There is a lot going on right now—more even than I expected to be dealing with during a non-writing month. The editing side of things is going well, but there are a lot of other projects in the works that I’m hoping will make a huge difference with regards to how many people are finding the Reflections books.

As you’ll have seen from my last post, I was overwhelmed by the responses to the survey, and there were a ton of times where I wished that I could properly recognize so many of you for what you are doing to help spread the word.

I’ve been playing around with an idea for most of the last three years, tweaking it here and there, and I’m finally ready to implement my Rewards Program. I’ve been calling it Rabid Rewards, but I don’t know how everyone else feels about that name. I was a pretty ‘rabid’ Twilight fan (and proud of it) back when the last few book were being released, so I don’t feel like it’s a pejorative, but I’ll leave it up to all of you whether or not you’re okay with the program being called Rabid Rewards.

The basic idea is that I’ve created a worksheet that you can use to track certain activities (reviews you’ve left, friends you’ve turned into fellow Reflections fans, books you’ve read). Each activity is worth a certain amount of points and I’ve put in place an online form where you can enter your point totals as often as you would like.

Approximately once a month I’ll go through and eliminate any duplicate entries (so only your most recent entry is counted) and then I’ll randomly (random, but the more points you have the more likely you are to win) draw a winner and award them cool Reflections prizes. The first drawing is going to be for a signed proof (the first completed copy—it usually takes me two or three proofs before I get a book just right, you’ll be getting the last proof, so in my opinion it’s even better than a signed first edition 🙂 of Broken with the new old cover, and an advanced reader copy of Shattered.

This is a pilot program—if tons of you jump on board and submit point totals then I’ll keep running it and hopefully be able to keep expanding on the coolness of the prizes. If this isn’t something that many of you are excited about, then I’ll eventually mothball the program and move on in search of something else that is more exciting to you. 🙂

Here’s a link to Rabid Rewards Example Worksheet  (for your records).

Here’s a link to the online form where you submit your numbers for the official drawing.

Here’s a link to the Rewards Program Description on my new forum.

The fine print:

This program is largely on-your-honor. I will however ask for a copy of your tracking worksheet and I’ll do some limited checking/auditing of your total. For example if you say that you’ve left five reviews I might ask for links to four of them, if you indicate that you bought Lost as a new release I may ask for the screenshot from Amazon showing that you purchased it when you say you did.

Believe me that I don’t ever want to have to not award someone a prize because they fibbed on their numbers, so please be honest. I have a great group of fans, so I don’t expect this to be an issue, but it was a concern for some of the fans that I initially presented the idea to, so I feel like it’s only right to give them the assurance that there will be some checking going on to try and make sure people aren’t cheating.