Category: Publicity & Promotions

Head Over Heels at The Fussy Librarian!

HEAD OVER HEELS is featured in The Fussy Librarian email newsletter today! If you’re a reader, you can visit their website to check out how to sign up for future emails.

The Fussy Librarian is a new book email service that currently does not post the books to their website, but will send you a daily email featuring books based on your preferences selected at their site. As well as checking off boxes for genre preferences (like Romance-Comedy, the category for HEAD OVER HEELS), you can also check off how much sex, violence and profanity you prefer (or don’t prefer!) in your reading. That way, if you want zero profanity, The Fussy Librarian will only email you books that have been “shelved” that way.

If you’re an author, submissions are currently free as the newsletter builds its subscriber base. Please check out how to submit your novels.

Note, I am not affiliated with The Fussy Librarian. Just informing you about it.

Number Four in Contemporary Romance Free Kindle Books!

It’s the second day of WHERE SHE BELONGS’s five-day run in the Kindle Free Ebook store. This morning, I am thrilled to report that the book is #10 in the Kindle Free store overall, #7 in Romance, #4 in Contemporary Romance, and NUMBER ONE in both Women’s Fiction and Contemporary Fiction.

Also, yesterday I received a wonderful new five-star review from a reader on Amazon. I have no idea if this review is a result of one of the free downloads or from one of the paid sales (on which I earn royalties) from December. The reader says, “This story made me laugh and cry. I absolutely loved the characters and their love story.” She also remarked on the book’s lack of grammar and spelling errors. Thank you, dear reader!

The free book downloads from Amazon continue until January 30th, inclusive. If you haven’t downloaded your copy yet, please do! Here’s the link again.

Also, thank you to Michael Gallagher of Free Kindle Books and Tips for mentioning WHERE SHE BELONGS on his blog this weekend.

Where She Belongs Free on Kindle Until January 30th!

WHERE SHE BELONGS is FREE on Amazon to download to your Kindle from Saturday, January 26th to Wednesday, January 30th! That’s five whole days during which the book will be free. If you don’t have a Kindle, you can still download the book to your PC or tablet and read it on whichever free reading app works for your device. You can even read it on the Kindle Cloud Reader.

This is the only time I know of that the book will be made available for free, so don’t miss out!

If you check the link to the Amazon page very early on January 26th (like, say, at 1 a.m.) and the book isn’t free yet, just give it a couple of hours and check back again. Amazon might make the book downloadable for free one minute after midnight, or a few hours might pass until it’s available. That is completely up to Amazon mechanics.

You have five days to grab your copy. Please share on Facebook and Twitter and tell your friends. Thanks!

WHERE SHE BELONGS Ebook cover.

All About Kate–And Allie’s Birthday

My buddy, my pal, my life-long friend, Kate St. James, has an interview up at the Red Sage Authors blog today. Feel free to go read it. You never know what info you might glean! If you’re so inclined, you can even ask her a question. She promises she might answer. But only if you’re nice.

In other news, my puppy, my girl, my doggie, Allie McBeagle, turns 9 today! She wants a small Dairy Queen ice cream cone. She really wants a “baby burger,” but she needs to wait until she’s ten.

Happy birthday, Allie!

Allie McBeagle with E.S., about to fall asleep. She's really still 8 here, but that's okay.

Baby Allie, December 2001. About 8 weeks. Beagles change coloring as they age. Six months later, her face and ears where you see black were brown. Her muzzle started to turn white at 4. Isn't she cuuuuuuuuuuuttttte?

I’m Either Boring Or A Promo Whiz

Sooooooooo, the other day while I was exploring my web host in search of stats, I came across the top 16 search strings for the month of November (so far) that would lead to my website.

What’s a search string, you ask? For the sake of those who don’t know, it’s the words or phrase that a person might type into the search window of their favorite search engine (like Google, for example). Then you get a list of clickable websites.

Every so often I visit another author’s blog where she lists the hilarious search results leading to her website. Mine ain’t so hilarious. But I’m glad to see that the—ta-da—number 1 phrase in my Top 16 Search Strings is…”muse interrupted blog.” Which means the majority of my visitors are looking for me via my blog name. In fact, 26.67% of browsers, to be exact.

Here’s the Top 16:

  1. muse interrupted blog (26.67% – excellent!)
  2. site:cindyprocter-king.com (16.67% – excellent. And Procter is spelled correctly—bonus!)
  3. muse interrupted (13.33% – excellent again!)
  4. ada marie finkel (say what? I don’t know this person. Also, note, from this point on every search string drops to 3.33% of searches)
  5. author of war with grampa (I am an author, my dead grampa—and that’s how I spell it—was in WWI, so this search string makes sense)
  6. be there or not be there movie (????)
  7. cindy procter king (yay, Procter is spelled correctly again! Although the hyphen is missing.)
  8. cindy proctor king blog donna russo morin (Procter is spelled wrong—booooooo!—but I do have a blog and I have hosted author Donna Russo Morin as a guest)
  9. danielle chiotti romantic suspense (Danielle is an agent I must have mentioned in a blog post at some point)
  10. golden heart contest (makes sense, seeing as I’ve finaled in the Golden Heart, I have a group blog with other GH finalists, and I have an article about entering the GH in my site archives)
  11. how to remove mal occhio (I have no freaking idea why this search string would lead to my website! I don’t even know what mal occhio is, although it sure doesn’t sound good)
  12. if i final in the golden heart will i have a chance to revise m (I’m assuming the rest of the word is manuscript, and my answer to the question is…it seems to vary from year to year. The year I finaled, 2007, no, we were not given the chance to fiddle with our fulls. I do believe it’s a rare year that you are given the opportunity to submit an updated version of your full, if, in fact, it EVER occurs)
  13. kates new cover (we all know how obsessive I am about posting news for Kate St. James, although we can’t figure out why)
  14. kelly fitzpatrick author (no idea why Kelly’s name leads to my blog)
  15. old wallboard (I’ve used this phrase in an article or post about my office)
  16. yip yap yahooey (a “Cindyism,” so this last one makes sense, too.)

There you have it.

If you have a hankering to dig up your own search strings, let me know about it and I’ll pop over to your blog and take a look. I’m pretty sure the fact that my top 3 searches are variations on my author name or blog name is because I posted to one of my loops recently asking people to see if they could reach my blog (see Monday’s post for why). I provided the link within the email, but maybe they found it easier to plug the blog name into a search engine.

Or maybe I really am a promo whiz!