Comments on: Author On Tour: Does It Work For You?

By: MJ Smith

MJ Smith — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:09:54 +0000

Hello
Anyone know a good and inexpensive blog tour. Please leave me a message on my website.

Thanks

By: Barbara

Barbara — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:37:31 +0000

Honestly, I have found many new authors through blog tours.

Now, I don’t run out and buy every author’s book I see on a blog, but I have bought quite a few that I found to be intriguing.

Sometimes, just by seeing the cover several times while blog surfing, I find myself more prone to picking up the book should I see it at the store. It sticks with you.

By: Tracy Cooper-Posey

Tracy Cooper-Posey — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:56:20 +0000

I’ve not done a blog tour myself (yet), but hosted several authors on my blogs, and I do enjoy the hosting. It’s fun to see how different authors compose (comport ) themselves professionally and how they interact with the readers. All this helps me build my own ideas of how I will handle my own blog tours when I start doing them, and what I *won’t* do.

I also like hosting authors because it helps drive traffic to my own blog. Hey, it’s a give and take process.

By: Pam Ripling

Pam Ripling — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:17:39 +0000

Speaking as both author and reader, I like blog tours for the simple reason that I get to meet interesting people. Like Karen, I see it as an opportunity to connect with readers (and authors) that I wouldn’t otherwise meet. I am midway through a blog tour myself at the moment, and have enjoyed different experiences each day. And yes, you must provide fresh, stimulating content each day in order for anyone to want to follow you.

By: Nell Dixon

Nell Dixon — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:41:37 +0000

It depends. Some blogs are nothing more than non stop tour stops for authors and that for me gets old. If it’s a blog I read regularly with an occasional tour stop by an author then I will probably look for the book.

By: Karen Olson

Karen Olson — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:08:13 +0000

I have done three blog tours for my last three books, and I do think it has helped expand my readership. I always write different posts with different topics for each blog. I don’t want to rehash the same thing over and over. I know I can reach more readers with a blog tour than by visiting a couple of libraries or bookstores in my home state.

By: Kimber An

Kimber An — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:55:08 +0000

Blog Tours are great. I’ve been out of commission a few months making a new baby, but we’re starting up such things again in September at Enduring Romance.

Anyway, in my observation, Blog Tours are great for authors who have a significant on-line presence or are good at and enjoy building an on-line presence. *Know your Readership.* If your readers are heavily on-line, like they are for Science Fiction Romance or Erotic Romance for example, then you better be too. If they’re not, you’re wasting your time. *Be where your readers are.*

By: Fedora

Fedora — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:29:07 +0000

I do tend to follow authors around on a tour–I do agree with Kimber and Terry that I enjoy getting to know an author and her writing style by her posts, so it *is* a plus when she mixes it up a little and doesn’t just use one or two posts again and again. Also, I really appreciate when an author takes the time to interact with commenters–I know you don’t have time to sit around and respond immediate to each comment, but I love checking back that evening or the next day and seeing the author’s comments back. It makes the entire experience much more like a conversation, and really creates more of a connection. And yes, seeing the cover and blurb and excerpts repeatedly DO burn them into my brain and bump them up the TBB!

By: Terry Odell

Terry Odell — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:20:13 +0000

As long as the author does something other than talk about the book, I’ll follow a few stops on the tour. I think the best thing for the author is probably hitting readers that wouldn’t know about the book otherwise.

That being said, I have guests on my own blog every Tuesday, and my house rules are no religion, politics or BSP. I think there are enough other places where the author can do the book commercial thing.

By: Melissa A. Golliday

Melissa A. Golliday — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:00:52 +0000

The cover art is usually what I am drawn to first and foremost. However, once that has me intrigued, then it is up to the author to reel me in. If what she has to say is worthwhile, and not just another contest, then I read and if I like her style I check out the book. Next it depends on if the book is available in kindle format or pdf which I can transfer through mobipocket for my kindle.

I know I’m more apt to purchase a book if it is from a well known e-pub, like yours Dee, or a few others.

The more I see the cover and author, the more it tempts me to purchase if I was previously on the fence.