Blog Book Tours

This post first ran in 2009 - much still remains relevant. I've changed a few things in red. At the Blog Book Tours class (which I no...

Do any of us ever tire of getting a thank you? I don't. This one just landed in my e-mailbox for my participation in a blog book tour...

When I'm promoting a blog book tour for myself or another author, my social media procedure goes like this. It's  basically what I ...

Turn off blog moderation and word verification, often known as CAPTCHA code, during a daily blogging challenge or blog book tour. I don...

It's a common misconception that people on Twitter will think you are spamming them if you tweet about your new book all day long. But ...

One of our pals at the BBT Cafe, Marian Allen, has just released her new Kindle book and we're please to help spread the news! You ca...

Do you like this photo? No, it's not a picture of me. But I'm using it for this lesson about permalinks and their importance durin...

Blog popularity, or PageRank , is an important part of choosing blog book tour hosts. You want publicity on sites that are noticed by sear...

The best way to learn how to build your own blog book tour, is to follow one in action. Here's one that is kicking off today at Little P...

If you haven't yet dipped into the Twitter pool (and you must to promote your books!), here's a guide from Kathi Flynn that's...

You can join my Yahoo!Group, the BBT Cafe , which is all about blog book tours. Join me on Facebook , too. Here I am on Twitter . An...

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Yesterday I warned you about blog posts that are too long for your hurried readers. How do you avoid posts that are time-consuming to rea...

Photo credit: shopwasteland.com One of the most important tips about blogging is to keep your posts relatively short - no more than 500 ...

What better time to spark up a blog than the first day of the year? I've joined the Ultimate Blog Challenge because I know from past ...

The first day of a blog book tour is always a bit stressful for everyone involved, because it sets the tone for the rest of the tour. Also i...

Originally published on 11/6/2009 One of the most important statistics on your blog book tour are those of your once-and-future blog hosts...

Join us for the latest wild and crazy experiment at the BBT Café , the online social group for all the writers who have taken my blog bo...

An Excerpt from Creating Time by Marney Makridakis Try this: Imagine who you would be if you didn’t worry about time. How might you...

A major premise of the blog book tours course is that a good author blog is the foundation of a good blog book tour. Why? Unless the author ...