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Wild Day for My New e-Book!

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Let's Bake Cookie Squares and Biscotti!A year ago I started work on a free-sample e-book.  Life happened, Corona Virus quarantine stuff happened, priorities shifted and I wasn’t able to immediately finish the project.  15December2020 my permafree e-book “Let’s Bake Cookie Squares and Biscotti!” … PUBLISHED!!!  Since then, thing have been so busy I haven’t even had time to list the e-book on my site.
(Bear in mind, I also published a book on November 22nd and have been busy promoting it, too — find out more on BagpiperDon.com.)

The Patriotic Piper, Vol. I
The other book I published

This morning I woke to a message from my friend, Eldritch Black — another author here on Whidbey Island.  He has far more game than I do when it comes to the book-business world.  Lacking all possible caffeine in my system, I understood his message to say that “Let’s Bake Cookie Squares and Biscotti!” was listed on FreeBooksy.  I thought to myself, “What’s it doing on there — I didn’t list with them?!?”  Eldritch went on to say that it was registering at 48 in Amazon’s Top 100 and that I really needed to go take a look.

Saving you details of my sleep-tussled hair and long drawn out drama involved with getting out of bed, I finally got to my laptop and started examining data.  Over the course of today I watched the results from my author-interface on Amazon.com.  FreeBooksy’s free promotion Made Things GO NUTS!

Before I give you the end-of-day numbers, understand a few things first …

  • “Free” technically has a dollar amount — it is $0.00.
  • When someone buys a free e-book it counts as a sale.
  • My previous best number of sales in a day for Let’s Bake Cookie Squares and Biscotti was 104 copies on its second day of publication.  I’ve been proud of that number because most of those came from my work to promote it using my Twitter profile.

By the end of today,
my free-sample e-book achieved…

#35 Free in Kindle Store (Top 100)
#1 in 45-Minute Cookbook, Food & Wine Short Reads
#1 in Dessert Baking (Kindle Store)
#1 in Cookie Baking (Kindle Store)

And my little-ebook-that-could reached a new Record Sales In A Day rank …

2,822 Copies

It’s been a wonderfully wild day for Let’s Bake Cookie Squares and Biscotti!

Make Your Own Darn Good CookiesLet’s Bake Cookie Squares and Biscotti is free and I intend for it to remain free.  It is also available at Smashwords, B&N, iTunes, Kobo, and …. well … pretty much everywhere.  Free.  Look for it on your favourite e-book retailer’s site.  Also, please inform your local library that all of my e-book titles should be on Overdrive and are available to libraries for FREE — ask that they add these to their collection.  The recipes and writing in this book are directly out of Make Your Own Darn Good Cookies.  If you like these recipes please consider a copy for your kitchen collection.  And as always — your book review on Amazon and GoodReads helps to support the author, other readers, and is greatly appreciated.

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FREE Recipe e-Book … SOON!

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There’s Olivia — everybody say HI!

I am EXCITED to say that I am in the final stages of making a free-sample recipe e-book*.  Yesterday I contacted OliviaProDesign, whom I’ve worked with once before, toward handling the cover-art.  An author friend recommended her a few years ago — her work POPS!
(*Here’s a secret — I’m actually working toward TWO free recipe e-books!)

I have proposed using two of my favourite photos — one a cookie square, the other some Toasted Almond Biscotti.  Olivia is so clever she suggested including my company logo, too — why didn’t I think of that, DUH!  Thanks for the pick-up on that, Olivia.  My aim is to do the final stages of publishing around the 15th of this month.

Watch here along with my Facebook and Twitter profiles for more announcements!

All the Best ~ Don

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MYODGC is on GoodReads!

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My book — Make Your Own Darn Good Cookies — has made it on GoodReads!

As you will recall I published in October 2018 — and Jacki Dilley was on it early, posting that December.  She kindly gave me a 5-star review — according to GoodReads 5-stars means “It was amazing!” So, Jacki, if you’re reading this — THANK YOU. 🙂

Writing reviews for authors you like is important.  If you found you enjoyed a book or e-book do the author a favor by leaving your kind review on Amazon, Smashwords, GoodReads and anywhere else. Sharing your experience helps other shoppers to know what they can look forward to and supports the endeavors of the author.

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If you haven’t read my book yet, please download these FOUR FREE SAMPLE RECIPES.  If you like them, I would appreciate it if you would share the recipes, pick up a copy of my book or e-book, and leave a review on the sites mentioned above.

All the Best, Don

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My E-book for 25% Off – July 2019 SALE

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Would you like to
GET MY E-BOOK FOR 25% OFF???

I am pleased to announce that I just enrolled my “Make Your Own Darn Good Cookies” e-book in the 11th annual Smashwords July 2019 SALE!

From July 1st through July 31st you will be able to purchase my e-book for 25% Off Of The Usual Price through Smashwords*.  It’s a great time for summer treats in the northern hemisphere and winter treats in the southern hemisphere.  So as we take another spin around the solar system on this island we call Earth, LET’S GET BAKING!
*As I understand this includes the Smashwords affiliates.

https://www.smashwords.comhttps://www.amazon.comWhen the time is right go to my Smashwords ordering page or use the widget below.  If you prefer to work from a paper recipe book, there is also a great deal at Amazon.com.
It is my understanding presently that… If you purchase a paper copy of my book on Amazon you can then also download a copy of the e-book For FREE!  Keep the e-book for yourself and give the paper-book to a friend 🙂 July

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TIME TO TAKE CARE OF SOMETHING

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Something that came to my attention earlier today… FREE

Make Your Own Darn Good CookiesBefore the Fall 2018 launch of my book I redundantly and obnoxiously told everyone about a link on my website — a link where you could get FOUR FREE RECIPES that were going to be and are in my book. I found out today that not everyone caught that.

Yes — if you go to WhidbeyIslandBaking.com and look under “Products” for “Free Stuff” you can download these FOUR FREE RECIPES — better yet, OR JUST CLICK THIS LINK.

FOR FREE (or FOUR FREE)

You can download my recipes for…

Please try these recipes. Please enjoy these recipes. Please share these recipes. If you have questions about these recipes please ask me. If you don’t have questions then I did my job right in writing these recipes. If you like these, then please buy my book on Amazon. If the book is bigger than your budget, it’s also available as a save-a-tree e-book for about a quarter of the price.

ENJOY!
~ Don

PS — Thank you Rachel for bring this to my attention 🙂