Mihaela (Mig) Lica at eWritings – Online Public Relations tagged me for the “Don’t Buy That Book Meme.” After being disappointed by a highly-hyped book, Mig asked the questions: Have You Ever Regretted Buying a Book? Why? The purpose of the meme is to help fellow bloggers avoid book buying mistakes, a laudable goal. One caveat, … Read more
Jean Henry Mead of A Western Historical Happening awarded me the Honest Scrap Award for “telling it like it is.” I’m a little confused about the meaning of honest scrap, but perhaps it refers to an honest “detached piece of something written or printed.” Recipients are supposed to tell ten honest (and interesting) things about themselves, so … Read more
photo credit: Pamela Heywood (Secret Tenerife) And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. And … Read more
Karen Swim’s post I Gave at the Office started me thinking about past Christmases. Karen wrote about obligatory office gift-giving and offered several excellent alternatives. I’ve worked alone for a dozen years or so now so I don’t deal with these issues. But when I owned an interior landscape company, we always had a dinner for … Read more
Joanna Young at Confident Writing has given us a real challenge: pick simply the best post for all of 2008. First I narrowed down my favorite posts to one per month for Middle Zone Musings’ Blogapaloo0za. That was hard enough to do—one month I had to choose one from among three top favorites. Then I … Read more
You’ve probably seen those mysterious hints around the blogosphere of something big coming to Middle Zone Musings soon. And you’ve probably been wondering what in tarnation Robert is up to now! The secret is out. You can read the complete announcement at BLOGAPALOOZA – What I Learned From 2008. To participate, write a post with … Read more
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In the last installment, we talked about what authors can do to make their blog books more successful. Now we’ll look at advice for hosts. Start by reading 30 Tips for Blog Tour Hosts by Helen Ginger. Helen hosts many authors, including me, at her blog Straight from Hel, and she’s used her experience and the … Read more
In my last post, I described what a blog book tour is. Instead of traveling to bookstores and sitting around waiting for someone to buy a book for the author to sign, the author travels to blogs. The visit may consist of a guest post, an interview, a review, an excerpt from the author’s book, … Read more
I recently took two blog book tours for my romantic suspense novel Dream or Destiny. The first tour lasted three weeks and included seventeen stops; the second tour lasted less than a week and included four stops. After the first tour, I wrote a wrap-up report of the tour that I hope will be helpful … Read more