Mandy is a member of the Romantic Novelists' Association and the Society of Authors and lives near Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK with her husband, two daughters and cats, Kravitz and Springsteen.
Going
on tour!
Award-winning
author Mandy Baggot talks blogs and books...
‘I’m
doing a blog tour, it’s worldwide and there are giveaways, guest
posts and interviews.’ What?! The words ‘going on tour’ gives
the impression that you have turned into Jon Bon Jovi and will be
climbing aboard a bus full of guitars and amps and taking off across
the world performing to thousands of screaming fans. If only an
author could!
A
blog tour is much easier than employing roadies or groupies but it is
essential if you want to get your book reviewed and under the eye of
the millions of readers out there.
Going
on tour with your book simply means arranging for book blogs\websites
to read a preview copy of your novel and post something about it.
Most of the time this will be a review – hopefully a fantastic
review – or other times it could be an author interview or guest
post. Most blog tours will involve a mixture of all of these.
Readers
like to find out about you the author and they are also fascinated by
the knowledge you’ve picked up on your writing journey. For my blog
tour for my romantic suspense novel, Security, some of the topics I
talked about were the peril of distractions, the top ten things you
might not know about me and my typical writing day.
A
good blog tour will be well planned out, be worldwide and have
something different for those readers who will want to follow you
around the whole length of the tour.
As
well as a blog tour through my publishers, I’ve also organised
tours through blog tour organisers. Having a coordinator helps
because they will probably have blogger contacts wider than your
circle and they can put everything together for you, stopping the
constant emails back and forth that eat into your writing time. You
can choose a timescale to suit you – one week, two weeks, a whole
month and just watch the interest in your book grow. You’ll be
amazed the effect it has.
So,
to get your novel more widely read, hop on the tour bus!
Pick up Mandy's newest book release Truly, Madly Greekly
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