(May 6, 2015) Our first, international Goodreads Giveaway contest ended October 29, 2014. Within a week 20 copies of To Do the Deal, A Novel in Stories were wending their way to France, Great Britain, India, Poland, the USA of course, and other destinations far and not-so-near.

Unfortunately, a book we shipped to one of our Goodreads Giveaway winners in India never reached its intended destination. We’re hoping the book landed in the hands of some other reader, but if so, why hasn’t that person posted a review on  Goodreads, hmm? In any event, we shipped our India reader another copy, and it too disappeared (see hope, above). Just this week, a copy shipped six months ago to our Philippines-based Goodreads Giveaway winner was returned, “addressee unknown.” These shipping failures might explain why we’ve only seen a smattering of reviews from our international Goodreaders. But check it out: one of the reviews that materialized is in French! 

We are arranging for a hand-carry of To Do the Deal to our patient reader in Bangalore–when an Indian American friend makes a trip home in July–and we are making contact with our thwarted reader in Iloilo to ship her via Internet an ePub version. If you are a Goodreads Giveaway winner  and are still waiting for your copy of To Do the Deal, send an email to publisher@demitassepress.com and we’ll figure out a way to unite you with the book. When we do a deal, we want to keep our end of it!