March 2011 Romantic Book Giveaway

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The March 2011 giveaway features 2 signed books by NovelRank authors:

Divinely Designed

Divinely Designed

This is a signed copy of Divinely Designed by Rachael Renee Anderson, a romantic comedy:

It all begins with calamity, faith, and a flat tire. Seeking liberation from recent heartache, Kennedy Jackson leaves her hometown and moves to Arizona to work as an interior designer. She thinks she is ready for a new start, but her heart still needs some convincing. When she bumps into a handsome stranger on the highway, she starts the ride of her life on a road of divine design that will lead to her dreams if she only has the faith to follow it.
This delightful tale by Rachael Anderson combines wit and romance with the reality that change is difficult, but it can bring about some of life s greatest adventures. Divinely Designed is a sure antidote for gloom and a light-hearted reminder that even the darkest forks in the road can lead somewhere brilliant.

If you would like your chance of winning this book, add your email address to the form below. You’ll be notified by email if you are the winner, and you will also be opting into a follow-up email to let you know when the next book in the giveaway becomes available.

Within the Law

Within the Law

This is a signed copy of Within the Law by Chelle Cordero, a romantic suspense available in Kindle and Paperback (the paperback is the giveaway item):

Tom gave up on ever falling in love again the day that he buried his high school sweetheart and fiancé. He started a career in law enforcement just so that he could find her murderer and rapist.
Just when he is about to see justice done, he meets Alli Davis-the defense attorney for the murdering rapist who took his love from him.
Alli and Tom share a mutual and passionate attraction but Alli refuses to make any commitments. She is hiding a huge secret. Tom falls in love with her and pursues her despite a false arrest, kidnapping and attempt on his life.

If you would like your chance of winning this book, add your email address to the form below. You’ll be notified by email if you are the winner, and you will also be opting into a follow-up email to let you know when the next book in the giveaway becomes available.

The Rules
Any email address that is not valid will not be accepted. Any email to a temporary mailbox service (e.g. mailinator.com) will be disqualified and may be publicly mocked. Unless otherwise stated, only one book can be won by any single email address. Multiple entries for a single book will not be accepted (you can enter to win each book if different books are offered in a given month). The winner will be randomly drawn no later than the 3rd of the following month and contacted via email to receive shipping information. Winners who fail to respond to the email within 72 hours will forfeit their win to another random winner.

February 2011 Poetry Book Giveaway

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The February 2011 giveaway features 2 signed poetry books by NovelRank authors:

Livid

Livid

This is a signed copy of Livid by Greta Stone, and below is a sample poem called Six Was Innocent.

Greasy pizza at the flea market
That we lived for
Learning how to write
our names
Ice-cream melting on my shirt
And not caring
It was innocent
Until pizza made me sick
And my name was being
Written on the bathroom walls
And my shirt was soaked
With tears because I cared
And I wish I could go back
to six because
six was innocent.

If you would like your chance of winning this book, add your email address to the form below. You’ll be notified by email if you are the winner, and you will also be opting into a follow-up email to let you know when the next book in the giveaway becomes available.

This giveaway is closed

When You Feel & Don’t Know How to Say

Whel You Feel & Don't Know How to Say

This is a signed copy of When You Feel & Don’t Know How to Say by Estefania Crespo, a collection of poems encompassing feelings and emotions. Whenever you feel trapped without anywhere to escape, take a trip through your mind and make a pit stop on some paper. The world is beautiful place if you let it be, even at your darkest moments…

I am gracious for the vital life you keep,
Alive, vigorous, and bright.
And I am gracious for you, oh world,
As you never miss a day of work.
For us you continue to survive.

If you would like your chance of winning this book, add your email address to the form below. You’ll be notified by email if you are the winner, and you will also be opting into a follow-up email to let you know when the next book in the giveaway becomes available.

