I'm joining these other wonderful
bloggers on the book tour!
Not exact matches
When you say you and the other
bloggers are
on the
book tour — where will the
book tour be travelling?
This Christmas
tour was started in 2006 by one of my favorite
bloggers on the planet, Sophie from BooMama (please tell me you've read her
books?!)
Once we contact
bloggers, we add in
bloggers who want to review first, and then fill in the remaining
tour stops with
bloggers who want to host an interview,
book excerpts, and so
on.
I devoted a ton of time into finding
bloggers to review /
tour for this
book, so both sides worked pretty hard
on this launch.
If you are organising a giveaway during your
book tour, and are worried about the implications this might have
on Amazon reviews, you can request for
bloggers to write a disclosure.
Amy writes about the heightened popularity of
book bloggers at BEA, and Natasha takes readers
on a
tour inside some of New York's biggest publishing houses.
A
book blogger should never have to give a more positive review than they feel a
book deserves, and neither should an author waste time and money
on a
book tour that doesn't actually promote their
books.
Rather,
on the assigned
tour day, the
blogger would post a blog about the author's
book.
As a brand - new
blogger who just happened to like a
book and chat about it, and just give the author a heads - up, suddenly I find my blog offered a spot
on a blog -
tour — without me having Clue No.
Also part of the
On Blogging
tour: MotherReader admonishes
book bloggers to «play nicely».
Instead, blog
tours give you the opportunity to work with
book bloggers to help promote your
book and reach more people than you would
on a
book tour.
I've done a couple of blog
tours tied with
book launches and especially appreciated how diligent the
bloggers were at posting their reviews
on sites like Amazon and Goodreads as well as their own blogs: that really helped my
books get early traction.
As I am getting ready to launch my first
book and learning the ropes in the cyber world I have been thinking about getting my
book on some sort of a blog
tour or to a
blogger.
Making sure you have the time to dedicate to a VBT, providing
bloggers with all the information they need, saying thanks, being creative, and letting people know you're
on a virtual
book tour, will make your experience a lot easier too.
Its main purpose is to generate interest and increase awareness of the author's
book on each blog that is part of the
tour by reaching the followers of a specific
blogger, thus exposing the author's
book to a wide and varied audience and potential readers who would hopefully buy the
book once it is published or made available for sale.
«I found that
bloggers on my virtual
book tour and
book reviewers whom I connected with through social media were much more committed to actually reviewing my
book.»
Blog
tours are a lot of work, but they can be a great way to get more eyeballs
on your
book, as well as help you make connections with
book bloggers, reviewers and other authors in your genre.
While there are several virtual
book tour models, ranging from a one day audio interview to a multi-day
book tour, from a multi-day visit to the same site to a one day blog blitz, the most effective approach is where you participate as a guest
blogger on numerous sites that attract your target audience.
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.
We are planning to work with romance
bloggers and others to make this type of
book tour possible, but a great deal depends
on how much time and effort the author wants to put into it.
The «what» should be specific enough to give you a sense of scope, offering specifics
on target categories — mom
bloggers for a virtual
book tour, for example — and quantities — say, 25 of the most appropriate mom
bloggers.
A
book blog
tour, as its name implies, is the online version of the traditional bookstore
tour but instead of visiting physical brick and mortal
book shops, you go from one
blogger's website to another
on the internet.
A virtual event could be a stop
on a
book blog
tour in which the publicist has made arrangements for the
blogger's local bookstore to sell signed copies of the author's
book.
If you missed Part One of the
bloggers» inspired rooms
on this
book launch
tour, you can catch up here.