My book – free!

Ok, so yesterday I claimed that you could buy my new book for free, and it turns out I was lying…but I’m not now, I checked!

So here’s the deal – head over to Teaming with Geese on Amazon and get it for free, and please leave me a review (I’d love five stars but I’d prefer honesty, so go with what you think). Apart from a free book, what’s in it for you?

Well, I’m planning on publishing another two books in the Teaming with Geese series, and would love to give them away for free as well; I’ll send advanced copies to the first five people who leave a review on Amazon and let me know they want them. And so as not to favour the fastest readers/typers, I’ll also give free copies away to the five people who do more of the following than anyone else:

• tell their friends on Twitter
• tell their friends on Facebook
• use your own blog to review it and link to the Amazon page
• send an e-mail to your friends about it

So there you go…happy advertising!

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I published a book!

Probably the most exciting piece news for me in the past week was that a book about teamwork that I wrote, Teaming with Geese, went for sale on Amazon.

The second most exciting piece of news was that at the time of writing, five people have bought it – quids in. Selling at just about £1.50 per copy, that means my royalties are hovering at about a fiver, so I only need that to double to hit Amazon’s minimum amount that I can cash out.

Just so’s you know, it isn’t about the money. And just to prove it, I’m trying to give it away for free! From now right up until Sunday you can ‘buy’ it through Amazon without spending a single penny, and even if you don’t have a Kindle you can read it using the online Kindle reader. And the book really isn’t that long, so you might as well!

[EDIT: Sorry, it's actually not free until tomorrow - I'll update you then!]

But I’d like to ask you a favour please. Please do as many of the following as you can:

• I have a ready-made tweet for you, just click here and it will give you a nice prompt
• Use Facebook to tell all your friends about the book
• Please leave a review on the Amazon page
• Please review the book at your blog if you have one

So you can get it for free here. Enjoy it! If you like it, tell your friends; if you don’t like it, tell me!

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So I’m having a little competition, and the prize is a free book! Because I’m being so incredibly, extravagantly generous I’ll ask you to bear with me while I tell you this little story:

I’m sure many of you already know that one of my hobbies is reviewing books, in fact I have a website dedicated to it. Because I do that, there are some publishers who give me free books in return for me reviewing them – the reviews aren’t required to be positive but as the saying goes, any publicity’s good publicity.

However due to the fact that the publishers are based in America there are occasionally difficulties in shipping the books over – they get lost while still in the States, halfway across the Atlantic, or stuck in some postal warehouse here in the UK. The publishers are great about this and will send a second copy if it gets lost.

Recently I accidentally received two copies of one book because the original copy hadn’t been lost, it was just delayed. I contacted the publishers, and they said I should just give the spare one to a worthy home.

Here’s where you come in.

The prize is A Conversation With God, by Alton Gansky, published by Thomas Nelson. And my review of it is over here.

As you may see, I wasn’t overawed by the book, but it’s certainly not the worst book I’ve ever read, and would make an interesting addition to a lot of people’s bookshelves.

If you’d like a copy, there are a bunch of ways you’re able to enter into the competition:

1. if you know me personally, mention this post in a conversation
2. leave a comment on this blog with a reason why I should give the book to you
3. retweet or publicly share this post
4. blog about this competition

The number of entries you get is equal to the number next to the action, so for example retweeting this blog post will earn you three entries.

I’ll keep entries open until the weekend so ACT NOW! The winner will be selected, and may be announced publicly. Or may not.

Tips on how to win

Flattery will get you everywhere.

I don’t anticipate many people entering so you’ll have a good chance of getting it if you ask.

The small print

All rules of this competition are owned and managed by me. I might change them at any time, at a moment’s notice, and that’s all fine. By ‘until the weekend’ I mean whatever I’m feeling like at the time that I close the competition – it could mean 5pm on Friday, or 9am next Monday. I’m not going to pay any P&P costs so only enter if you’re willing to meet me face-to-face or pay for it yourself.