As an indie author, I have a month long
blog tour scheduled for my upcoming release.
I had
blog tours scheduled.
Not exact matches
In addition to a
scheduled blog tour, we're inviting up to 75 readers to be part of a Launch Team for A Year of Biblical Womanhood.
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We often have to set release date deadlines to
schedule advertising,
blog tours, or reviewers.
There are pre-release activities (gathering emails for beta / ARC readers),
scheduling a
blog tour (after book release), connecting with readers, bloggers, reviewers (before, during, after, all the damn time)!
If you're planning to
schedule your own
blog tour to promote a new novel or poetry collection, then you need to know...
The idea of a
blog tour can be immediately exciting to many authors and publicists who run into logistical hurtles when planning a traditional book
tour (e.g. high costs for travel, coordinating special shipments of books to arrive in time,
scheduling events with various stores all with their own full calendars, and bringing in a big enough audience at each venue to make it all worthwhile).
We're
scheduling a
tour for nonfiction «The Author's Guide to
Blog Tours».
D'vorah is the author of Book Marketing Made Easy: Simple Strategies for Selling Your Nonfiction Book Online — Visit her book
blog and check out the full virtual book
tour schedule and special gifts with purchase at: www.BookMarketingMadeEasy.com.
Keep in mind that your book publicist probably will not give you a full list of the
blogs that you might appear on until you have already agreed to pay for the
scheduled blog tour.
One of the biggest challenges for an author
scheduling a virtual book
tour (author
blog tour) is determining which
blogs are worth visiting.
The
blog tour host or company handles the rest: placing the call for book readers, matching interested readers,
scheduling dates, setting up advertisements (optional), and following up with readers.
Set up your author
blog and website,
schedule blog tours, develop a strong social media presence and make yourself available for as many interviews as possible.
The same holds true if you're launching a book,
scheduling release parties, promotional events, online
blog tours, cover reveals, etc..
They have to identify and contact the best people to write cover blurbs, write their own announcement releases because the staff publicist doesn't have time to do it justice, create their own media lists for review copies,
blog / tweet / post,
schedule book signings (yawn...), generate story ideas for traditional media, create their own virtual book
tour, and on and on.
Do a
blog post on the day the
tour starts, listing the
tour schedule and linking to the first stop.
Quill and Ink Tours — I am using them to
schedule my
blog tour for Eliesmore and the Green Stone.
Looking at your calendar and realizing you only have 45 days before your next release can be a powerful catalyst — 45 days to complete your WIP,
schedule book covers, allow time for editing, organize
blog tours, target reviewers for advance copies, etc..
Schedule blog tour stops.
I couldn't sleep at night as my to - do list grew:
blog tours, publicity plans,
touring schedules.
A
blog tour is series of pre-arranged
blog posts, usually
scheduled during the months just before and just after a book launch.
Ultimately, a well - organized
blog tour, complete with an accessible, easy - to - follow
schedule with links for readers who wish to follow your
blog - hopping exploits can certainly be worthwhile, but it's best to keep your expectations firmly grounded in reality.
The one that ensures we have a huge marketing machine selling the heck out of our books, royalty checks pouring in, and a personal assistant who
schedules our
blog tours, book signings, workshop presentations, and makes sure we have time for a mani / pedi.
Visit her book
blog and check out the full
schedule for the virtual book
tour, celebrating the launch of this exciting new book: VirtualBookTour21Ways
To
schedule an author interview or to learn more about getting involved in author chats,
blog hops and
tours, please contact us at
[email protected].
To clarify — since this can get confusing — with
blog tours (or with radio or TV
tours), publishing houses aren't paying bloggers (or radio or TV hosts) to cover a book; we're paying someone to
schedule the
tour: finding
blogs that would be appropriate for the book, arranging dates for the reviews / interviews, reporting back to us about who is running what when, etc..
For example, Natasha from Maw Books
Blog, mentions that authors sometimes contact her directly to schedule a «stop» on a blog t
Blog, mentions that authors sometimes contact her directly to
schedule a «stop» on a
blog t
blog tour.
An interesting discussion emerged on Colleen Mondor's
blog Chasing Ray a couple days ago about the
blog book
tour and in particular who
schedules them and how they are set up.
The
blog tour coordinator (or the freelance publicist or online marketing company) only gets paid for being the liaison between the publishing house and the blogger — for doing the «party planning» that is involved in
scheduling the
blog tour.
Since it takes time (and expertise) to
schedule blog tours, publishing companies sometimes feel it is worthwhile to pay a third party — an online marketing company, a freelance publicist, a
blog tour company, etc. — to set these up.
Visit her book
blog and check out the full
schedule for the virtual book
tour, celebrating the launch of this exciting new book: www.VirtualBookTour21Ways.com
I'm
scheduling a virtual book
tour from [insert
tour start date] to [insert
tour end date] and would love to make [insert name of
blog, podcast, or social media channel] a «stop» if you're interested.
Anyway, the next thing I did was
schedule a 45 - day
blog tour.