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Questions for Readers/Authors
I’m working on my next Last Call Europe book Dog Sled at the moment, after that it’s back to the Hades Helmet world and beyond that Tartan and *holds head* soooo many project. I still have to write the next Pixie book (there’s like 5 books in the series) anyway but something tugged at my mind now that the LRC Awards are over. Promo and the impact on authors in contests and sales.
I have questions for you wonderful, lovely, patient readers. Answer a few questions and you could win a mini cooler bag of goodies and books that I got at the Authors After Dark Con and chocolate!
So here goes:
1) How much promo is too much? Example: Seeing an author’s name and promo for the same book every day on every loop you belong to -vs- Seeing an author’s name once and promo for certain time period.
2) How do you hear about info about your fav author(s)? Website? Newsletter? Publisher site? Yahoo group? Facebook? My Space? Ning? Twitter?
3) How do you connect with your fav author(s)? On a blog? Website? Yahoo/Google Groupe? Facebook? My Space? Twitter?
4) Do you vote when your author is up for an award or best book? (If voting is allowed)
5) Do reviews sway whether or not you’ll buy a book?
6) If an author wins an award, does that make you want to check them out if you haven’t already done so?
7) Do you read reviews? What if the review was from a big name author?
8 ) Does a publisher’s reputation make you want to buy books from them?
9) How much does cover art play into you checking out a new author? How much does bad cover art pique your?curiosity?about a book? Does bad cover art cause you to turn away from the book? Do you prefer photo cover art or digital (Daz, Poser, etc.)?
10) Coupons: Do you love them? Use them or would you prefer a discount in the first week of sales?
11) Do you check out publisher days on Yahoo Loops? Do you attended publisher chats?
12) Do you wait to buy a book when it’s on sale?
13) Do you enter contests hoping to win books? Do you read the books you win?
14) Authors: Promo?companies?love em or hate em or are indifferent?
15) Do you enjoy “cyber signings”? Public “live” signings?
16) Do you follow, or paticipate in/with, blog tours?
1. There’s never to much promo for a book for me.
2. I hear a lot about books from my yahoo groups, newsletters and websites /blogs.
3. I connect by Facebook, Yahoo groups, Google groups and blogs.
4. Yes if I like the author and the book if it’s allowed I vote.
5. If I don’t know the author and I will read the reviews but it doesn’t make me by the book it might make me read the excerpt or the blurb for the book though.
6. Not really to me Awards do not mean much. (I think because there’s so many awards for TV shows and actors these days.)
7. I read them to see what other people say about the book but it doesn’t influence my decision to buy or not to buy.
8. The reputation of the publisher doesn’t influence my decision to buy but some publishers are more well known than others.
9. Cover art will get my attention about a book from a new or known author but it doesn’t have much to do with why I buy a book. If I don’t like the cover but the blurb sounds good I will buy the book. I like photo covers the best.
10. I LOVE coupons for books well for just about anything.
11. Sometimes but I don’t have the time to check out everything on my Yahoo groups.
12. Excuse my language but HELL NO if it’s a book I want bad enough and I have the money I’ll buy it in Hardback or Paperback and pay full price for it. Yes I love a good sell but I don’t like to wait for what I want. I will have to wait a little bit more this year because we’re not working much overtime but that’s life.
13. Yes I enter contest hoping to win books and yes I read them that’s how I found a lot of the authors that I read now.
14. ? authors only right?
15. I’ve never did a cyber or a public signing
16. I love blog tours I think that they are so much fun and you can find new authors that way although if you look at my TBB list you would think that I don’t need to find any more authors.
1 A little promo is great but it is hard if they go from one blog to next one
2 Website , newsletter and website. yahoo group
3 website and Yahoo groups , it is better if they have it simple
4 YES if I can
5 I do check reviews but I don’t always use that to buy a book
6 some of the awards I don’t know anything about
7 reviews is what one person says but it is not yours
8 I try to find out if they on the up and up
9 Some covers draw you in but want is in it will make buy it
10 love coupons but Borders don’t take them
11 not much because is going on so many of them
12 no but I love it you buy like 4 and get number 5 free
13 yes I do and I read all of them
14 they are hard to understand
15 no they are so new to me
16 I try to but is hard when you do and don’t give you like a high five for doing all of it
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1. I don’ think there is ever too much promo.
2. Wesite, newsletter, publisher website, Yahoo group, Facebook & Myspace
3. Blog, wesite, Yahoo group, Facebook & Myspace
4. Yes.
5. No.
6. Maybe
7. Sometimes
8. No
9. Photo cover art
10. Love coupons.
11. Sometimes. I’m not always on the computer on weekends.
12. No
13. Yes and yes
14. N/A
15. I’ve been to two publice events and signings for Karen Marie Moning. I enjoyed both of them.
16. Yes. I love them, but don’t always have time for them.