For the Readers
Congrats to Leslie M. and Harley D. of California. They are the winners of my Magic Shop Goodreads giveaway! I hope to send out the two signed copies this weekend. I’m excited to see what you think.
For the Authors
I’ve done giveaways on various blogs before, but this was my first time doing it on Goodreads. I’ve always seen a little spike in traffic or interest when I’ve had a giveaway going on, but nothing like when I did it through Goodreads. Interestingly enough, I had a set of circumstances that, coupled with this, have driven my best sales month ever.
Here are the stats:
I ran the contest from May 19 – Jun 19, 2014. Summer had started, and readership seemed to slow down, for sure.
I offered two signed copies of The Magic Shop to residents of the USA.
1077 people requested to be part of the giveaway.
Of those 1077, 605 have put the book on their “to-read” Goodreads shelf.
Out of happenstance I was messing around with my smashwords account during this giveaway, and I put the book to free for a day or so (I’ve found it hard to get reviewers to leave reviews on Apple iBooks and other e-tailors besides Amazon) and thought this might help. Well, someone on Amazon had requested a price match, and Amazon made it free. I got 1400 + downloads in just a few days (more than double what I had gotten during my KDP Select free days last year). I suppose it must be related to the categories I have it associated with now.
I’ve since returned the book to the normal price, and I have seen double the sales. I was lucky to have the circumstances line up the way they did.
There’s a quick update on the book and the giveaway. Now, I can go back to obsessing about the upcoming NBA draft, and how the Utah Jazz will fare. 🙂
Here’s a quick picture of where The Magic Shop ranks right now on one of its categories:
