Amazon Giveaways: Good Promotions

There are many ways Amazon Giveaways will help sell books.

Amazon Giveaways:

1. The author will gain followers. In order to enter the giveaway the reader has to follow the author of the book. Now, they can always unfollow but I doubt if many readers do unfollow the author. The people who follow the author will be notified when there is a new release.
2. Gaining sales for your book is always a benefit even though the author purchased said books.
3. Having a giveaway will send readers to your books page. They will have a chance to read the blurb and take a look inside your book.
4. Any author can create a giveaway. It does not have to be created by the publisher.
5. Comparing the cost of most other promotions, this one is very little. The cost is dependent on the number of books that are given away.

Goodreads giveaways:

1. The cost of the giveaway is now prohibitive. It used to be the cost of the number of paperbacks the author wanted to giveaway.
2. This giveaway might be good for the author who has over one thousand friends. In that case the book will be shown to many people and the friends who don’t win might buy your book.
3. Unlike Bookbub giveaways which also cost a lot of money, there are no sales statistics yet for the Goodreads giveaway.
4. If you want to try a Goodreads giveaway, first try to increase your friends.

Bookbub giveaways:

1. Must create an author profile on Bookbub to have a giveaway.
2. I’ve heard via the author grapevine an author needs one thousand followers for Bookbub to let you create a giveaway.
3. The statistics are advertised upfront on Bookbub and the cost varies by the price of the book and the genre.

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Pastor Jack Douglas resigns his ministry after a traumatic event and hikes across America. In North Dakota, he finds work on an oil rig until a violent turn of events forces him to seek seclusion in the Alaskan wilderness where he’s stalked by the mythical Amaroq wolf.

In Nome, Jack takes a job on a king crab fishing boat where he continues to struggle with his past tragedies while fighting feelings for the proprietor of a rustic inn, a beautiful Inuit woman, Qaniit.

A man from the past perpetrates a catastrophic event that will once again challenge Jack’s faith. Will Jack survive or will God forsake him once more?