Not exact matches
Virtual book
tours are a promotional tool for
authors to connect with readers via well - read book blogs and specialty.
With a
virtual book
tour, all an
author has to do is find and work with a blog
tour host or company.
Book blogs, topical blogs, podcasts and online radio shows are potential hosts for
virtual book
tours, where
authors visit a different site each day promoting their book.
On a
virtual book
tour,
authors promote their books by making «
virtual» guest appearances during a particular time frame on blogs, podcasts, radio shows, social networks, or other
virtual venues.
For detailed, step - by - step instructions on how to organize your own successful
virtual book tour, check out the Virtual Book Tour Magic guidebook for authors, available at www.VirtualBookTourMag
virtual book
tour, check out the
Virtual Book Tour Magic guidebook for authors, available at www.VirtualBookTourMag
Virtual Book
Tour Magic guidebook for
authors, available at www.VirtualBookTourMagic.com.
Her how - to guidebooks teach
authors how to get book reviews, organize
virtual book
tours, and more.
Most
authors know about
virtual book
tours.
Authors and publishers who are seeking book promotion opportunities may be ditching the multi-city book
tour — which is expensive, time - consuming, and disruptive — in favor of
virtual book
tours.
While we also cover social media,
virtual book
tours, public speaking, and other tactics, I want participating
authors to benefit from the fact that legitimate, traditional media outlets still carry a great deal of weight with book buyers.
Inside these pages, discover: Exactly how to take your book on
tour, around the globe, without leaving home; How to identify and connect with new audiences who are hungry for your content; The top four social networks for
authors; How to locate and line up
tour hosts for your
virtual book
tour; And more!
As a
virtual assistant for a best - selling romantic suspense
author, I was looking for a good blog
tour company that could deliver on a short deadline.
Bringing you informative articles and advice on dating, romance, love, relationships, featured romance
authors,
virtual book
tours, interviews, events, movie trailers, and so much more.
Author Barbara Crane hired me as her book publicist to organize a
virtual tour for her historical fiction, When Water Was Everywhere, winner of a Beverly Hills Book Award.
She promotes
authors and sets up
virtual book
tours through Enchanted Book Promotions.
I organize
virtual book
tours and other promotional events for
authors on Enchanted Book Promotions.
A
virtual book
tour utilizes access to these specific audiences by highlighting the
author and their book for a day on their «blog».
Publicists can both directly and indirectly effect book sales through their book marketing efforts, including promoting a
virtual tour, securing
author interviews, leveraging the
author's book blog and social networking profiles, and utilizing the
author's media kit.
Maybe it would, but name the bookstore that would be willing to take a chance on setting up a Skype
virtual book
tour (it's tough enough to arrange a book signing for self - published — or even lesser known mainstream published —
authors!).
D'vorah Lansky: As far as «ideal length» for a
virtual book
tour, that depends on the
author's goal.
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.
But with a
virtual blog
tour the
author now has the opportunity to offer readers sneak peeks, character interviews and a lot more.
A
virtual blog
tour offers the
author the opportunity to visit various book blogs and promote them and their books.
But, although it's interesting to see how Skype
virtual book
tours can be integrated into book promotion campaigns, I'm guessing that world - famous
authors will be in a far better position to take advantage of the book publicity opportunity than the rest of us... now, and for a long, long time to come.
Founded in 2011, PICT offers
virtual book
tour services for both well established and best - selling
authors, as well as those just starting out with their careers.
Janine Fourie is the founder of Sparkle Book
Tours who describes her business like this: «Sparkle Book
Tours offers
authors affordable
virtual blog
tours that will suit your budget and reach new readers.»
Lanksy offers
virtual book
tour workshops and courses for
authors, entrepreneurs, and
virtual professionals.
Today I'm honored to be participating in a
virtual book
tour for the new religious historical romance Julia's Gifts (Great War Great Love # 1) by Catholic
author Ellen Gable.
One of the biggest challenges for an
author scheduling a
virtual book
tour (
author blog
tour) is determining which blogs are worth visiting.
