Reiteration of Guidelines for Giveaways

[Valerie Russo]

Hi, all:

I'm getting inundated with emails with questions about these giveaways so either the guidelines I have posted are confusing or they are not being read so let me try to simplify here:

Most of the books offered in this group (this group only) are reprints meaning they were originally published in a hardcover version or published before and are now being published again in paperback version.

Therefore, I'm not really looking for reviewers but bloggers who want to host giveaways for their readers. Of course, I'm not discouraging reviewers - it's just that in these cases we're more interested in giveaways. If you want to do a review, that's fantastic but please realize I don't have galleys to offer for these books and the books may reach you very close to publishing date.

Ideally, I would like the giveaways posted near pub. date so it may be hard to reviews these and do the giveaway together. However, when you post either is really up to you.

So if you request a review copy for a book coming out next month, you won't get your copy until then, very close to the pub. date.

if you close post your giveaway early and it ends before the book is out, your winners might be waiting weeks until the book reaches them.

- Almost always the offer is for five copies of each book and always includes shipping from us to the winners. No PO Boxes and US and Canada only.

- In order to have the book giveaway cross-promoted on our site, the giveaway must have a duration of over 7 days and the link must be sent to me with enough time to have it posted on our site or our newsletter in addition to that time frame.

General rule: longer contests work better for us all around. When you send me the link to your contest send the actual post link not the general link to your blog.

- It's come to my attention that some bloggers who are requesting the books for review are also entering and winning the same book at other sites or that some entrants are winning numerous copies at many sites. I would encourage you to urge your entrants to pass on extra copies they've won. I know some winners do their own giveaways or offer them as gifts but it's very hard for me to justify costs and shipping charges when sending the same person multiple copies of the same book in different shipments. Please keep that in mind.

- Please, please be specific when sending us a request - we get hundreds of emails daily. Please include your link, your full name and address and what book you would like.

We thank you for all you do for us and are honored to work with so many of you!

I hope this makes it easier for everyone. Feel free to post any other questions here.

[Deborah]

thanks for the clarification!
you guys are all awesome and we are so grateful for all that you do!!!!
thank you again!!!!!!!!!

[Cheryl Tasses]

Thank you Valerie. I am new to this whole experience and am happy to have the guidelines reiterated as I had missed seeing them earlier :-)

I won two of the same title, but had the second one sent to a friend in another state. I hope that was acceptable. In the future, I will simply tell the giveaway host to redraw another name and send my friends my used copy.

This an awesome opportunity Hachette allows and I'm so happy to be a small part.

[Valerie Russo]

No worries!

[Vanessa Dow]

Thanks for posting this. As a blogger, I know I would want to make this as painless as possible for you.

[Debbie]

Thanks for posting this Valerie! I appreciate all the opportunities you offer.

[Valerie Russo]

I emailed you back yesterday

[Win Wire]

The only question I have is this. I usually post my giveaway on a separate site from my review. Do you want a link to both - or just the giveaway?

Daneille

[Valerie Russo]

I'd love to have both sent to me.

[Valerie Russo]

A Lucky Child is not one of the offers here in this group.That's a new release. But again, it's up you how you order it.

[Valorie Tucker]

I've made the mistake of winning multiple books of the same one. :P But now I keep a notebook to write down what I win or request so that I won't make that mistake. I sent it as a gift.

[Shoshana]

I'm thrilled to host a giveaway...and so are my readers! Thank you!

[Bridget Hopper]

Thank you!