Good Reads Book Giveaways

Guest Post by Joelle Anthony
Here you go. http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/5228-restoring-harmony
Giveaway on GoodReads.com
Last week, we talked about book giveaways in general. Today, we have a case study on book giveaways on Goodreads.com. Thanks to Joelle Anthony for this guest post.

On Your Site OR On GoodReads?
Book giveaways have become a great way for authors to draw people to their [...]

Book Giveaway Contests

Random Acts

WHAT: Random Acts of Publicity 2010
WHEN: September 7-10

Last year, I declared the week after Labor Day, as Random Acts of Publicity Week. It’s coming back this year on September 7-10. Here’s a quick summary from last year and we’ll update it with lots of fun this year!
Random Acts of Publicity 2011
Are you like me? [...]

Give Books New Life

Why you Should Promote Your Back-List Books
Author Alexis O’Neill has just released a video for one of her back-list titles. Most authors promote heavily newly released books, but don’t do much for titles a couple years old. I’ve asked Alexis to explain why she’s focusing on her back-list books and give us a few tips [...]

Online Contest for Book Promotion

With the PR Notes Wednesday, I’d love to answer questions. If I don’t know the answer, I’ll go and find answers. Email your questions.
Creating a Contest as Book Promotion
Mary Nethery took the time to ask this book promotion question:

PR Starts with Websites: Keywords

PR Notes: Start with Optimized Websites
The first thing you should do for book publicity promotion is a website (or a blog). I know. Most of you have one.
But let’s do a check to see if it’s the most effective it could be.
1) Put your name into a search engine. Great. Your website/blog came up first [...]

10 Social Media Goals for Author Promotion

Twitter, Facebook, Good Reads and More
When and where should authors use social media? I recently read a blog post about how businesses are using social media. Here, I go through these 10 purposes and muse about how authors might use social media for the same reasons.

Random Social

Random Acts of Publicity: Social Media
We’ve all heard about the social media and many are experimenting with doing book publicity via these channels. What is really possible?

Random Links

Random Acts of Publicity: Links
Why should you care about linking to a friend’s book? Google. And other search engines. Ever wondered how to get your page to show up on the #1 position on a Google search query?

Random Reviews

Random Acts of Publicity: Reviews
Reviews add credibility: they are the marketer’s tool of using a testimonial. The twist on Amazon and other sites is that celebrity testimonials don’t matter as much as