Since I returned to writing and publishing in 2022, my habit has been to run one promo a month, alternating among sites such as Book Barbarian, The Fussy Librarian, and Freebooksy. In 2025, my pattern fell apart because the world fell apart around me. (Damn you, Nazis and Fascists!) Several months passed with no promotional or marketing efforts at all from me. I was busy trying to save Democracy.
When November-December rolled around, I decided on a year-end push to raise my books’ visibility. Without really planning it, just scheduling whatever promos occurred to me, I ended up with:
- A massive sale of my audiobooks, deeply discounted at Chirp
- A half-price sale on all of my ebooks at Smashwords
- A “Free Book of the Day” feature at Book Barbarian
- An “Audible Pick” at Audio Thicket
Here’s hoping this flurry of publicity nets some new readers! The big audiobook sale at Chirp ends December 12, but the half-price sale on ebooks at Smashwords continues through January 1. Spread the word, won’t you? In these difficult economic times (people can’t even afford McDonald’s anymore) every reader of books needs and wants bargains.












https://www.waterspell.net/books-and-readers/smashwords-end-of-2025-book-sale/
Another related blog post is: https://www.waterspell.net/audiobooks/early-black-friday-sale-5-star-fantasy-audiobooks/