How to attend a Book Tour without leaving your home
Virtual Book Tours
Are you tired of packing and carrying boxes of books? Then a Virtual Book Tour may be for you.
Virtual Book Tours can be done with or as an alternative for live book events. A Virtual Book Tour is an advertisement of online book events.
Virtual Book Tours can increase your market share. Your book will be appearing all over the Internet without ever leaving your home and best of all your exposure is global.
The author stops at a given number of websites in a given amount of time, usually a month, the same as they would do at bookstores during a real world tour. At these stops, the author may be interviewed, may blog themselves, may answer questions from readers or get their book reviewed. The author may appear on radio shows or on podcasts who will read and recommends the book.
Now what! You need to line up interested bloggers and website owners who would be willing to host you. The main thing you need to consider is do these blogs generate enough traffic. The audience needs to be interested in your topic. Remember to have a media kit available to show perspective bloggers and website owners.
Remember to make available for purchase through link backs to your book’s sales page on your website or through Amazon.com or BN.com (Barnes and Noble). Another hot tip, contests also attract listeners.
Many Authors that I have spoken with have told me that they like Virtual Book Tours because it is less expensive. Is is also longer lasting and they have no public speaking worries. Some Authors prefer Live Book Tours because they enjoy seeing the audience’s reaction. Which do you prefer Live Book Tours or Virtual Book Tours?
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A very attractive presentation. However, I think the blurbs, or bits of info, go by a bit too quickly for the reader. Would a “continue” or “next” button help> Especially for those who, like me, are somewhat visually handicapped.
My novel is still in the preparation stage, but I have a nice book of modern haikuj that I would like to promote. What can you do for it? What would your fee be? Can you designa web page for me? Contact by e-mail please.
Yvonne, I find your articles really informative and look forward to reading them.
Interacting with readers “in person” has its advantage: instant reader satisfaction, as an author signs a copy of his/her novel, which results in immediate book sales.
However, with publishing prices, shipping prices and gas prices on the rise, I am in favor of Internet book tours as a supplement to traditional book tours.
I know that I have sold a majority of my novels through Internet marketing. Any promotional tool that an author can get the word out about their books is always worth the time spent.
I prefer the Virtual Tours as a self-published author, they are far easier to organize and since the majority of my sales are online I’m hitting my target market. It also is excellent publicity for authors to participate as hosts for other authors in their field.
Of course Live Book Tours have merits too, you certainly get a more hands-on involvement with fans and book sales.
Authors should take advantage of all the practical promotion tools available.
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