Before going any further, I would like to say that this is my opinion solely based on my experience with booking
author tours for the last couple of years.
Websites, blogs, social media, readings and signings, podcasts,
virtual author tours, etc. — the things that authors can do — are important.
This is the first of a three - part series on setting up your
own author tour.
Readers want to know times and dates
of author tours, book signings and appearances.
Services include: Radio interviews to
promote author tours, author training, coaching and mentoring.
Great advances, first class air tickets and hotels,
author tours for every book were the norm.
Given Green's sharp writing for GothamSchools (now Chalkbeat), the publishers anticipated something approaching a blockbuster («a six -
city author tour....
HIGH - DEMAND BACKSTORY: The buzz is loud and will continue to be so when literary star Saunders goes on a
national author tour supported by an all - platform media blitz.
HIGH - DEMAND BACKSTORY: An
extensive author tour and national publicity campaign are just the tip of the marketing - plan iceberg for this latest from Caldecott - winning Klassen.
Offers traditional publicity service
including author tours, event planning, press kit development, magazine and newspaper placements, Internet marketing, and radio phoner campaigns.
She has been invited to speak as a resume subject matter expert on national television, featured on 26 city
radio author tours nationwide and continues to be guest speaker on national and internet radio shows today.
When I asked someone at the publishing company where the third author had appeared from I was told that the new author had always been a key member of the team, responsible for keeping track of the plot lines, but had come to the fore recently because she was the most comfortable
doing author tours.
SMP had claimed, in galleys, to be «committed to a number of major marketing efforts, such as a
national author tour for Hamilton, and a national ad campaign for the book.»
Our book marketing challenge could be considered an «in house» virtual book tour, this blog hob could be considered a
virtual author tour.
HIGH - DEMAND BACKSTORY: Buzz has long been building for Gay's memoir, with which she'll go on an
extensive author tour.
HIGH - DEMAND BACKSTORY: Simpson is a great literary favorite, and this winning novel will be supported by a
cross-country author tour and plenty of publicity.
So the question I put out there is this... «What is the REAL return on
your author tour investment?»
HIGH - DEMAND BACKSTORY: An all - fronts publicity campaign, augmented by a 15 - city
author tour, will ensure fervent interest in best - selling McLain's timely novel about a historic journalist.
HIGH - DEMAND BACKSTORY: With
an author tour, a major promotional campaign, and a film adaptation already in the works, publishers are banking on Niven's YA debut to be a hit.
HIGH - DEMAND BACKSTORY: A stalwart of children's literature, Joyce will drive inherent interest even further with
an author tour.
HIGH - DEMAND BACKSTORY:
An author tour and powerhouse promotional plan will mean lots of attention for best - selling Shusterman's latest endeavor.
So I lived through it, I remember when
the author tour started in the mid-1980s, and then became, sort of, I mean people have to do it, but it's hardly as fresh, and then what's happening in the Internet.
Acting as a clearing house for Jewish Book Month events is part of the Jewish Book Council's overall mission to promote the reading, writing, publishing and distribution of quality Jewish content books in English, as well as to serve as the coordinating body of Jewish literary activity in North America in both general and Jewish venues, advising local communities on exhibits, book fairs, book club appearances,
author tours and other literary programs.
Budgets are being slashed at all ends of the publishing process from advances to marketing to promotional placements to
author tours.
I can do spotlight / promo / excert and about
the author tour, with a giveaway.
The avenue that we're currently exploring is
the author tour, book signings, and / or bookstore events.
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It's similar to the music industry in
that authors tour the country like musicians doing appearances to sell books.
400,000 first printing;
author tour.
HIGH - DEMAND BACKSTORY: Award - winning, critically - acclaimed Zarr is getting the full treatment for her latest, including
an author tour.
High Demand Backstory: National advertising, a six - city
author tour, an author video, and TV and print and radio publicity are all part of the publisher's campaign behind Tóibín's latest.
HIGH - DEMAND BACKSTORY: A national
author tour and promotions at BEA and Comic - Con will help start the buzz for this author, who has already proven she can draw a crowd.
HIGH - DEMAND BACKSTORY: Multi-award-winner Sachar will launch this book with
an author tour and national media campaign, increasing demand for the already popular author.
HIGH - DEMAND BACKSTORY: Yoon's debut became a best - seller, so the publisher is giving this a strong push that includes a national
author tour.
A big promo campaign and
author tour will help build the hype for her latest.
With a video game,
author tour, and major outdoor advertising, this could be even huger.
Virtual
author tours and book blog tours seem to have revolutionised how authors promote and sell their books.
As an author who started with traditional publishing in the 80's, my books launched (jeeze, we didn't even use that phrase then) with
an author tour.