Book Blogs

What are they & How can I participate & profit from them?

Definition of a Book Blog

• Blogs that are about Books
• books everyone is reading now
• will be reading soon
• Books that have been read
• Bookworm forums

What is a Book Blog Tour

an author going from blog to blog

(rather than from store to store as they would on a traditional book tour)

Other Posts Book Blogs Have

• BookWorm Features
• Author Interviews
• Books That have impacted writer or readers
• Obscure works that are hidden gems
• Sharing life through books read
• Movies that were books
• Excerpts

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Other Posts Book Blogs Have �part 2

• Book Reviews
• Comparison of Story lines
• Tips for book social media
• Free Book Spotlights or Giveaways and/or Gifts
• Special Themed Days
• Sexy Saturdays
• Wordy Wednesday
• Sunday Shorts

How Does A Book Blogger Impact Author Sales?

• BB have increased sales for extra printing of authors books
• BB have pushed books to best sellers lists
• BB have had the power to turn self published authors into traditionally published authors
• BB have created huge demand for author’s backlist titles

Why Book Bloggers are so Powerful!

• Can’t be control by traditional publishers
• Word passes fast around the blogger community
• Produces better Search Engine Optimization

How Can I Find Book Bloggers?

• Use Book Tour Hosts (slide coming up)
• Send out request on Social Media for Book Bloggers
• Go to twitter and look up hashtag #bookbloggers
• bookbloggerdirectory.wordpress.com
• Google’s searchable blogger database

What to do after I find a �Book Blogger?

• Participate before you propagate your material.
• Submit your book & please follow their book submissions requirements
• Be gracious and engaged.

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Steps to Blog Tour D.I.Y.

• First you have to find the right mix of blogs.
• Second, keep everything organized and all information flowing in a timely manner.
• Third, set up a tour page where all the information about you, your book(s) and the tour itself can be found and followed by readers.
• Fourth, make banners for your tour, host a blog hop and do giveaways to create excitement about your tour.
• Also read: BlogTour tips for planning Your Journey

What Not To Do?

• Send your book to bloggers not interested in your genre
• Underestimate the power of book bloggers with small readerships
• Post your materials in the comment section of a feature on someone else.
• Don’t send junk

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Terms for Blog Hosts

• Blog Tours
• Blog Hop
• Blog
• Blog Coordinators

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Other Resources to find �Book Bloggers

• 1. http://www.simon-royle.com/indie-reviewers/�2. http://fyreflybooks.wordpress.com/ab...-blogs-search/
• http://indiesfreviewers.wordpress.com/ (SF)
• Next Best Book Blog
• http://yabookblogdirectory.blogspot.com/p/ya-book-blogger-list.html
• http://www.theindieview.com/indie-reviewers

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More resources

• The Author’s Guide to Social Media: Book bloggers can be your best friends - Insatiable Book Sluts
• Authors: How NOT to Pitch a Book Blogger (and How to Do it Right) - Well-Read Reviews
• Book Blogger Awards:

Independent Book Blogger Awards

• 7 Top eBook Blog Sites (2014) from The Book Designer Site.
• Top Book Bloggers from Cision
• Promote Your Book with a Virtual Book Tour

Benefits of Doing a Blog Tour

• 1. One of the key things people want to do with a blog tour is to generate sales
• 2. Generate an online buzz about your book
• 3. Reach your target audience
• 4. Get information about you and your books to many people in a short period of time
• 5. Create additional links to your site
• 6. Let readers and potential readers to learn more about you and your books
• 7. Help blog readers get to know the person behind the book or other product
• 8. Search engines love blogs
• 9. Your information gets to search engines immediately
• 10 Give people the opportunity to communicate with you
• 11. Comments can give you the chance to see what your blog readers are thinking
• 12. Build credibility and increase visibility

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• Go to http://bookpromotionservices.com/books/insiders-guide-to-virtual-tours/ to download a free pdf of insiders guide to virtual tours.

Blog Tour Hosts

• SizzlingPr.com
• Philiabooktours.com
• VirtualBookTourCafe.Weebly.com
• Bewitching Book Tours
• HollowTours.com
• Reading Addiction Blog Tours
• FierceReadingVirtualBookTours.blogspot.com
• InnovativeOnlineBookTours.com
• OrangeberryBookTours.com
• TLCBookTours.com
• PumpUpYourBookPromotion.com
• NovelPublicity.com
• TourzDeCodex.blogspot.in
• SupaGurlBooks.blogspot.com
• ABGreadsbooktours.blogspot.com
• LitDiva.com
• BlackWriters.co
• tywebbincreations.com
• writenowlit.blogspot.com/

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(These are just suggestions found in a search and around the Internet)

Blog Stop Book Tours

JBH Marketing & Public Relations

Kidz Book Buzz

Phenix & Phenix Literary Publicists

Promo 101 Virtual Blog Tours

PTA Interactive

Provato Marketing

Virtual Book Tours

FMB Blog Tours

promotionalbooktours.com

partnersincrimetours.net

everythingmarietours.com

More Blog Tour Host & Other Stuff

• AToMRBookBlogTours.wordpress.com
• Enchanted Book Tours
• BookMarketingMadeEasy.com – gives you a free copy of Guide on Maximizing Your Blog Tour

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