June Releases to Add to Your WANT List

As a reader, today is my favorite and most anticipated day of Summer 2012. So many great books are being released today! Here's my list:

Free Book Promo That Actually Works

I posted a Goodreads Giveaway of my novel coming out in August, Surprisingly Supernatural, and have had wonderful results already. It's free to post a giveaway on Goodreads and they do all the work. They collect the entries and then send you the winners' info. You can set the time frame for whatever you want. It says it's only for ARC Print Copies but you can run your giveaway any time, so even on books already released.

I'm giving away two print copies of Surprisingly Supernatural and set the contest to end a bit after my release date. Before I posted a giveaway, only 6 people had marked the book as "to-read".

Results only 48 hrs after posting the giveaway (which will run for nearly 2 months):

• 43 people have marked Surprisingly Supernatural as "to-read" or "want to own"

• 177 readers have already entered the contest and requested a free copy (though only two will win)

• I've had 50 Goodreads friend requests

• I've received 2 emails from people who found my book through the giveaway and are requesting a copy for review on their legitimate blogs. (I checked to make sure they were legit)

All of this, which hopefully translates to sales, and I basically did NOTHING and all it's costing me is two print copies. *jumps up and down*

Get over there and post your own Giveaway! Annnnnnd...also enter mine :-)

Goodreads Book Giveaway

Surprisingly Supernatural

by S.J. Drum

Giveaway ends August 11, 2012.
See the giveaway details at Goodreads.

Enter to win

Win a Free Copy of Surprisingly Supernatural

Goodreads Book Giveaway

Surprisingly Supernatural

by S.J. Drum

Giveaway ends August 11, 2012.

See the giveaway details at Goodreads.

Enter to win

Tattooed Heroes...Here We Come!

A month away from the release of Sinful Southern Ink on 7-6-2012, part of Ellora's Cave's new Pricked line about tattooed heroes. 30 people already have it marked as "to-read" on Goodreads! Yay! 

Abigail Hart moved to Clifton, Tennessee to escape the stigma of being the daughter of a murderer. To reinvent herself, she left her old name and terrible childhood memories to rot along with the shitty trailer she’d once called home.

When her violent past catches up to her, there’s only one person Abigail can trust with the truth. Too bad he demands her heart—and her body—in the bargain.

Jed Weston is a tall, hard, country boy with dangerous cowboy charm and piercings in all the right places. As Abigail’s partner in her tattoo and piercing shop, he’s kept things between them on a strictly professional level. Seeing her vulnerable, wary, and hurting, opens his eyes to the woman he’s seen only as a friend for so long.

Jed’s jealous ex-girlfriend, a nosy reporter, and a potential father-in-law on death row won’t keep him from the woman who makes him hard at the very sight of her, the woman who provokes every protective instinct within him. Nothing will keep Jed Weston from catching—and keeping—the woman he loves.