{"id":22354,"date":"2015-07-16T00:01:38","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T07:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=22354"},"modified":"2015-07-16T00:01:38","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T07:01:38","slug":"goodreads-giveaway-results-wow-a-lot-of-people-want-a-copy-of-wrestling-with-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/goodreads-giveaway-results-wow-a-lot-of-people-want-a-copy-of-wrestling-with-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodreads Giveaway Results: Wow. A Lot of People Want a Copy of “Wrestling with God”"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Barbara<\/a>
“Wrestling with God” on display at A Great Good Place for Books<\/a> in Montclair, Oakland, California. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Barbara Falconer Newhall<\/em><\/p>\n

Wow. A total of 685 people clicked “Enter” during this week’s Goodreads<\/a> Giveaway. I was giving away three copies of “Wrestling with God,” and people had four days or so to enter the giveaway — no strings attached, just click on the “Enter” box and let the Goodreads algorithms decide who wins the three free copies.<\/p>\n

Bottom line, the Goodreads Giveaway looks like a very easy, inexpensive way to\u00a0publicize\u00a0a book. Snagging some attention from traditional media — radio, magazines, newspapers — is expensive, time-consuming and chancy. The giveaway cost only the price of the book plus shipping and now 685 people know about my book.<\/p>\n

I have the names of the three winners and I’ll be sending them their autographed copies asap. A nice touch — one of the winners is back east, one in the Midwest and one on the West Coast — a nice geographical spread. I like that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"Barbara<\/a><\/p>\n

Wow. Success. A total of 685 people clicked “Enter” to win a copy of “Wrestling with God” during this week’s Goodreads Giveaway. Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,52],"tags":[1512,1513,49,1501,1514,197,53],"class_list":["post-22354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-on-writing-reading","category-the-writing-room","tag-book-promotion","tag-book-publicity","tag-goodreads","tag-goodreads-giveaway","tag-readers","tag-the-writing-room-2","tag-wrestling-with-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}