{"id":122,"date":"2017-05-01T20:09:47","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T20:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/?p=122"},"modified":"2017-05-01T20:09:47","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T20:09:47","slug":"the-fifth-prophet-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/?p=122","title":{"rendered":"The Fifth Prophet giveaway"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thank you to all those who participated in the giveaway of e-book copies of my metaphysical sci-fi novel, The Fifth Prophet<\/em>.\u00a0 If you were not one of the winners, please consider reading a copy anyway.\u00a0 If you did win, I would be very happy to hear your comments and thoughts.\u00a0 An honest review would also help a struggling indie author a great deal.<\/p>\n

A confession and admission of marketing confusion might amuse you.\u00a0 I first tried the Amazon giveaway and posted a link on my website, thefifthprophet.com.\u00a0 The giveaway was to the first five participants, BUT that meant that Amazon would not publicize it.\u00a0 So … after a year of no takers (obviously nobody was wandering over to my website), and constantly renewing the giveaway I pushed another radio button.\u00a0\u00a0 This time I chose “random” and for some silly reason chose the odds at 1 out of 200!\u00a0 It actually worked!\u00a0 Except that I was trying to giveaway the books and it timed out after 455 participants and only 2 books given out.\u00a0 So, finally I renewed with odds of 1 in 50 and 3 books zoomed out into the world in two days.<\/p>\n

I’ve learned my lessons.\u00a0 The next giveaway, and there will be one, will be more efficient.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 BTW, are any of you “following” me?\u00a0 I’d love to hear from you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thank you to all those who participated in the giveaway of e-book copies of my metaphysical sci-fi novel, The Fifth Prophet.\u00a0 If you were not one of the winners, please consider reading a copy anyway.\u00a0 If you did win, I would be very happy to hear your comments and thoughts.\u00a0 An honest review would also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}