Our Goodreads Giveaway has ended, with 297 entrants! Thank you all so much for jumping in. Winners are chosen through Goodreads and supplied to me, and they are: Dan H., of Kansas, Gary M., of Illinois, Nancy C. of Rhode Island and Adrian P., of Tennessee! You all will be receiving your autographed copy of UNMASKING PAULIE BINGHAM shortly by U.S. Mail!
If you didn’t win, there’s always Amazon, LOL. Reviews are starting to come in, and so far, so great!
Stay tuned for two more cyber happenings in the coming weeks: Indie Ink Blog Hop (beginning July 25th) will feature all of Anne Carter’s mysteries and romances, and her Lady Amber Blog Tour is will be bounding out of the station on August 1st. Just wait until you see the swag / prizes! I promise you something new.
Until then… these snippets from reviews on Amazon:
“The author has handled the characters in this book beautifully. The emotion ride for both of them was so evident. I could feel the vibes coming out of the page with each one I turned.”
“I must say, I am very impressed with the way Ms. Carter writes and kudos for taking on what I think is such a difficult subject matter. It’s not a story you could ever imagine and you just need to read it to understand why.”
“Ms. Carter steps out of the box to weave an unconventional romance with complex characters and complicated lives. I look forward to the next book to find out who ‘did it’, but more so where all the characters end up. Will my assumptions match hers?”
“This wasn’t a ‘normal’ boy meets girl & falls in love story. It was so much more than I expected…. [a] superb piece of art!”
The criteria for increasing your odds of winning a book are rather vague, except for the one about reviewing the books you’ve won. It doesn’t say you have to like the books, or even how long your reviews should be. We aren’t professional critics, and yes, everyone does have his or her own style of writing! Do the people who donate the books for the giveaways even have any say in who wins? Maybe it does increase your odds if you have reviewed all the books you’ve won, but I have to think much randomness goes into selecting the winners. Many enter, but few are chosen. If “the powers that be” really wanted us to be able to truly compete for the books available, they would list specifics of what we should do to increase our chance of winning.
Perry, I have to admit that I at first thought you comment might be spam. But clearly, you’ve given the raffle/prize winning a great deal of thought.
First, Goodreads “will collect interest in the book, and select winners at our discretion. Our algorithm uses member data to match interested members with each book. whose names are then forwarded to the contest-holder.” We have no say in who wins.
Winners are encouraged but not required to review the books they win.
That being said, I have read reader discussions that speculate about Goodreads’ algorithm that uses members’ data in the selection process. You are correct, it is unclear. Some say that readers with a higher number of posted reviews in the same genre as the prize book are weighed more heavily. I couldn’t say one way or the other.
I hope this information is useful to you. Sorry you didn’t win! More contests will come for this book soon.
Cheers!
Winners are randomly chosen by Goodreads. To be a winner is to be lucky. I’ve entered many giveaways and haven’t won yet. Goodreads sends the person hosting the giveaway the names and addresses of the winners.
Winners are randomly chosen by Goodreads. To be a winner is to be lucky. I’ve entered many giveaways and haven’t won yet. Goodreads sends the person hosting the giveaway the names and addresses of the winners.