HOME OF YA & NA AUTHOR COOKIE O'GORMAN
Hi bookworms!
This week, for the first time ever, my YA romance The Good Girl’s Guide to Being Bad is available for just $0.99!!!!! Yay!!!
The sale is for Amazon and Amazon UK and will last from July 15-19!
If you love enemies-to-lovers, swoony first kisses and LOL moments, you’ll love TGGGTBB! <333
I hope you’ll check out Sadie & Colton’s story (and I hope you love it :))!
Happy reading,
Cookie O’Gorman
I can’t believe it’s already July! 0_0
When did that happen lol? But seriously, I feel like this year–especially these past couple of months–are just flying by.
Full disclosure: Last week, I wanted to do a blog post, but I stopped myself, felt like I had so much to say but nothing anyone would care about etc.
Luckily, this week I’m over it :).
There’s been a lot going on (some good, some not-so-good), and I’m excited to share with you guys!
Here are the 5 Things: I’m Working On.
And there you have it, my first “5 Things” post in a while :).
I hope it wasn’t too boring, and I hope you’re all having a great summer so far!
Happy reading,
Cookie O’Gorman
That’s right, you guys :).
ADORKABLE, my debut YA romance, is now available for just $0.99!!!
This is a limited time deal, bookworms, that will run from May 23 at 8:00 am PDT until May 28 at 8:00 am PDT on Amazon (May 24 until May 28 on Amazon UK).
If you love YA romance, fake boyfriends, best friends and geeking out, ADORKABLE is the book for you! What are you waiting for? Treat yourself, and take advantage of this awesome deal!
Sally & Becks’s story is still so special to me, and I hope you enjoy it! <3
If you’ve already read, please help me spread the word and share this with your bookish friends! I’d truly appreciate it!
I love finding new readers. It’s one of my favorite things about running Kindle Countdown Deals–and this will be the last one for this particular book for a while.
Speaking of which, I have an announcement coming up about ADORKABLE, so please be on the lookout for that. I’ve been holding onto it for a while, not posting, and though I’m still scared that I’ll somehow jinx it, I’d like to share the good news with you. (If you follow me on Twitter, you may have already heard :))
In other bookish news: I’m thrilled with how The Good Girl’s Guide to Being Bad has been doing! <3 Sadie & Colton are out there, dancing into readers’ hearts, and I couldn’t be more grateful! More posts about them coming soon! I have a giveaway coming up for NINJA GIRL that I hope you’ll love! And The Unbeliveable, Inconceivable, Unforeseeable Truth About Ethan Wilder was in the top 100 Teen & Young Adult Romantic Mystery ebooks last week! Yayyy!
I hope you’re all doing well and reading awesome books!
Happy reading,
Cookie O’Gorman
Hello, reading ninjas!
As I mentioned, for this week only, NINJA GIRL is available for just $0.99!!! Yipee, woohoo, hi-yah :).If you’re a YA romance reader who likes to laugh while you swoon, I’d love for you to give Snow and Ash’s story a chance. My girl, Snow, is such a badass, and Ash is SO disarmingly charming/swoonworthy <3. If you do give it a shot, I hope you enjoy all the action scenes, the kissing scenes as well as the marshmallow fluff–oh and the kimchi!
Sidenote: If you loved Ash in ADORKABLE, you’ll love him here. *sigh*
Again, NINJA GIRL is just $0.99 this week! This sale will only last from Monday to Saturday, and I’d be ever so grateful if you’d help me spread the word (especially if you know any readers who need a pick-me-up/a taste of happily-ever-after ;)). Thank you so much in advance!
I hope you’re having an awesome week so far!
Happy Reading,
Cookie O’Gorman
Bookbub seriously rocks!
Wait, wait, what’s that you say? You don’t know what Bookbub is? *Gasp* How can that be?
Just kidding lol, I didn’t know either until I decided to publish my first book ADORKABLE :). In 2016, I searched the best ways to promote a book, and Bookbub was always right there, being mentioned by authors. They made it sound SO awesome, and of course, I had to know more. So, what is Bookbub? Basically, it’s a site that helps readers find new reads at a limited-time great price. It also helps authors promote their work and expand their readership. Each day “featured deals” are emailed out to the readers with books that are 1) in genres they love to read and 2) at deeply discounted prices.
