Let’s face it, authors are the biggest readers (we call it research) and love reading books as much or more than writing them. More importantly, authors are always looking for ways to promote their book to an attentive audience. With this in mind, and a touch of crazy, NovelRank would like to start doing a monthly book giveaway, supported by books donated by authors like you who track their books on NovelRank.
Update: June 2010
Due to overwhelming response, it may take up to a year for your book to be given away. Books donated to the giveaway will most likely be part of the monthly giveaway, but may be used in other multi-book giveaways in an effort to promote more books, faster.
Why would NovelRank do this?
NovelRank should be more than a one-trick pony, as some of the unique blog posts have aspired to do. To that end, I would love to also share and promote author’s books in new and unique ways whenever possible. With some interest already from Rebecca Connell, Cami Checketts, Lisette Brodey, Cheryl Kaye Tardif, and Mike Dauplaise (with TitleTown Publishing), I think that this idea is ready to move forward.
What’s in it for me?
Free promotion of your book? Isn’t that what every author wants? Your book would be promoted to twitter, facebook, and the NovelRank blog, and all the while being adored by hundreds. On January 5th, NovelRank had ~100 unique visitors a day. On February 5th, this doubled to 200+ unique visitors. January 2010 had over 11,500 visits to the site. As you continue to spread the word, this will continue to grow.
Seems too good to be true; what does NovelRank risk?
Cold. Hard. Cash. Seriously, I’ll be paying out of my own pocket to package and ship (anywhere in the world) the winner their copy of the monthly giveaway book. I also have to store all the books authors send to me until their time comes.
What’s the next step?
Contact me at giveaway@novelrank.com and let me know you would like to donate a book for the monthly NovelRank giveaway (not saying you must, but a signed copy would be pretty fantastic). I’ll send you my address so you can send along your promotion/donation. Make sure you include in the email a link to your book on NovelRank so I know what to expect and I also know it is not a random spammer trying to get my home address. Books will be promoted in a ‘first come most likely to serve sooner’ fashion, meaning that the sooner you send the book(s), the sooner they will be promoted. I’ll try and vary the book genres when possible, thus why it is not ‘first serve’.
Anything else?
Not really. Oh, one last thing: I’m actually a slow reader because I’m busy (guess with what), so I won’t be reading and reviewing every book before it is promoted. If you are looking for a review, I suggest LLBookReview.com.
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Jasmine, I’ll be in touch later this year, I think it is a good idea!
I could donate either the pdf or epub.
Jasmine,
Never considered that… In .pdf, .epub, or what format would it be delivered in?
Can authors give away ebook copies or do they have to be print?
By the way, I fell in love with that photo on flickr a while ago and opted to license it from Getty Images for this post and a few other places because I really loved it.