{"id":3548,"date":"2019-01-03T15:36:09","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T15:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/?p=3548"},"modified":"2019-01-03T15:36:09","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T15:36:09","slug":"dear-readers-you-can-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/03\/dear-readers-you-can-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Readers, You Can Help!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>FYI: This post was written by Cindy, not Tom.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Here&#8217;s an Easy-Peasy Way to Help Me!<\/h3>\n<p>See this book?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_965\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-965\" style=\"width: 187px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Brigid_new-design.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-965\" src=\"http:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Brigid_new-design-187x300.jpg\" alt=\"Brigid of Ireland by Cindy Thomson, ebook\" width=\"187\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-965\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ebook, Book One, Daughters of Ireland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It&#8217;s been out for many years, and yet in a Facebook group for readers of Christian fiction, someone asked for recommendations of books set 5th-6th century and no one recommended mine. There is a virtual ocean of books out there, so it&#8217;s hard to get noticed. I&#8217;ve been thinking about that, and I know of a way Brigid could get noticed by a ton of eager readers! (And thus, the two books that follow!) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookbub.com\/authors\/cindy-thomson\">BookBub<\/a> is a website that promotes free and low cost (.99 to 1.99) ebooks. I would have to apply for a promotion and be accepted, but I can&#8217;t just yet. I need at least 50 Amazon reviews. First, I need to convince Amazon to combine these:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-03-at-9.39.02-AM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3549\" src=\"http:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-03-at-9.39.02-AM-300x134.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"134\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-03-at-9.40.21-AM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3550\" src=\"http:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-03-at-9.40.21-AM-300x123.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"123\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If I can get them to combine them, that&#8217;s 36, so you can see, Brigid needs more Amazon reviews.Choose however many stars you&#8217;d like, write something brief or long, your choice. Even negative reviews count! \u00a0If you can write one, do so on the new cover:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00PL4GNA6\/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00PL4GNA6\/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you wrote one on the old cover, thank you!<\/p>\n<h3>And a Bonus!<\/h3>\n<p>If you read <a href=\"http:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/out-with-the-old-and-in-with-the-new-not-exactly\/\">my previous post<\/a> and\/or received my Jan. newsletter, you know <a href=\"http:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/newsletter-signup\/\">newsletter subscribers<\/a> (who actually open the newsletter email) are entered to win the prize I described. You can earn an additional entry if you leave <a href=\"http:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/brigid-of-ireland\/\">a review on Brigid of Ireland<\/a> between Jan. 3 and Jan. 30. (Prize will be awarded Jan. 31)<\/p>\n<h3>ST. Brigid&#8217;s Day<\/h3>\n<p>St. Brigid&#8217;s Day is coming up Feb. 1. What a great way to observe the day by leaving a review or reading the book if you haven&#8217;t already. Or perhaps gift a copy to a friend!<\/p>\n<h3>Easy, Right?<\/h3>\n<p>What could be easier? If you&#8217;d like to help me out (and many of you have said you would!) just leave <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00PL4GNA6\/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1\">an Amazon review<\/a>. Already done that? Tell your friends by creating a post on Facebook or Twitter or wherever you hang out online.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3551\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3551\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/courtney-hedger-336844-unsplash.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3551\" src=\"http:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/courtney-hedger-336844-unsplash-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3551\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Courtney Hedger on Unsplash<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FYI: This post was written by Cindy, not Tom. Here&#8217;s an Easy-Peasy Way to Help Me! See this book? It&#8217;s been out for many years, and yet in a Facebook group for readers of Christian fiction, someone asked for recommendations of books set 5th-6th century and no one recommended mine. There is a virtual ocean&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[230,231,150],"class_list":["post-3548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brigid-of-ireland","tag-bookbub","tag-brigid-of-ireland-by-cindy-thomson","tag-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyswriting.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}