Hi Everybody,
Dan Here. I've got something that has been on my heart for quite a while now and I want to share with all of you. Normally, we try to be the good stewards of our talents that God expects with us being all humble and stuff. Sometimes, though, I feel like shouting from the roof-top and lucky you, today is that day. So, here goes (and to alot of you, this is not NEW news)... My wife, Darlene Shortridge, is an incredible writer. For those of you who have read her stuff, you know this already. For those that have not...you are missing out! Just to get a sample of her awesomeness, you should register to get a free digital version of her first book, Until Forever (which has been downloaded over 200,000 times!). My intent with this post is not to just score points with my wife (although I'm looking forward to that) but to make this point... It's Ok to brag on your wife or husband or kids or grand-kids. It's O.K. to brag on yourself. As long as your bragging is true, appreciative, heart-felt, edifying and done in a spirit of humility and thankfulness, I think it's perfectly O.K. to brag. So, with that, please go check out my wonderful, beautiful, talented, woman of prayer, Darlene Shortridge. We never claimed to know it all. In fact, we learn something new just about every day. Case in point...  We have been enrolled in KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing) Select with some or most of our books during the past five years or so of being self-published.
Mother’s Day is a big day for promotions as moms everywhere are getting e-readers for their big day. Darlene planned a giveaway for her first cozy mystery and we helped one of our clients with a giveaway for that weekend as well. Our client eagerly filled out the online submission tool that sends out the promotion to 30+ online E-Book promoters. They will in turn send out 1,000’s of emails to their subscriber lists letting readers know the book is free and when. After having her do that, Darlene reminded her to go and make sure her dates were secured for the giveaway on KDP. A little while later, we received a frantic message from her that KDP would not allow her to schedule her free days. Darlene signed into her account and lo and behold, her 90-day renewal date for KDP was the Friday before Mother’s Day, which happened to be the proposed first day of her promotion. Big smack upside the head! We could not schedule the promotion until the new term actually began! Darlene ended up staying online until 3 am on Thursday night to set up her free days—once her KDP Select automatically renewed—and we totally missed out on the first free day, Friday. Lesson learned? Schedule the FREE days first in your KDP account before doing any promotion! |
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