{"id":3341,"date":"2015-01-25T15:07:35","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T20:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/?p=3341"},"modified":"2015-01-25T15:08:34","modified_gmt":"2015-01-25T20:08:34","slug":"3341","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/?p=3341","title":{"rendered":"Failure to Launch &#8212; Are Goodreads Giveaways Terrible?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blooddiva.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/imgres.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blooddiva.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/imgres.jpg\" alt=\"Natl Lampoon\" width=\"193\" height=\"261\" \/><\/a>If you\u2019re looking for advice on how\u00a0<em>not<\/em> to sell your book, you\u2019ve probably come to the right place. I vacillate between believing<em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Blood-Diva-VM-Gautier-ebook\/dp\/B00MKM072W\">Blood Diva<\/a><\/em> is not a bestseller because of factors completely outside of my control AND\/OR it sucks. This despite several loyal readers whom I\u2019ve acquired who may drop in to tell me otherwise. Thank you, loyal readers! You are keeping me alive. Literally! But let\u2019s not go there, lest we summon the mental health police. <em> (If you want to learn more about how to not sell your book, please read the rest of this VERY IMPORTANT THINK PIECE over at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blooddiva.com\/failure-to-launch-goodreads-giveaways\/\">Blood Diva blog.<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re looking for advice on how\u00a0not to sell your book, you\u2019ve probably come to the right place. I vacillate between believing Blood Diva is not a bestseller because of factors completely outside of my control AND\/OR it sucks. This despite several loyal readers whom I\u2019ve acquired who may drop in to tell me otherwise. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/?p=3341\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Failure to Launch &#8212; Are Goodreads Giveaways Terrible?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[1064,1051,1063,864],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3341"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3344,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341\/revisions\/3344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marioninnyc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}