Blog Book Tour This Week

December 1, 2008 by Lillie 

After my recent three-week blog book tour, I decided I would make shorter tours in the future. This week, I’m taking a short tour with four stops. I hope you will visit the host blogs and comment. It’s a lot of work for a blogger to host a blog book tour stop, and I want my hosts to know they are appreciated.

The stops on this tour are at blogs that don’t focus primarily on books and writing. I’m excited about the opportunity to reach new readers through these blogs.

I hope to see you at each of these tour stops.

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Comment by Gary Sims
2008-12-01 11:07:52

Lillie,

I never heard of a blog book tour before… What a great idea… How do you go about organizing it?

Thanks, Gary

Gary Sims´s last blog post..Providing Maximum Efficiency with Virtualization Technologies

Comment by Lillie
2008-12-01 11:48:52

Gary,

I joined a yahoo group that helped me learn a lot. I will be posting a wrap-up report of the first tour next week. The blog post will be fairly brief and general, but I have a PDF file that goes into detail on what I did to set it up. I had intended to post the report before now, but I have been waiting for feedback from some of my hosts.

 
 
Comment by JeanHenryMead
2008-12-01 11:37:37

I look forward to your next tour, Lillie, and to stopping here on my own blog tour, which started today, on December 11. My schedule is up at: http://myblogtour.blogspot.com/.

Your book arrived today from Amazon.com and I look forward to reading it.

Comment by Lillie
2008-12-01 12:00:03

Jean,

I’m looking forward to following your tour and especially to your visit here.

Hope you enjoy my book as much as I enjoyed yours!

 
 
Comment by Helen Ginger
2008-12-01 20:40:03

Best of luck on this leg our your virtual tour. I hope to follow you.

Helen Ginger´s last blog post..Future of Books Debated

Comment by Lillie
2008-12-02 01:33:21

Thank you, Helen. The first leg of my tour was a lot of fun, and I visited some terrific hosts—including Straight from Hel. I’m looking forward to this short jaunt as well.

 
 
Comment by Hart Granite Subscribed to comments via email
2008-12-02 10:46:23

Hi Lillie,

I, along with Gary am also unaware of this subject and am very interested to learn more.

I know you said that you are posting a wrap-up report, but are you able to disclose the yahoo group where you learned about it?

Cheers in advance, even if the answer is No ;)

Andy

Comment by Lillie
2008-12-02 10:56:57

Andy,

The yahoo group is blogbooktours: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blogbooktours/

It has a limited membership of authors planning tours. Prospective members have to give the title of a book they will be promoting and must wait for an opening. When their tour is over, they leave the group to make room for someone new. But while you’re there, you learn a lot.

The moderator of the group has a blog where she gives lots of information on the subject: http://www.blogbooktours.blogspot.com/

 
 
Comment by Jill Hin
2008-12-02 12:01:19

That’s really seems to be an very interesting book. I would like to read this definitely.

Comment by Lillie
2008-12-02 17:52:51

Jill,
Amazon and the publisher both have the book in stock. :-) I hope you do read it and enjoy it.

 
 
Comment by john from Mepps Black Fury
2008-12-02 21:04:19

Interesting. I will check in later this week to see how it is going.

john´s last blog post..Spinnere

Comment by Lillie
2008-12-02 21:13:53

John,
I hope you’ll visit all the tour stops. I’d like my hosts to see some traffic from my readers, and I think you’ll find the blogs—and my posts!—interesting.

 
 
Comment by cel
2008-12-03 04:13:21

I’m not really familiar with how a blog book tour goes about. I’m hoping to know more about it. Maybe I’ll take time to visit this site again.

Comment by Lillie
2008-12-03 04:41:30

cel,
I’ll be visiting a different blog each day of the tour as indicated on the schedule.

The purpose is for me to introduce my novel to new people, the readers of the blogs I visit. I also want to send some traffic to those blogs as well because it’s a lot of work to host a blog book tour stop.

On this tour, I’ll have one interview—tomorrow at WordSell—and three guest posts. I’ll also be available on the blogs to answer readers’ questions in comments.

You will see that a couple of the stops are specifically about my book. The other two guest posts are on blogging. That is what the host asked for, but I also got to promote my book at the end of the post.

I had a three-week tour recently, and the posts are still at the host blogs: interviews, reviews, and even a podcast. You can view the schedule for that tour and maybe see a blog you’d like to visit. That will give you a good idea of what a blog book tour is all about.

Hope to see you on my blog book tour stops!

 
 
2009-04-23 03:45:53

Hi, Lillie,

I just finished “DREAM OR DESTINY” and wanted you to know I enjoyed it tremendously. I know it took me awhile to get through it, but I’ve had a platter full and made your book my treat when I got something accomplished. Well, tonight, I cheated and read to the end….:-) Thank you for a most entertaining story. God Bless…

Hugs, Betty Sullivan La Pierre
Author of the renowned ‘Hawkman Series’

Comment by Lillie
2009-04-23 03:49:10

Thanks, Betty! These words mean a lot coming from you as the Hawkman series is one of my favorites.

 
 

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