How many front list
authors go on tour and report back about hosting events where a handful of people showed up and only a few copies of their books were sold?
Not exact matches
The indie writers who are now wanting to
go with a traditional publisher because — duh — they will get this huge advance and will be sent
on tours to sign their books and will soon be playing poker with other best selling
authors ala Castle.
Back when my first novel was published in 1997,
authors went on book
tours, scheduling talks and signings at bookstores, groceries, and even stopping at drugstores and big - box retail stores to sign books
on the shelves.
Likwise,
authors could
go on tour.
People can still buy this uninformed dating book after the
author has
gone on a national
tour saying that he was wrong and has repeatedly apologized for it
on Twitter.
I've been biding my time, waiting through one interview after another as the
author goes on his anti-publicity
tour where he admits he managed to publish a Christian book
on dating that was deeply flawed and hoping that the publisher will pull the book.
Self - published
authors aren't the only ones taking advantage of blog
tours, even large publishers and many bestselling
authors are
going on interviews and blog posts of bloggers and interviewers from around the web.
We do our
tours for 90 days, but generally that's because an
author doesn't want to hire a PR firm forever (though I would love that:)-- but if you're doing this
on your own, keep
going!
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.
A number of artists and
authors end up
going on tours to conventions or trade shows to get their name out there.
An
author certainly does not
go it alone, but has an agent in their corner, lending the assist
on PR and book
tours.
If you want to be a REAL
author and have your book for sale in a bookstore,
go on book
tours and have an agent, submit your book to a publisher and see what they say.
No worries, just
go on a world
tour of
authors!
I blog weekly (
on both my
author blog and my business blog), I guest blog, I write for Huffington Post, IndieReader.com, FeminineCollective.com, I pay for low - cost ads, I do occasional blog
tours and book promos, I do two Twitter chats, have a newsletter, a street team... it
goes on.
I
went on a book
tour with a group of trad - published
authors.
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.
Going on a virtual
tour can help you network with bloggers, readers, reviewers, other
authors and publishing professionals.
Going on an
author blog
tour?
As an
author,
going on a blog
tour immediately introduces you to a number of bloggers where you'll be supplying a guest post pertinent to their site, as well as all their readers.
It's a clichéd story for those of us who have been in publishing for more than five or ten years, but we really did used to write proposals that included a marketing section that said something along the lines of «
author is willing to
go on book
tours and will make themselves available for TV and radio interviews.»
First, the basics: for those of you who attended the book blogger panel at BEA, you will have heard the blog
tour explained as an
author going from blog to blog (rather than from store to store as they would
on a traditional book
tour) which is a great, quick way to explain it.
My wife is an
author, and when her first book came out in January 2013, she, I and our two kids
went on a 7 month book
tour.
Editorial Reviews From the
Author I wrote this book because my best friend
went on a whistle - stop 10 day, 4 country
tour of the Far East.
The Intercept
goes on a
tour of these physical markers of the digital world with Ingrid Burrington,
author of Networks of New York: An Illustrated Field Guide to Urban Internet Infrastructure.