{"id":9991,"date":"2011-12-27T07:06:47","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T07:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/?p=9991"},"modified":"2011-12-27T07:06:47","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T07:06:47","slug":"best-way-for-an-author-to-promote-book-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/publicity\/best-way-for-an-author-to-promote-book-giveaway\/","title":{"rendered":"Best way for an author to promote book giveaway?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bride's<\/a>This week’s Help This Hound question is from Anne Roos of South Lake Tahoe, CA:<\/p>\n

“I’m an author and I’ve received\u00a040 free books\u00a0from the publicist I used last year, 20 copies each of\u00a0\u00a0“The Musician’s Guide to Brides: How to Make Money Playing Weddings<\/a>” and “The Brides Guide to Musicians: Live Wedding Music Made Easy and Affordable<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

“They\u00a0were copies supplied without cost from the publisher to be sent out for review. Since I didn’t pay for them, I want to do a giveaway.<\/p>\n

“What’s\u00a0the most effective way to do a contest\/giveaway? Where do I post it to get it noticed?\u00a0Should it be a quiz with a question of the day? Should it be some kind of silly trivia? I just don’t know how to attract people to a little contest.<\/p>\n

\u00a0“Even when I had a big grand prize giveaway that I tried out about a year ago, it garnered very little interest. I’d love ideas from your Hounds on how to really attract attention with this.”<\/p>\n

Ideas are welcome below. If you have your own dilemma involving publicity or social media, email it to me.<\/a><\/p>\n

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“The Musician’s Guide to Brides: How to Make Money Playing Weddings” and “The Bride’s Guide to Musicians: Live Wedding Music Made Easy and Affordable”<\/p>\n

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This week’s Help This Hound question is from Anne Roos of South Lake Tahoe, CA: “I’m an author and I’ve received\u00a040 free books\u00a0from the publicist I used last year, 20 copies each of\u00a0\u00a0“The Musician’s Guide to Brides: How to Make Money Playing Weddings” and “The Brides Guide to Musicians: Live Wedding Music Made Easy and\u2026 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":20,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[691],"tags":[43,203,607,610],"class_list":["post-9991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-publicity","tag-book-marketing","tag-contests","tag-promotions","tag-publicist","entry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}