I haven’t heard back from MERP, so I’m guessing that’s a dead end. I would have thought they’d at least have a bot send me a notification that they got my request and would get back to me with their decision in so many days. Jakiblue sent me some other links for Blog Tours and I may look into them.

Of more interest are my initial findings on the DIY ads at Goodreads. My ad has been running for a week now. According to their daily statistics they’ve placed my ad 3512 times on pages people are looking at. This has resulted in exactly 0 (zero) clicks. The good news is my $50 is lasting a good long time – LoL. The bad news is that either people don’t care about the ad or they’re not seeing it. I know that when I go to the various pages at Goodreads, the ads are along the side of the page and toward the bottom. Unless I scroll down the page for some reason, I often don’t see them at all. Other times, when I do see something that catches my eye, it’s usually right after I’ve clicked to go somewhere else and then I can’t get the same ad to pop back up.

In other news, I started a Giveaway on Goodreads. I’m putting up for grabs one print version of my book. The Giveaway is open to everyone. Goodreads handles the entire thing (aside from me being responsible for getting the book sent out to the winner). I’m running the sign up time until September 9th (my birthday!). There’s still several days available to sign up. Tell your friends. Heck, tell your enemies!

I’ll report back next week with further news on my DIY ad, and update y’all on the Giveaway.