Sounds amazing, right?
The catch for authors: It can be pretty pricey. You pay up front if your book is selected, a pre-determined price listed right on their website based on your discounted price and genre. The process was said to be super selective. There are no guarantees.
Flash forward to 2018, when I’d released a couple of books and was hoping to better promote them.
I chose to submit ADORKABLE because it had more ratings/reviews on Amazon and Goodreads than NINJA GIRL. The Bookbub editorial team supposedly looks at this (see post). I wasn’t overly confident, was scared to submit, knew that my book may not be selected–knew too that authors had started to say that Bookbub was no longer as effective, that readers were overwhelmed with discounted books and that Bookbub experiences varied widely. With nothing to lose, I submitted ADORKABLE anyway.
And miracle of miracles, it was selected for a featured deal!!! Yay, yay, yayyyyy!
My genre was teen and young adult. The discounted price was $0.99 for a limited time. The featured deal ran on a Sunday, and ADORKABLE was at the top of the email I received from Bookbub (ahhhhh!). Then I watched to see if the promotion would have any effect.
And boy did it ever!
Several new readers discovered the book, more than I could’ve ever hoped for. Several new readers discovered NINJA GIRL, too. More pages were read on Kindle Unlimited. ADORKABLE quickly skyrocketed to #1 in a couple of its categories–which yes, thankfully, it has been there before.
But the most amazing thing, the most unbelievable, I-hoped-but-never-thought-it-would-happen surprise was this:
ADORKABLE broke the Amazon Top 100!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It reached #98.
In. The. Entire. Amazon. Store.
I know…I know!!!! Incredible, right? I had to take pictures because otherwise when I look back on this, I may not believe it LOL.
Sigh. ADORKABLE‘s success has always been something I am so incredibly thankful for. I love that little book. And Bookbub rocks because it helped put Sally and Becks into the hands and hearts of new readers <3.
To celebrate, this Thursday I will be having a Facebook Giveaway!!!!! This is a way for me to connect and thank my readers, and last time, it was so fun, you guys! I hope you’ll join me this Thursday, February 22, 2018 at 7:30am PT (10:30am ET). I’ll be asking bookish questions about my books, and the prizes are $5 Amazon gift cards, 1 signed copy of ADORKABLE and 1 signed copy of NINJA GIRL!!! I love giving, and I especially love giving to you readers! Hope to see you there :).
Happy reading,
Cookie O’Gorman
Hello again, readers! It’s been a while since I last posted, but I wanted to let you what’s been going on. Basically, I ran into some back luck in the new year. My site (yes, my little author site that only like 5 people read) was hacked.
Yes, hacked.
Ugggghhh :/.
I can’t tell you how disheartening/upsetting/alarming that was–but thankfully, I found help in the form of a WordPress tech wizard named Wesley. He and his company came in and worked their magic. They got rid of all the bad stuff. I’m so thankful for his help, expertise and professionalism. It eased my mind to know that he was on the case. And seriously, he helped me get my site back up and running, so yayyyyy, hip-hip-hooray for Wesley the tech wizard!!! 🙂
In bookish news, this week I’m trying something new! BookBub is a site that helps readers find new books and that allows authors to promote their work. Like I said in my Goals post, I want to do better at promoting, so this seemed like a great opportunity. Nerves got to me; the BookBub process was said to be very selective. I’d read several blog posts about this and was worried that my book wouldn’t be selected. However, I decided to go for it anyway because what did I have to lose?
And guess what? They selected ADORKABLE for a Featured Deal!!! Huzzah!
I was elated. Part of me had trouble believing it, and I gotta say I’m so excited about this promotion!
ADORKABLE will be available for just $0.99 from January 29 until February 2, 2018. That’s Monday through Friday, you guys! If you’d help me spread the word, I’d be ever so grateful <3.
I’m also working on a giveaway! Not sure yet if it will be a Goodreads, Rafflecopter or Facebook giveaway, but I’m looking forward to it. Hint, hint: There will be signed copies of NINJA GIRL and ADORKABLE involved :).
