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message 1: by Scott (new)

Scott Zavoda (ScottZavoda) | 29 comments I need 10-15 authors who want to get in on a BLACK FRIDAY Social Media Sale. The Facebook and Blogging event will go on all day. The idea is to provide one or more of your books at discounted price the entire day and expose your work to new fan circles. Each author involved will be posting his / her own work and also the other participating author works on their social media sites at predetermined intervals throughout the day. So say if authors Bob, Judy, Mike, Blake Crouch (HA!) and Chris were involved, I would post each of their works separately and at a predetermined time during Black Friday. Each author would do the same but not necessarily in the same order. Here are more specifics:

• Minimum of 5 authors needed to participate. The max is around 20. I’m looking for high quality writing and I will hold the right to accept or deny who be part of this.

•Accepting the following Genres: Horror, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Short stories of the same, Speculative, Science Fiction, Fantasy. (No romance or children’s books. Young adult may be okay.)

•Everybody involved pre-writes an related to their book, or books they’d like to showcase.

•You must reduce the price at least 50% during the day of the sale.

•During the day each participating author will showcase other works with one post (including their own) spaced at pre determined intervals.

•The showcase will be timed differently for each participant meaning your book might be posted on one authors FB or blog page in the morning and then in the evening on another authors page.

•Every participant will email their ad and accompanying cover photo to me and I will disperse them to all the other participants for the Black Friday showcase.

•It will probably work best to pre-schedule all the posts.

•Each author at his/her discretion may offer other incentives on their FB / Blog page that day including a free copy of their book if a reader LIKES their page or SIGNS UP for their mailing list. This info should be included in your ad.


So who’s in? Let me know what book(s) you’re planning to include by a link to your book here. Once we have an established group, I will PM everybody with my email and more details. This is a great opportunity for all of us to expose our works to other reading circles. Who’d say no to FREE MARKETING!


message 2: by Justin (new)

Justin (justinbienvenue) | 2274 comments I'm In! But two questions:

Can it be e-book and paperback or one over the other?

Does it have to be under 50% on Amazon or can it be with CS or other sites an author may be using?


message 3: by Keith (new)

Keith Owens | 37 comments Sounds like fun, plus a good opportunity.The Mayonnaise Murders
My book is The Mayonnaise Murders. It is a science fiction/fantasy/detective mystery with a good amount of humor thrown in.


message 4: by Gideon (last edited Nov 22, 2014 11:43PM) (new)

Gideon Asche (gideonasche) | 29 comments Scott wrote: "I need 10-15 authors who want to get in on a BLACK FRIDAY Social Media Sale. The Facebook and Blogging event will go on all day. The idea is to provide one or more of your books at discounted price..."

I might be interested but how do you reduce the price on Amazon?


message 5: by Tabatha (last edited Nov 22, 2014 11:53PM) (new)

Tabatha Stirling | 14 comments I would be interested too. My novella, Three Months of Chaos, is about addiction in the Thatcher's London in the 80's.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Three-Months-...


message 6: by Scott (new)

Scott Zavoda (ScottZavoda) | 29 comments All sounds good. As far as discounts go i just think customers will want to see what they are saving for the sale. That is fine Justin. And to reduce the price on amazon you simply go to your kdp bookshelf where you set up all your publishing info and change the price there. It usually takes several hours for Amazon to show the change so plan to do it Thursday night.


message 7: by Scott (new)

Scott Zavoda (ScottZavoda) | 29 comments I have this thread going on KBoards too. I will make final selections on Wednesday evening.


message 8: by Janet (last edited Nov 23, 2014 04:58AM) (new)

Janet Martinez (highlandlas) | 20 comments Sounds good. I have two thrillers -- Drop Dead Killers and The Twin Murders. The amazon links are: http://amzn.to/1mKdPNT for Killers and http://amzn.to/1t2B9w2 for Twins. These are the first two books of a series.


message 9: by Scott (new)

Scott Zavoda (ScottZavoda) | 29 comments Ok. Closed it out a bit early so there is time to set it up. I sent everyone selected a message. Sorry, this turned out strictly fiction. The only other thing that may have disqualified someone was my inability to locate your social media presence anywhere. If that was an oversight, send your appeals now. Thanks everyone. This will be fun!


message 10: by Scott (new)

Scott Zavoda (ScottZavoda) | 29 comments I hope all the promoting is going well! Happy Black Friday.


message 11: by Vanessa (new)

Vanessa Wester | 21 comments Only just saw this... I have three eBooks free at the moment! Can I still take part? :)


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