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.
- Tuesday, December 2
- Father Jerry’s Jottings
- Guest post: Starting a Blog
- Wednesday, December 3
- Word Sell, Inc.
- Interview by Brad Shorr
- Thursday, December 4
- Light Within
- Guest post: Writing a Mystery: Dream or Destiny
- Friday, December 5
- Father Jerry’s Jottings
- Guest post: Blogging for Beginners
I hope to see you at each of these tour stops.
Lillie,
I never heard of a blog book tour before… What a great idea… How do you go about organizing it?
Thanks, Gary
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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.
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.
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!
Best of luck on this leg our your virtual tour. I hope to follow you.
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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.
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
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/
That’s really seems to be an very interesting book. I would like to read this definitely.
Jill,
I hope you do read it and enjoy it.
Amazon and the publisher both have the book in stock.
Interesting. I will check in later this week to see how it is going.
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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.
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.
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!
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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’
Thanks, Betty! These words mean a lot coming from you as the Hawkman series is one of my favorites.