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Starlet’s Web & Starlet’s Run Giveaway Winner(s)
First off I would like to thank everyone who entered and publicized the giveaway I had with Carla Hanna for paperback copies of Starlet’s Web and Starlet’s Run. Thank you for making this my most successful giveaway yet.
Secondly, I would like to give a HUGE thank you to Carla Hanna, both for sending me her great book(s) to review and for agreeing to go along with this giveaway. (As a side note this giveaway was the first she’s ever done with a blogger.) Her questions for you guys were amazing and brought up many thoughtful entries, but it’s her replies to those entries that really seemed special for me. Carla took an active role in the giveaway, tirelessly promoting it and giving her best responses to your entries. She really is an incredible woman.
I digress. Here are the results of the giveaway:
All thirteen people that entered the giveaway will be receiving a prize pack consisting of print copies of Starlet’s Web and Starlet’s Run.
Carla had such a hard time picking out just one winner and she was so grateful for the thoughtful entries that, yes, she has decided to ship out a prize pack to every single person who entered as a thank you. Not every author has the resources to do this, so I ask only one thing of the winners: that you leave an honest review of her books on whatever sites you want, whether it’s Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Goodreads or your own blog.
It doesn’t have to be a thousand words and it doesn’t even have to be positive. But I would ask you all to show Carla some thanks by leaving a couple sentences or even paragraphs about her books. After all, there are very, very few contests where everyone is a winner. So please, make this one count.
My Interview with Carla J. Hanna
Carla J. Hanna is the self-published author of Starlet’s Web (and the rest of the Starlet series), a novel about a child actress who wants to get away from the Hollywood lifestyle of booze, drugs and sex. Read on to see our discussion about media messages, Hollywood and the dark side of publishing.
1. I’ve heard some interesting stories about the publishing industry from your comments here on the blog, but what would you say was your worst experience in the industry?
I was wiped out when I first learned that my coming-of-age fiction with romantic and spiritual elements had no commercial chance at being represented by a traditional publisher or widely read if I self-published. Every publishing expert told me that the teen coming-of-age market is too small to be profitable.
“Surely readers aren’t so shallow?” I protested. It wasn’t about what readers choose to read… Continue reading