Jeffrey Michael's Blog - Posts Tagged "signed-book"
A bird in the hand ...
is worth a lot more than two in the bush! :)
OK, I'm speaking figuratively here with regards to having the printed copy of my book in hand. I never realized just how excited I'd be to finally have a printed book in my hand with MY name on the cover. Now I'm anxious to move forward with the promotions and other things to market my book. I’m hoping to get all that going so I can concentrate more on the new books I’m writing, one of which is the second in the AS&M series.
I’ve had the ISBN assigned to this book since well before the holidays but when I try to enter it into the ‘give away’ tab on Goodreads, it says that my ISBN isn’t in their database. I don’t know if it’s part of the whole change to accessing multiple databases or what but I’m not going to wait. So I’m going to post an announcement both here and in all the forums that I’m a member of about a giveaway.
Yes, that’s right I’m giving away 5 signed copies of my book between today, March 1st, and March 16th. So everybody who sends me an e-mail will have their name thrown into a hat and I’ll pull 5 random winners from the pool. I’ll contact each person individually to get a mailing address and find out how they’d like me to sign their respective copies. Shipping is on me!
So post in my blog, send me an e-mail through Goodreads, send a carrier pigeon, hire a sky-writer, phone a friend … no, wait, that won’t work but you get the gist. Get your name to me with a way to get you a book.
OK, I'm speaking figuratively here with regards to having the printed copy of my book in hand. I never realized just how excited I'd be to finally have a printed book in my hand with MY name on the cover. Now I'm anxious to move forward with the promotions and other things to market my book. I’m hoping to get all that going so I can concentrate more on the new books I’m writing, one of which is the second in the AS&M series.
I’ve had the ISBN assigned to this book since well before the holidays but when I try to enter it into the ‘give away’ tab on Goodreads, it says that my ISBN isn’t in their database. I don’t know if it’s part of the whole change to accessing multiple databases or what but I’m not going to wait. So I’m going to post an announcement both here and in all the forums that I’m a member of about a giveaway.
Yes, that’s right I’m giving away 5 signed copies of my book between today, March 1st, and March 16th. So everybody who sends me an e-mail will have their name thrown into a hat and I’ll pull 5 random winners from the pool. I’ll contact each person individually to get a mailing address and find out how they’d like me to sign their respective copies. Shipping is on me!
So post in my blog, send me an e-mail through Goodreads, send a carrier pigeon, hire a sky-writer, phone a friend … no, wait, that won’t work but you get the gist. Get your name to me with a way to get you a book.
Giveaway Mania!
OK, here's a second post in two days. Can you believe it?!
Well I'm kind of excited. I wasn't sure about this giveaway thing and had some issues with the GoodReads database with regards to the printed version ISBN. But I wanted to give away some books so I set up an event and invited everybody in my friends list at the time. I only got a few people to say they were interested in a free signed copy. I didn't want to have two different giveaways so when I finally got things straightened out with the database it was around Tuesday last week and I set up a standard Giveaway with the same end date as the event I'd set up a couple of weeks earlier.
To say that I was surprised at the amount of interest would be an understatement. Nearly 800 entries were in the pool in a bit over 7 days. I've contacted each of the winners to see how they'd like the salutation addressed. The event I set up ends tonight (miscue on my part) and I'll be contacting each of those winners as well.
I'm flattered and surprised at all the attention this has given my first effort. But now instead of just writing, I have to also look at marketing, promotions, distribution, etc. Oh yeah, I also have those two books in process I talked about yesterday too. Of course this all has to happen in my spare time because I have a day job that pays very well and I can't afford to just concentrate on my writing. lol Yep a busy me but I've always liked challenges.
Well I'm kind of excited. I wasn't sure about this giveaway thing and had some issues with the GoodReads database with regards to the printed version ISBN. But I wanted to give away some books so I set up an event and invited everybody in my friends list at the time. I only got a few people to say they were interested in a free signed copy. I didn't want to have two different giveaways so when I finally got things straightened out with the database it was around Tuesday last week and I set up a standard Giveaway with the same end date as the event I'd set up a couple of weeks earlier.
To say that I was surprised at the amount of interest would be an understatement. Nearly 800 entries were in the pool in a bit over 7 days. I've contacted each of the winners to see how they'd like the salutation addressed. The event I set up ends tonight (miscue on my part) and I'll be contacting each of those winners as well.
I'm flattered and surprised at all the attention this has given my first effort. But now instead of just writing, I have to also look at marketing, promotions, distribution, etc. Oh yeah, I also have those two books in process I talked about yesterday too. Of course this all has to happen in my spare time because I have a day job that pays very well and I can't afford to just concentrate on my writing. lol Yep a busy me but I've always liked challenges.
And the winners are ...
I held an event for everybody on my friends list for a giveaway of 5 signed paperbacks. The drawing was held this morning and the winners of the drawing are:
Graeme Stokes
Katy Sozaeva
Penelope (I HEART BOOKS)
Zulma Gonzalez
Pancakemib
Congratulations to each of you and I'll be contacting you individually for mailing addresses and how you'd like your salutation. I hope to get all the books mailed off this weekend so you should be seeing the book sometime next week. Oh, yes. One other things, something that I added as a last minute thing, I'm including 2 book marks for each winner.
Again, congratulations to the 5 winners and I'll be in touch soon.
Graeme Stokes
Katy Sozaeva
Penelope (I HEART BOOKS)
Zulma Gonzalez
Pancakemib
Congratulations to each of you and I'll be contacting you individually for mailing addresses and how you'd like your salutation. I hope to get all the books mailed off this weekend so you should be seeing the book sometime next week. Oh, yes. One other things, something that I added as a last minute thing, I'm including 2 book marks for each winner.
Again, congratulations to the 5 winners and I'll be in touch soon.