This giveaway is closed

The Rules
Any email address that is not valid will not be accepted. Any email to a temporary mailbox service (e.g. mailinator.com) will be disqualified and may be publicly mocked. Unless otherwise stated, only one book can be won by any single email address. Multiple entries for a single book will not be accepted (you can enter to win each book if different books are offered in a given month). The winner will be randomly drawn no later than the 3rd of the following month and contacted via email to receive shipping information. Winners who fail to respond to the email within 72 hours will forfeit their win to another random winner.

Featured Book Donation Drive – Spring 2011


The picture to the right is me at a Meals on Wheels fundraising event, raising money to deliver meals to the homes of those in need. Besides NovelRank, this is one of the organizations I give back to and support, with my time and money. To that end, I’m writing today to ask for your support to keep NovelRank prospering in 2011. Donations have slowed enough that my hourly wage (hours working on NovelRank divided by donations dollars) has started going backwards and is now below $5 per hour.





 

 

In the last 6 months, NovelRank has made a large number of improvements, including: Research on sales rank myths, improved kindle sales estimate accuracy, improved social networking tie-ins, book analysis, CSV download and RSS feeds for user pages, sorting of books on user pages, added Amazon.co.uk Kindle book tracking, worldwide snapshot on user pages, and tons of little bug fixes and tweaks to speed up the website. I hope to continue in 2011 with an iPhone app, SMS/Email notifications of book sales, and greater support for Kindle books on Amazon.co.uk. done!

Of course, I’m happy to give something more in return, so here is what you can receive by donating: A coveted Featured Book spot on NovelRank, one of only 9 spots! Combined over the last 6 months, the books featured on the Track, FAQ, Publisher, Top 10, and Login have received a combined 341,000+ page views! The Track page accounts for 274,000 of those views in the last 6 months. To put that in perspective, this is 3 times the traffic expected during the last donation drive.

 

Donate $400 or more – You may choose 3 books to be rotated through all pages
Donate $150 – You may choose 1 book to be rotated on the Track page for each $150 donation
Donate $50 – You may have 1 book rotated through the FAQ, Publisher, Top 10, and Login pages





 

Optional: If you cannot use PayPal, use the NovelRank Supporters Amazon Wishlist.

 

Any donation amount will be accepted. The above amounts are simply reward levels. After donating, you can either email me or you will receive an email shortly after the donation asking you which book(s) will be included.

Thanks for contributing to this community supported website. All Featured Books will stay up till July 1, 2011 at a minimum. Note: The amount of page views received is not a fixed amount, but is dependent on the number of qualified donations and thus the number of books in rotation.

Cheers,
Mario Lurig
Creator, NovelRank.com

Amazon UK Kindle Book Tracking Improved

Amazon.co.uk The last week with Amazon Kindle Edition books has been… interesting.
First and foremost, many books were placed on Amazon’s Kindle Store by publishers through MobiPocket instead of the Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP, formerly Digital Text Platform or DTP). Amazon has migrated these books to KDP, and in the process, those books were issued a new ASIN number, the unique number assigned to all products on Amazon.

What does this mean for you, the author? Your book may need to be added to tracking again using the new ASIN just as you did in the past. It is a mess created by Amazon not using the same ASIN, but alas, we move on.

Now for the good news!

For a while, some Kindle books that were not added to the Kindle Store through Amazon’s KDP suffered a penalty when it came to tracking: They were not accessible through the Amazon API, which is what allows NovelRank, SalesRankExpress, and other websites from accessing information about the book, including sales rank. For every other website, this is the end of the story. However, a few months ago I added code to NovelRank that worked around this limitation with Amazon.com and tracked the book’s sales rank anyway.

Well, that new code was added before Kindle books were added to Amazon.co.uk, and thus it only supported Amazon.com. Today, that is no longer the case. You can now track these Amazon.co.uk books on NovelRank. Be advised, this is about 5% as efficient a process as using Amazon’s API, but I feel it is a good idea that NovelRank continues to offer solutions for authors where other websites and publishers cannot provide the information. That’s why it exists after all.