Happy reading,
Cookie O’Gorman
P.S. I sent my next book to the formatter today, eep! And I’ve been working with my designer on a cover that makes me go starry-eyed sigh *__*. I hope you all have a great week!
I did it, guys! NINJA GIRL is now available for pre-order!!! What’s even better? A few awesome people have already pre-ordered the book, and that just makes me over-the-moon ecstatic :).
If you want more awesome…
ADORKABLE will be available for just $0.99 for the next week! Yes, that’s right; it’s time for a Kindle Countdown Deal! I’m really hoping that the promotion will drive more traffic to the upcoming release of NINJA GIRL and make this kickass YA romance more visible. For whatever reason–fear, nervousness, self-doubt, take your pick–I’ve been reticent about promoting this release. And it makes me so frustrated will myself. Ugh.
This is one time when I wish I was less introverted and more scream-it-from-the-rootops-I-LOVE-THIS-BOOK extroverted. I love Ash. I love Snow. I love my second book baby, and I really hope readers will embrace and love it, too <3.
I hope you all have a great week–and I can’t believe NINJA GIRL comes out this Thursday!
Happy reading,
Cookie O’Gorman
Okay, so a lot of things have happened in the past few days.
Several people helped with the cover reveal of NINJA GIRL last week, and I just gotta say: YOU ALL ROCK! Thank you so much for your support! I received some awesome book mail from my Hungarian publisher–which really brightened up my Saturday. <3 I reached my goal of 70 people adding NINJA GIRL to Goodreads pre-release (which is sweeet :)). And I set up the giveaway below–because of course, we had to have a giveaway to mark the awesome/kickass/splendiferous occasion of NINJA GIRL‘s upcoming release March 30, 2017.
And yes, I have always wanted to use the word “splendiferous” in a sentence. This seemed like the right time :).
The NINJA GIRL Giveaway will run from March 23 until April 13, and the winner will receive a $25 Amazon gift card! There are several ways to enter, and that means tons of chances to win!
Now, I’m off to try and add NINJA GIRL on Amazon, hoping for no hiccups and that the process goes smoothly. I wish you all the best of luck with the giveaway, and I really hope you’ll check out NINJA GIRL when it comes out next Thursday!!! Ahh, can’t believe it’s so close!
Hope you have a great week!
Happy reading,
Cookie O’Gorman
Merry Christmas, everyone!
Okay, so technically it’s the day-after Christmas–but still, I hope everyone had a great holiday. This marks the conclusion of the ADORKABLE Christmas Giveaway :). Thank you so much to everyone who entered; you’re fantastic! And without further ado…the winner of the giveaway is…
Julie!!!
Congratulations, Julie! I will be sending your $25 Amazon gift card tonight, and thank you again for entering :).
I also wanted to say thank you to all of the people who participated in my first Facebook giveaways. The questions were all about ADORKABLE, and some of you readers actually showed up! Yayyy! You ladies made it so much fun, AND you really knew your stuff. It was amazing to interact with actual readers. They were wonderful; it was wonderful. I will most definitely be doing something like it again in the future!
One more huge thank you to everyone who helped spread the word about the ADORKABLE Kindle Countdown Deal. My goal was to make the book even more affordable for people around the Christmas holidays, but I didn’t expect it to go as well as it did. ADORKABLE hit #1 on Amazon and stayed there all yesterday. As of this posting, it’s still hanging in there. It was a great surprise, such a cool Christmas gift, and it wouldn’t have been possible without you readers.
Merry (day-after) Christmas, Happy Holidays, and much love to all of you wonderful bookworms!
Happy reading,
Cookie O’Gorman
It’s giveaway time again!
This is supposed to be the season for giving and good cheer and all that good stuff. I really do love giving–even though I don’t have a whole lot to give. Ugh.
But like I said, I love giving especially to you ADORKABLE readers :). I’m calling this one the ADORKABLE Christmas Giveaway, and it will be open from midnight on December 15 until December 25th. You can enter to win a $25 Amazon gift card using the widget below, my Christmas present to you!
I wish you so much luck. May the odds be ever in your favor. May your days be merry and bright. And as always: May the Force be with you.
I hope you have a great week.
Happy Reading,
Cookie O’Gorman