Be a JUMP Starter!

Even in the Internet Age, the best buzz a book can get is still word-of-mouth.  Get some real people behind your book and they'll help you promote it.  At least, that's what my publisher and I are hoping!

That's why we came up with the idea for JUMP Starters.  JUMP Starters will be 25 people who will be selected to help spread the word about JUMP in their communities.  They'll receive a free kit in the mail with a copy of the novel, a poster of the book jacket, and bookmarks to hand out to whomever they choose.  If they can convince a bookstore or library in their town to hang up the poster, and then send me a picture of themselves beside the poster, they'll get another freebie:  a JUMP t-shirt.  And let me just say that this is a pretty cool t-shirt:  a crimson color similar to the background on the book jacket, with yellow print.  I have to pay for mine, but JUMP Starters will get theirs FREE!

Interested?  All you have to do is stop by the blog here on October 1st and leave a comment that you'd like to be a JUMP Starter.  The first 25 people from 25 different states are in like Flynn.  (I'm not sure who Flynn is, but apparently, he is very "in.")  The reason for the 25-different-states thing is simple:  I personally know every single person in the states of Alabama and Mississippi and have already tried to hand sell my book to each of them.  Just kidding.  I know only about 99.9% of them.  I need some geographic diversity!

So, I hope to see you back here on October 1st.  The contest opens at 12 a.m. Central time, because I'm in Central time, and I can't do the math to calculate the time zone differences.  (That's why I became a writer.)  Hope you'll join in the fun!