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This month, I'm sending an extra email because I was accepted into a promotional giveaway. I would have mentioned it in my regular newsletter, but 1. The promotion wasn't running then, and 2. I didn't know if I was going to be accepted.
So you get to hear from me an extra time this month. But that means free books for you!
Earlier this year, I signed up for BookFunnel, which has been a pretty great service for giving out my free ebooks to newsletter subscribers. (You got yours, right?)
BookFunnel is also a great platform for joining up with other authors in similar genres to offer bundle promotions.
Last week, I did my first one with The Friday Night Date Dress for Sweet/Clean Romance (welcome to my new readers who joined from that promotion), and this week, I’m doing my first one for Fantasy.
The reason it took so long for me to jump on the “promo bundle” bandwagon is because I’m picky.
Until now, I’ve rarely recommended a book to you that I haven’t read myself. And I wanted to make sure I maintained that trust in the type of promotion I joined. So I waited until the right one came along, and lucked out with two good ones in the same month.
I chose the Summer Solstice Fantasy Bookfest promotion for two reasons:
First, I have a passing knowledge of the organizer, Derek Murphy, and his high standards when it comes to his own work, as well as his business model and passion for helping other authors succeed. (The “a rising tide raises all boats” philosophy.)
Second, Derek vetted the titles joining the promotion to make sure they were of decent quality, so hopefully that means you won’t have to take a chance on a title written by someone who couldn’t pass a high school English exam.
He actually had some minimum platform requirements that I didn’t meet, so I emailed him and feel privileged that he ended up including The Waterboy as part of the promotion.
That being said, I have not personally investigated any of the titles in the promo, so please do your own homework.
Here’s What’s Up For Grabs:
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102 book downloads in the urban fantasy or epic fantasy genres
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A $100 Amazon Gift Card. (Thanks, Derek!) You gotta dive deep on the page to find this giveaway, so keep hunting until you get there!
The only “catch” is that you’ll have to sign up for the newsletter lists for the books’ authors in order to get the books. You can unsubscribe any time, of course, but if you like the book enough to check it out, then you might like what the author has to say, too.
Here’s the thing: 102 books is a lot, and may be too many titles (not to mention newsletters!) for any but the most voracious reader to pile on at once.
(Can you say intimidating?)
But this is a great opportunity to stock up on a couple handfuls of amazing fantasy reads. Choose 10-20 (whatever number wouldn’t overwhelm you on both your e-reader and for emails in your inbox) that stand out to you. You might find your next 10-20 favourite authors. :-)
The covers alone are worth ogling the giveaway page for a good ten minutes. So much pretty eye candy!
You may have noticed that my contribution, The Waterboy, is already perma-free for my newsletter subscribers, a.k.a, you! But the other books on this promo are only available for free from now until June 30.
Well, if you’re reading this past the deadline, go to this post with the list, because some of them will be available for free for longer. These are the ones that are perma-free like mine. How do you tell? Sorry, I don’t know. Just click and try them, I guess?
Check out the books here:
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