Free paperback contest

I made mention of sending out emails for a contest in a previous post but realized I didn't go into detail on the contest. Luckily for you, as I'm writing this I have zero followers and I'm probably talking to myself for the foreseeable future. ;)

Here's the deal with the contest, quick and simple:

1. We're directing people to our website to sign up to win a free paperback copy of Paranormal America. ($11.99 list price)
2. People are asked to give their Name and Email Address to enter the drawing. 
3. The email confirmation they receive, asks them to return to the page (link provided in the email) and share with their Facebook friends. The incentive is that for each friend they have sign up, they will get their name added to the drawing for an extra chance and there is no limit to the number of times they can do so.
4. The drawing will be held on November 1, 2013.

We've posted this on our Facebook page, in the top 20 most populated cities via Craigslist ads, and through email to the authors involved in the book.

The initial results were very slow -- for the first two or three days we didn't have a single entry -- but we're now up to 27 people entered in the contest. 

I'll admit, that seems very low to me for the amount of work we've put into spreading the word. I figured people would jump on a chance to win a free book.

Seems much more difficult to get email addresses than I expected - maybe I'm just a sucker and give out my email too easily since I can throw one of my alternate emails at these sorts of things. Perhaps a free book on Kindle or Paperback just isn't enough value for someone to risk getting spam. 

That reminds me, I should probably go back now and add on the form that we won't ever sell their email and it would only be used to promote future books in this series...

Live and learn!