Fresh Baked Pretzels!

Haapppy Friday!

We made it through another week!

Want to play a guessing game?

It's easy--just guess where this photo was taken. Go on, guess! I'll let you know the answer on Monday!

Can you tell I'm on a low carb diet? LOL!

I would kill for one of these pretzels right now!

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Untethered Realms is hosting the first of its monthly contests today. I'm sure Mary Pax will be making it fun and easy - with a great prize at the end!

Check it out HERE!

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Curious about orbs? They play a part in my novella.

I'm talking about them over on Partners in ParanormYA.

Check it out HERE.

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And speaking of prizes...

I'm still having two autographed paperback giveaways. One on GoodReads and one rafflecopter.

The GoodReads giveaway is HERE.

The FaceBook Rafflecopter is HERE.

Want to enter the rafflecopter? Just tweet or retweet one of the provided tweets or make up your own. You're on the honor system, so I won't ask you to paste the URL - that's such a pain!

Just tweet one of these:

RT plz! Murder and Ghosts and Mayhem, Oh My! Givin’ Up The Ghost http://tinyurl.com/ctnnn4b

#tween #ebook #UnRealms

 

An awesome #tween #read Givin' Up The Ghost, a cozy paranormal mystery. Get it on your #Kindle #ebook now http://tinyurl.com/ctnnn4b

a Rafflecopter giveaway

A Little Fun With Tigers and Napalot

How about a little fun?

The Cheyenne Mountain Zoo allows you to get a little up close and personal with some of the animals. Not too close, mind you. But close enough.

Did this tiger...

A) Throw me his toy

B) Splash me

C) Scratch me

D) Spray me

 

That's all I'm going to say :)

What do you think?

Leave your guess in the comments, I'll post the answer on Friday!

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Also....

I'm on Myndi Shafer's blog today.

I even wrote a spur of the moment haiku about napping.

Hope you can stop by and check it out!

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And...

Thanks to all who tweeted and promoted me through Writers 4 Writers. I'll post the results soon.

Still having a Rafflecopter and Facebook giveaway HERE.

or

Rafflecopter HERE.

And...

A GoodReads giveaway HERE.

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W4WS Most Wanted Detained!

Most Wanted!

Reward!

Gwen "The Rogue Writer" Gardner

 has been detained as a "person of interest" by
Writers 4 Writers.

They now have her in custody and she
needs you to spring her!

The cost of her ransom bail?

 

Tweets,

Retweets and

Facebook Shares.

As many as you want or can.

The loot is hidden below. Grab some.

Hurry! And Thank You So Much!
(and I hear Melissa needs sprung, too)

Tweets to copy and paste:


For Monday and Tuesday GUTG is FREE:

RT plz! Snuggle on down with Givin’ Up The Ghost. #FREE 2/18 – 2/19 a cozy read http://tinyurl.com/ctnnn4b #Kindle #GivUpTheGhost #UnRealms #W4WS

RT plz! Murder and Ghosts and Mayhem, Oh My! Givin’ Up The Ghost FREE 2/18 – 2/19 http://tinyurl.com/ctnnn4b #ebook #GivUpTheGhost #W4WS #WS4U

RT plz! Attn bookworms, cozy down with Givin’ Up The Ghost for #FREE ! 2/18 – 2/19 http://tinyurl.com/ctnnn4b #ebook #YANinjas #W4WS #WS4U

For Wednesday and Beyond:

RT plz! Snuggle down with Givin’ Up The Ghost. A cozy paranormal mystery http://tinyurl.com/ctnnn4b #GivUpTheGhost #ebook #UnRealms #W4WS #WS4U


RT plz! Murder and Ghosts and Mayhem, Oh My! Givin’ Up The Ghost http://tinyurl.com/ctnnn4b #ebook #UnRealms #W4WS #GivUpTheGhost #WS4U

RT plz! Attn bookworms, cozy down with Givin’ Up The Ghost, a cozy paranormal YA mystery http://tinyurl.com/ctnnn4b #ebook #kindle #W4WS #WS4U

Easy Retweets:
Retweets are easy. Just go to your
Twitter page and enter any of these hashtags in the search bar.
Click Retweet on any Givin' Up The Ghost tweets.

