{"id":3304,"date":"2013-07-01T20:35:04","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T00:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/?p=3304"},"modified":"2013-07-01T20:35:04","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T00:35:04","slug":"smashing-the-budget-barrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/01\/smashing-the-budget-barrier\/","title":{"rendered":"Smashing The Budget Barrier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It's July - so y'all know what that means, right? \u00a0Yep. \u00a0It's time for the annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/books\/category\/1\/newest\/1\" target=\"_blank\">Smashwords Summer\/Winter Sale<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Books by many of your favorite authors are available at SW this month at discounted prices varying from 25% off all the way to free. \u00a0ALL OF MY BOOKS ARE 50% OFF for the promo.<\/p>\n<p>As SW owner and all-around ebook Guru, Mark Coker says, \"It's that time of year again for our annual\u00a0<strong>Smashwords Summer\/Winter Sale<\/strong> promotion, running July 1 through July 31!\u00a0 It's summer here in the northern hemisphere, and winter for our reader friends south of the equator. The promotion's cheeky \"Summer\/Winter\" name acknowledges the fact that there's a global market for ebooks...\"<\/p>\n<p>This year, there's a special reason for everyone to LOAD UP on all my books at Smashwords -- <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.smashwords.com\/2013\/07\/smashwords-and-publishers-weekly-launch.html\" target=\"_blank\">SW and Publisher's Weekly just launched a monthly bestseller list.<\/a> It will feature the top 25 \u00a0highest grossing SW ebooks for each month and the top 10 from the list will appear in the print issue of Publisher's Weekly. \u00a0The first month's list rated the top 25 ebooks based on May sales.<\/p>\n<p>I'm very proud to note that 16 of the top 25 on the list are romance novels. \u00a0A big congrats to the SW authors who made the first list. \u00a0HOWEVER, ahm, \u00a0**clears throat** \u00a0I must note that unfortunately -- none of my books made the debut list. \u00a0And all of you know what that means, right?<\/p>\n<p>It means you should rush over to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/books\/category\/1\/newest\/1\" target=\"_blank\">Summer\/Winter sale <\/a>and buy all my books - and if you own them already, buy several dozen copies of each book and give them to your friends as either Beach or Snuggle Under the Comforter reads, depending on your hemisphere, of course.<\/p>\n<p>There are enough quackers out there to waddle at least a couple of my books onto next month's list! \u00a0So head on over to Smashwords and be sure your button finger is nimble enough to set new speed records.<\/p>\n<p>This sale is the best way to fill up your ereader with great books at prices that will smash your budget barrier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It's July - so y'all know what that means, right? \u00a0Yep. \u00a0It's time for the annual Smashwords Summer\/Winter Sale. Books by many of your favorite authors are available at SW this month at discounted prices varying from 25% off all the way to free. \u00a0ALL OF MY BOOKS ARE 50% OFF for the promo. As <a href=\"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/01\/smashing-the-budget-barrier\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Smashing The Budget Barrier\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3304"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3309,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3304\/revisions\/3309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}