Here’s a post I never thought I’d have to put up. With more frequency than before, winners are NOT coming back to see if they’ve won books. I guess in some ways it’s pretty natural. You go to many different blogs, comment on many of them and forget to go back to see if you’ve won.
Now some of you might ask, why don’t you just email them and tell them they’ve won? Well the obvious answer to that is I want them to come back to the blog. Frequently. Not just once or even twice.
So what I’ve decided to do since I’m getting a rash of winners neglecting to check back to see if they’ve won, starting this week, I’m going to start rewarding my frequent visitors when the winners don’t come back to collect. This is how it will work. A week after post announcing the winners, I will go back and find my most frequent commenter(s) and reward them the prize. If there is more than one, I’ll draw between them. Couldn’t be more simple, right? Let’s face it, faithful commenters are who all blogs are looking for and I’m going to try to find ways to show my appreciation.
Now if you’re one of the visitors who doesn’t check into the blog weekly and you’ve commented to win a book, I would suggest that you subscribe to The Season Blog RSS Feed, which is on the sidebar right at the top. I have my feeds delivered to my email. I love it because I never miss a post of my favourite blogs.
Published authors, I’ve sadly neglected Excerpt Thursdays. The reason I love this so much is because a good excerpt has always been able to sell a book to me. As authors, we have no or little say in our covers or our back cover copy. The words inside our books are truly ours. It is the story and our voice. If authors can hook a read with that, they’ve got a sale. And let’s face it, sales are what keep us in business. So saying all that, I’m resurrecting Excerpt Thursdays once again. If you’d like your book featured on Excerpt Thursdays, please email me at historicals at historicalromancereleases dot com.