Blog tours

Please consider that the Forever Friends Book Tour is a great opportunity to find out more about virtual book tours and how they work. If you are considering setting up a blog tour or you simply don't know what that means, check out this blog post. You can follow the tour here or visit any of the blogs on the tour:

http://shelaghwatkins.wordpress.com

If you have any questions, leave a comment and I'll try to help as much as I can.

~Shelagh

I just hope I have this figured out. I tried it with the sample you sent and it worked OK. I just post it in the Edit HTML and then hit Compose - is that correct? When does the real thing arrive? Why am I worried about an overwhelming foulup occurring?

Don't worry, it will work out fine. I will compose the blog post using the blogger editor then copy it and paste into a word file. All you need to do is paste in the post and hit publish. You could always preview it first to see what kind of a mess I've created!

With my current activities I somehow got out of the loop on the Blog tour and didn't sign up. From what I read on the website it look good.

Hi Abe,

It was interesting setting it up just to find out how blog tours are perceived. My idea was to send out information to be pasted onto blogs. I viewed the tour as me visiting blogs to talk about the anthology. I invited all the contributors to join in and Chelle asked for December 1st. I said okay and stated writing the first blog entry for Chelle's blog.

Last Monday, I received an email from Chelle saying that the blog was all set up, including the link ready to go live. I wondered what she had done but carried on regardless. I sent the word document and heard nothing, so I assumed it was okay.

This morning, I visited Chelle's blog and realised exactly what she meant. She had already written the blog entry and had to squeeze in the file I sent. It wasn't exactly the way I wanted to start the blog tour but it gave me the idea to invite people to follow the tour to learn more about how they work. It was a good example of lack of communication. I was so busy setting it up, I assumed that everyone would wait until I sent out the information and then everything would become clear. Evidently not. A good lesson in the learning!