Making Promotions Fun

I'm working on ways to do promotions that won't leave me feeling as unwelcome as a vacuum cleaner sales rep and won't send potential readers into hiding when I mention I'm an author with a book for sale. My plan is to build a game around my next book release. There will be mysteries to solve and adventures to take. Reading excerpts and watching trailers will be something readers engage in voluntarily and urge their friends to do. At least that's my hope.

I'm testing the various points tracking interfaces here at Nara's Nook and will launch the real contest the first week of September.

If you want to help me test the contest interface, sign in with your Facebook ID. (It's Okay. I don't get any of that info, nor would I use it to spam you.) When you interact on my blog in various ways you'll earn points. At the end of testing the tester with the highest point total wins my help in designing a game around a promotion they want to do. Let's make promotions something authors and readers can enjoy.