B&B is a member of various
virtual book
tour companies and copies of books may be provided to us by
authors, publishers, publicists, or
tour coordinators for books on
tours.
Fortunately, there are other ways to promote your book in various major metro areas including pitching phone and Skype interviews, and conducting a
virtual blog
tour (most book publicists routinely set up
virtual blog
tours for
authors — and, if you're considering a book publicist who doesn't know what a
virtual blog
tour is, then run in the opposite direction as quickly as possible!).
For my adult debut «No One» series for HarperCollins, a gracious group of aspiring
authors offered to conduct a
virtual tour for me.
Most
authors, however, haven't considered the other benefits of
virtual book
tours beside getting a review.
Authors with social - media savvy can generate a lot of attention leading up to a
virtual book
tour.
It's great information for
authors planning a
virtual book
tour (also known as the
author blog
tour).
Our
Virtual Book Tours are so popular, we help authors from other publishers facilitate virtual book tours, too, although those authors aren't mentioned on our blog or in our app (let's leave that up to THEIR publishers, sha
Virtual Book
Tours are so popular, we help
authors from other publishers facilitate
virtual book tours, too, although those authors aren't mentioned on our blog or in our app (let's leave that up to THEIR publishers, sha
virtual book
tours, too, although those
authors aren't mentioned on our blog or in our app (let's leave that up to THEIR publishers, shall we?)
In addition to all the other blog «appearances», reviews, and
author interviews that can result from a
Virtual Book Tour, we also make sure to get each of our author's virtual tours off to a great start by giving them a «tour stop» at one or more of our social community channels, whether it be a link from our Twitter account, a video uploaded to our YouTube Channel, or an interview on ou
Virtual Book
Tour, we also make sure to get each of our
author's
virtual tours off to a great start by giving them a «tour stop» at one or more of our social community channels, whether it be a link from our Twitter account, a video uploaded to our YouTube Channel, or an interview on ou
virtual tours off to a great start by giving them a «
tour stop» at one or more of our social community channels, whether it be a link from our Twitter account, a video uploaded to our YouTube Channel, or an interview on our blog.
Stauch spoke at length about what other options
authors have when planning a
virtual tour, as well as key tips to look for in online promotion where users» sites are concerned.
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tour
While
authors are often intimidated by the thought of setting up a book
tour, in reality, if you can write an e-mail message, you can set up and execute your own
virtual book
tour.
Issuing online press releases, networking with fellow
authors and doing
virtual blog
tours are just equally rewarding tools.
In her New York Times article, Kara Jesella quotes
authors and publishers on their views about the success of
virtual book blog
tours.
Authors, a
virtual book
tour is a great way to promote your book to a targeted audience and I encourage you to give it a try!
Commenting blog posts (as
author) Creating a
virtual contest for the blog
tour (utilizing Facebook and Twitter) Monitoring blog
tour's progress, maintaining blogger accountability, sending reminders.
Going on a
virtual tour can help you network with bloggers, readers, reviewers, other
authors and publishing professionals.
To learn how to organize your own successful
virtual book tour, check out my new Virtual Book Tour Magic guidebook for a
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authors.
There are many ways to promote: social media, advertising on popular websites and blogs, print advertising in trade magazines, attending reader oriented conventions and events... but one of the best ways to get your book out there and build name recognition as an
author is through a
virtual book
tour.
She eliminates the stress from
authors and writers by managing their online promotion efforts by using such strategies as
virtual book
tours, internet radio show interviews and social media marketing.
They're the
virtual equivalent of the traditional book
tour, except
authors «visit» book blogs instead of stores to promote their novels.
(By the way, the article is a great example of what
authors do on
virtual book
tours.)
Tweet Join John L. Betcher,
author of the suspense thriller, The 19th Element: A James Becker Thriller (Createspace), as he virtually
tours the blogosphere November 1 — December 17 «10 on his first
virtual book
tour with Pump Up Your Book!