Doing a Goodreads Giveaway – Guest Post…

If you are a self-published author, you know that promoting your book is a critical function of the process. A book give-away is a great idea as this article mentions.

I have been reading Goodreads for Authors: How To Use Goodreads To Promote Your Books, a very useful guide for book marketing. There is a chapter in this book about using Goodreads to promote your book using giveaways. One thing the author mentions is to get print copies of your book made for the giveaways.

I am considering these options for my eBook, Better Blogging with Photography (see on my sidebar). especially with the upcoming holidays. I am looking into Create Space as my option for printing a few copies of my book.

What good ideas for book promotion do you have?

Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog

image

We’re heading rapidly into the holiday season, so who’d like a present?

A giveaway is not a present.

Well, not unless you’re giving it to everyone that enters (or visits your blog depending on the wording).

A giveaway is a raffle, or a draw, where an advertised number of people win a prize by being drawn at random from all the entries received. Most countries have rules on what exactly constitutes a raffle, or a draw, and the fine line between it being a gentle bit of fun, and a form of gambling which requires a licence.

I’m not going to go into what those laws are, although there are some very good posts around on the internet to help you ensure you aren’t straying into vice. Most of them I found through The Story Reading Ape reporting them, thank you, Ape … mwah! Rafflecopter has a very useful set…

View original post 726 more words

2 thoughts on “Doing a Goodreads Giveaway – Guest Post…

What is YOUR perspective? (Please note that when you visit, like, comment on, and share my blog posts, you are agreeing with the storage and handling of your data by WordPress. My privacy statement is in the above menu).

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Google+ photo

You are commenting using your Google+ account. Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.
https://secondwindleisure.com/2016/11/13/doing-a-goodreads-giveaway-guest-post/
secondwindleisure.com
crawl=CC-MAIN-2018-51
98109
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:36XVKPLFAKWT7E6XAT3N363BPBFWSULS
<urn:uuid:1aff20cd-b89c-4300-a9b0-8885864f9127>
2018-12-15T20:53:34Z
192.0.78.25
text/html
sha1:IKRCOAMRC576HGMGDAQA22JCLCWXHFZT
<urn:uuid:c4c568a5-6467-4e9b-b6cb-8d56dfaf1646>
https://secondwindleisure.com/2016/11/13/doing-a-goodreads-giveaway-guest-post/
response
<urn:uuid:d3150539-9b43-4c05-ae16-1e8eec2fdcc5>
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-51
publisher: Common Crawl
description: Wide crawl of the web for December 2018
operator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)
hostname: ip-10-150-135-54.ec2.internal
software: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)
robots: checked via crawler-commons 0.11-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)
format: WARC File Format 1.1
conformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/