How to Promote a Free Book

Last week I decided to run an experiment. My novella, Love at the Apple Blossom Inn, was not selling, so I decided to make it free. I dropped it's price on the Draft to Digital site, and once I'd been notified that it was free on Barnes and Noble and Apple, I contacted Amazon. It took them a few days to match the price. Friday night before I went to bed I saw that the price had dropped. Because I didn't have time over the weekend, I didn't promote the book at all. Since then, the book has been downloaded 350 times. Here are the Amazon stats.

• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,053 Free in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Free in Kindle Store)
  • #4 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Women's Fiction > Christian
  • #14 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Religious & Inspirational Fiction > Christian > Romance > Contemporary
 I just spent an hour listing it on a variety of free promotional sites. I didn't pay for any of these services and I don't know how many will actually post the book. Because many advertisers ask for the same info, I've found it easiest to make a promotional page for each of my books that I'm sharing. 
Apple Inn Promotion Sheet
URLS:http://www.amazon.com/Love-Apple-Blossom-Inn-Novella-ebook/dp/B00RYHPASY/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1438622787&sr=8-5&keywords=kristy+tate
B00RYHPASY
https://store.kobobooks.com/en-ca/ebook/love-at-the-apple-blossom-inn
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/love-at-the-apple-blossom-inn-kristy-tate/1121014697?ean=2940151733731
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/love-at-the-apple-blossom-inn/id956417980?mt=11
BIO: Kristy studied English literature at Brigham Young University and at BYU's International Center in London.
For updates on Kristy's upcoming novels, please visit her blog at kristystories.blogspot.com
BLURB:A small town girl.
A rock star living a lie.
Their paths cross and lead them down a road neither of them expected to find: love at the Apple Blossom Inn.
Janey knows that life doesn’t come with a happy-ending guarantee. She needs to keep her feet securely on the ground working two jobs, going to school, and caring for her little brother. She has no time or room for romance.
After an accident leaves his charmed life in ruins, Derrick abandons his Hollywood lifestyle and checks into rehab. The world believes that Derrick Cordell the rock star is dead. And despite his beating heart and breathing lungs, that’s exactly how he feels until, disguised and living incognito in the tiny town of Rose Arbor, Washington, he meets Janey, who loves him as plain old Eric Roudell, the wanna-be music teacher.
But secrets have a way of unraveling. When Janey discovers the truth about Eric/Derrick, how can she love someone she doesn’t even know? Especially since love is not on her to-do list?
AUGUST/ free sites
http://addictedtoebooks.com/content/todays-free-kindle-books#comment-13213
http://www.freebooksy.com/editorial-submissions/?utm_campaign=editorial-submissions&utm_source=Bargain+Booksy&utm_medium=referral
http://blog.booksontheknob.org/subscribe-about-contact/authors-read-this
http://bookangel.co.uk/submit-your-book/
http://awesomegang.com/submit-your-book/
http://ereaderutopia.com/author/books/8231
http://indiebookoftheday.com/authors/sponsorships/
http://www.freebookdude.com/2014/03/list-your-free-amazon-kindle-books.html
http://askdavid.com/free-ebook-promotion
http://ebookshabit.com/for-authors/
http://www.armadilloebooks.com/submit-free-ebooks/
http://igniteyourbook.com/free-ebook-submission/
http://www.frugal-freebies.com/p/submit-freebie.html
http://www.iloveebooks.com/for-authors.html
http://newfreekindlebooks.com/authors/
https://ohfb.com/author-free-kindle-book-submission.html
http://bookpraiser.com/submit-your-perma-free-book-to-bookpraiser/?submission=Permanent-Free%20Book
I'll update this at the end of the week with promotion results. Of course, I'm hoping that this will help sell my other Rose Arbor books. To date, that really hasn't happened.