Juho Pohjalainen's Blog: Pankarp - Posts Tagged "free-books"

Last year, I put my debut novel on a Goodreads Giveaway, over the course of a month racking in 1264 requests of people wishing to read it. I was pretty surprised so many people would want to give it a go, and quite happy with the final number.

Now my second book has surpassed that number - in less than a week!

So that's pretty cool, but I wonder how it could have been? Is it because this is my second attempt, and more established authors are more favoured by the readers - or by the Goodreads site itself - than complete newbies? Is it because I'm throwing away print copies this time, and those are in higher demand, or again propped up in better position by the site? Or is it because of a more appealing cover and/or synopsis?

Hard to say. I suspect I'll never find out. But I'm happy.

The giveaway is still going, if you want to take part. I appreciate all those expressing their willingness to read something I've tossed out there, even if I cannot throw a free copy to literally everyone asking for it. Thank you all.

Last time I put my books on a giveaway, I tossed them all into a single great pile so that it might rise into prominence threefold. Now I'm going to put them up one after another instead - see if I could stretch it out a little bit and remain in view for a longer time, even if not as highly.


As such, The Straggler's Mask is available for free even as I write this. Scourge of the Silver Wings will be up from 21st onward. Finally, Last Gasp to Bygone Stars can be picked up on 25th or later.

That's almost two weeks' worth of free books! We'll see how this goes.