I sold my 3000th Kindle copy of Beyond the Darkening yesterday. To commemorate this momentous occasion, I’m giving away a 3000¢ (AKA $30) giftcard from Amazon.com.
How to enter: Leave ONE comment on this post—a word, a paragraph, a smiley, doesn’t matter. USE A VALID EMAIL ADDRESS in the email field. (Cross my heart, I am not mining them to spam you later. I’m not adding you to a newsletter mailing list. I’m not selling email addresses to spammy marketing sleazebags. It’s not visible to anybody viewing the comments. I just need to be able to contact the winner.)
How to get disqualified: When I say ONE comment, I mean ONE comment. IP addresses are logged and will be compared. If yours shows up more than once in the comments on this post, all of your entries will be discarded.
How to win: At the end of the contest period, I will use random.org to select the winning comment. I will announce the winner on this here blog and send a confirmation email to the winner using the email address provided. (I’m not sending $30 to a dud email address, hence the checking.) If that email address bounces or the winner does not respond within 5 days to confirm that it is a valid email address, I will use the same method to select an alternate winner.
Contest period: Entries will be accepted until 11:59 p.m. EST on June 13, 2010.
The prize: A $30 giftcard from Amazon.com. It’s good only at Amazon.com (not Amazon.uk or Amazon.fr or Amazon.de or any other Amazon-dot-something), so if you can’t shop at Amazon.com, it’s not going to be of much use to you. Here’s the official terms, limitations, and restrictions page so you can check your eligibility. But if you can’t use it and for some reason want to win a really expensive but useless email, who am I to judge?
May the most fortuitously placed, randomly selected commenter win.
June 4th, 2010 at 8:24 AM
Give me money.
June 4th, 2010 at 8:45 AM
Kerry that’s awesome! Congratulations!
June 4th, 2010 at 9:12 AM
3000!! I’m thrilled for you!
June 4th, 2010 at 10:31 AM
You are The Anti-Promoter.
Then again, can’t argue with 0 promo = 3000 sales, can we? You may be onto something…
June 4th, 2010 at 11:02 AM
I like winning!
June 4th, 2010 at 11:06 AM
Congratulations!
June 4th, 2010 at 11:11 AM
Wow, congratulations. That’s pretty much amazing! Better than plenty of traditionally pubbed book sales.
June 4th, 2010 at 5:44 PM
Fun stuff!
June 4th, 2010 at 8:48 PM
Awesome!
June 4th, 2010 at 11:32 PM
Congrats on the 3000th sale! :)
Angie
June 5th, 2010 at 3:06 AM
That’s so rad congrats!
I hope you sell many more. Coincidently, I’ve been wanting to buy the books you sell and wanted to know if you’d benefit more if I bought it from you or through Barnes and Noble. BTW I didn’t know you had a newsletter, how do I sign up?
June 5th, 2010 at 1:22 PM
Thanks for the giveaway! And Congrats!! I would love to be entered!
June 5th, 2010 at 6:18 PM
Congrats! :)
June 6th, 2010 at 8:43 PM
Congrats on 3000 copies!
June 7th, 2010 at 4:05 AM
I will take a piece of that action.
June 7th, 2010 at 6:47 PM
Hey Kerry, I just found your books on smashwords and can’t wait to give them a try. Congrats on your sales.
June 9th, 2010 at 12:08 PM
Congrats on the 3000! Can’t wait to read more from you!
June 13th, 2010 at 5:56 PM
Congratulations for hitting 3000! I think I’ll be moseying on over to check them out for myself. Thanks for the giveaway.
June 13th, 2010 at 5:57 PM
Congrats on the 3000th sale! Way to go!!!
Show me the gift card! hehe!
Thanks for this giveaway!
June 13th, 2010 at 5:59 PM
Congrats on your big number! I’ll head over to Amazon and check out Beyond the Darkening.
June 13th, 2010 at 6:03 PM
June 13th, 2010 at 6:42 PM
I love Amazon. Thanks for the giveaway.
June 13th, 2010 at 6:52 PM
Congratulations!
June 13th, 2010 at 9:33 PM
Wow, 3000 copies! Congratulations! Hearing things like that helps to inspire me. I’m a young writer working on my first novel :) Thanks for the lovely giveaway, and heres to hoping even more copies are sold!!
June 14th, 2010 at 3:52 AM
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