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I started something of an experiment a week ago. I started a two-week giveaway of Counting from Ten over on Goodreads, and then proceeded to — well, do nothing, actually. I’ve run giveaways there before and managed to get a halfway decent response to them, but I’ve also promoted them through the usual channels; here on this blog, over on the Facebooks and the Twitters, and in my e-mail newsletter. This time I thought, what if I didn’t do any of that? What would the response be like if I just let Goodreads users naturally discover it on their own?

One week later, I can tell you what that response has been like. Dismal, that’s what that response has been like. Right now, only 149 people have entered to win the book, out of all five kajillion Goodreads users. Man, that’s depressing. I would almost wonder if the book needed a new description, except I just gave it a new description a little while ago that seems to have helped increase its sales over on Amazon. So I dunno.

So anyway, long story short, I decided that this week I would start promoting the giveaway, and see if that seemed to make any difference. Why not enter today? If you already have a print copy of Counting from Ten, first of all, bless you for that, and secondly, you can always give this one to a friend.

See, the thing is, Counting from Ten needs some love. I don’t think I promoted it anywhere near enough when I first published the 10th anniversary edition. Consequently, even though this is the book that several of my fans have told me is still their favorite (which I always hear as them saying, “you peaked immediately and have kept going downhill with each new release,” but that’s probably not how they actually mean it), it has a paltry three reviews on Amazon. Again, dismal. So I’m really hoping this giveaway will get it in the hands of someone who will write a review. You, maybe? Look, I’m batting my cute little eyelashes.

But anyway! While I’ve been paying attention to all this, apparently, Read an E-Book Week has started! I know, right? No one told me, either. But no, really, it’s happening, look, there’s a little graphic for it and everything:

That’s how you know it’s a real thing. People all over the book-o-sphere are making their e-books available for free or cheap, so I figured, what the hell, why not? So between now and March 9th, you can get “Slices”, “Counting From Ten”, and “Permanent Damage” for just $0.99 each! That means you could pick up all three of them for slightly less than it would normally cost you to buy any one of them, and if that doesn’t sound like a good deal to you then I don’t even know what the hell you people want from me anymore.

Wow, that escalated quickly. Anyway! Hope you get a chance to check out the giveaway and maybe the sales, and as always, please pass the word along to whomever you normally pass the word along to. Thanks, I love you guys.