Giveaways, are they worth the work? @ConstanceBretes #RomanceGems

Each month, I offer my subscribers a chance to enter a giveaway with anywhere from 4 authors to 14 authors giving away one of their romance only ebooks. I started doing this three years ago, and have found good success with it.

There are a couple of reasons I do this. It is a chance to help promote other authors and their romance genre and it provides an opportunity for me to be linked with other authors. So in essence, we are helping each other to promote our work.

I limit the giveaway to each author giving only one of their ebooks. The reason? Well, writing our books, it’s hard work. We have spent many days and hours holed up writing. It’s a lonely profession, and we authors do have to put food on the table just as every other American.

I have established some ‘rules’ over the three years in effort to improve the quality of the giveaway. My ‘rules’ are:

1.      Must be a romance ebook, any genre

2.      Quite a few of my subscribers are outside the US. Should offer an ebook in PDF, MOBI or EPUB. Paperbacks or hardcover books are an expense and you can offer it if you are willing to pay the postage to ship overseas or outside US.

3.      Help me to promote the books throughout the month. I used to promote to Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Booktropolis, now I’m down to Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

4.      The only requirement for entries are that they put their full name and email address in the giveaway. I don’t require things such as signing up for newsletters, following authors, etc. I keep the giveaway as just that…a giveaway.

5.      Authors must follow-up with winners to ensure the winners get their ebooks. Failure to do so will mean that the author will not be allowed in again.

In addition to putting the giveaway in my newsletter to my subscribers, I also place the newsletter on my website, with the rafflecopter in it so the general public can enter.

I average from 25 entries up to 200 entries each month. The Christmas holidays are the biggest for the giveaways.

In addition to other authors participating, I offer one of my books each month in the giveaway. This month, I’m offering Delayed Justice, my very first published romance.

So here are the two links:

https://www.constancebretes.com/news--things.html, my website for the current rafflecopter. Each book is listed with a blurb and the rafflecopter entry at the bottom.

http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/a1aff51a52/?, Direct link to the rafflecopter.

In this month's giveaway, (April Showers Romance Ebook Giveaway) my book, Delayed Justice, is being offered.

Can two former lovers set aside their differences and work together to bring a criminal to justice?

Five years ago, Sami Parker’s life was changed forever when she was injured in a bombing incident which left another young woman dead—a woman who happened to be the fiancée of Sheriff Makeeta Robertson, Sami’s former lover. Initially, Sami was a suspect in the crime, but the sheriff was forced to release her due to a lack of evidence. The town, convinced that she got away with murder, turned against her.

At last an arrest has been made and the sheriff needs Sami’s help to get a conviction, but can she trust him? Although wary and cautious, she wants to see this man brought to justice and wants to clear her own name once and for all. But the awakening feelings she has for Makeeta bring yet another problem. Then there’s the secret she’s kept for the last five years—one she may not be able to keep any longer, and one that may change the outcome of the trial.

Buy link:  https://www.amazon.com/Delayed-Justice-Constance-Bretes-ebook/dp/B00IGW2Z4I/

Don’t forget about the Romance Gems monthly Giveaway going on NOW!

If you haven't seen the details on this month's Easter Egg Scavenger Hunt you can check out all the information, including how to enter, on the "Giveaway" Tab at the top of the blog page.