#GivUpTheGhost
#W4WS
#WS4U


Tweets for Giveaways:

RT plz! FREE autographed paperback giveaway of Givin’ Up The Ghost on GoodReads. Open to 10 countries. http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/44462-givin-up-the-ghost #GoodReads #FREE

RT plz! 1000 Tweet giveaway  1 signed paperback of Givin’ Up The Ghost per every 100 tweets!  http://bit.ly/TQ4AQr   #W4WS #GivUpTheGhost

Rafflecopter:
a Rafflecopter giveaway

Promoting: Amazon, GoodReads and PIP Newsletter

Amazon

You might recognize some of the books on this list as belonging to authors you know. That's because some of us YA indie authors teamed up to do an event. Check it out!

Best Sellers in Fantasy Series
Top 100 Free
December 15, 2012


1. Forged by Greed (The Forged Series)
Angela Orlowski-Peart
4.4 out of 5 stars (25)
Auto-delivered wirelessly
Free

2. Ruby Blue (The Ruby Blue Series)

Julie Cassar
4.8 out of 5 stars (104)
Auto-delivered wirelessly
Free









3. Wicked Sense (The Singularity Series, #1)

Fabio Bueno

4.5 out of 5 stars (31)

Auto-delivered wirelessly

Free

4. Neverlove (Shadow Jumpers)

Angela Brown
4.9 out of 5 stars (8)
Auto-delivered wirelessly
Free










5. The Soulkeepers (The Soulkeepers Series)
G. P. Ching
4.3 out of 5 stars (290)
Auto-delivered wirelessly
Free








 6. Givin' Up The Ghost (An Indigo Eady Paranormal Mystery)

Gwen Gardner
4.7 out of 5 stars (3)
Auto-delivered wirelessly
Free












Turns out, giving your book away for free pushes it further up the list, however fleeting.

Here are some of the deets for Givin' Up The Ghost:

Downloads

US 1093
UK    66
DE    15
ES      1
CA     2

    1177 Total downloads for 12/14 - 12/15.

This was a definite improvement over the Black Friday freebie when I had 679 downloads for two days. But the Gifts Aren't Only From Santa event was a bit more high profile, and it helps when you've teamed up and are promoting each others books as well.

I have to say it - I suck at promoting. I find it really hard to promote / push / pimp myself. I'd be the vacuum cleaner saleswoman at your door saying, "You don't want to buy this vacuum, do you?" Honestly, I'm better behind the scenes. Give me something to organize and lists to make and things to check off. You know, books to write, that sort of thing.


But I have seen a direct correlation between those who are really good at promoting themselves and sales.

So what happened after the promotion?

The day after the promotion, on 12/16, I went down to #281,289 in the Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store.

On 12/17, I sold 2 ebooks and my ranking went back up to 79,162 in the Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store.

And now I'm back up to 148,236. Probably more by now. But I had started out over 400,000.

I'm thinking none of the numbers makes sense, but hoping that the giveaways get my book more exposure.

GoodReads

I had a giveaway on GoodReads of two autographed prints books. It's really fun to watch the number of people entering to win my book go up everyday. (They want my book!!! WooHoo!!!). It's over now, and here are the details:

Entered to Win: 969
Added to TBR:   499

PIP Newsletter

Coming in 2013

Because Angela Brown and I don't have enough to do
(Sarcasm? Why no, what makes you think that?), we're starting a
Partners in ParanormYA newsletter.

You can sign up using the link in my sidebar to find out the
latest news and other awesome stuff we're up to.

If you enjoyed our blog tour, you'll enjoy our newsletter! 

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How do you feel about promoting?

How much is too much?