Sentences with phrase «on traditional book tours»

Today, some authors still draw large crowds while on traditional book tours; a lot of others, not so much.

Over the years, many publishing houses have been scaling back on traditional book tours — not the least because bookstores themselves are disappearing — because travel can be expensive (and time - consuming) and sometimes there can be cheaper and just as effective ways to sell books.

With such a venomous critique of so many beloved celebrities and widely - used treatments (even multi-vitamins don't make the cut), one can only imagine that Dr. Offit isn't making the rounds on a traditional book tour, where angry mobs of chiropractors, homeopaths, Chinese medicine practitioners, and integrative medicine doctors would likely try to lynch him.

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.

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.

Then again, even in traditional publishing, writers are expected to go on book tours.

And, while your virtual book tour is a big part of your book promotion effort, keep working on your traditional book promotion efforts.

They have almost no chance of getting reviews or bestseller - list attention in prestigious traditional media; they don't do high - profile book tours; they can't point out their books in store windows or on shelves to their family and friends; they are unlikely to be guests on talk shows.

We continue to send our high profile authors on more traditional publicity tours so long as those venues are capable of selling books, and we will continue to advertise in print media.

A traditional book tour is an excellent way to connect with readers on an individual level, but often, the costs and time required to take a physical tour are prohibitive to self - published authors.

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.

In the traditional publishing world, it's normal to send an author on a book tour, where they hop from bookstore to bookstore, signing copies, reading aloud, or speak to the audience.

My traditional publisher set up a blog tour on behalf of my latest book.

An events page can be an effective tool even if you do not have a traditional book tour on the horizon.

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.

As part of our continuing efforts to be brutally honest, let's look at whether you should go on a traditional «book tour» as part of your promotional efforts.