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How to Promote Your Books with Virtual Book Tours Video – this was fun!

Check this out, you book promotion maniacs…how well are you using your key search words for people to find out about your book? If you’ve been using them efficiently, you could make a really neat video for YouTube using the Google Search Stories Video Creator. It’s loads of fun! Here is the one I made for Pump Up Your Book:

Let us know in the comment section below if you create one so we can go check it out!

Dorothy Thompson is CEO/Founder of Pump Up Your Book, an innovative public relation...

Was Glastonbury the Burial Place of King Arthur? by Donna Fletcher Crow

I’m happy to have Donna Fletcher Crow, author of Glastonbury: A Novel of the Holy Grail here today to talk about the inspiration behind her book.

Donna Fletcher Crow is the author of 40 books, mostly novels dealing with British history. The award-winning Glastonbury, A Novel of the Holy Grail, an Arthurian grail search epic covering 15 centuries of English history, is her best-known work. Donna and her husband live in Boise, Idaho. They have 4 adult children and 11 grandchildren. She is an...

Need guest post ideas for your blog tour? Here’s 50 of them.

Let’s just say you’ve been invited to guest post on someone’s blog. I’m not sure why but some kind of automated brain block suddenly sets in and I don’t know whether it’s because there are so many things to blog about or maybe you have that one chance and you want the subject to be PERFECT, but suddenly you find yourself with your hands on the keyboard but they’re not going anywhere.

I have compiled a list of blogging topics an author might want to go through to give them some ideas on wha...

Looking for blog hosts for spy fiction ‘The Proxy Assassin’ by John Knoerle

Hi everyone! We are looking for bloggers to host John Knoerle and his spy fiction novel, The Proxy Assassin: Book Three of the American Spy Trilogy, during his virtual book tour November 5 – February 15. We are looking for reviewers mostly, but if you’d like to interview John or have him write a guest post for you, that would be perfectly fine!

The main requirements are your blog has to be at least 3 months old and you have at least 60 blog posts published and your blog has to be 80% boo...

Looking for blog hosts for Christian historical fiction ‘A Texan’s Choice’ by Shelley Gray

Hi everyone! We are looking for a few more bloggers to host Shelley Gray and her Christian historical fiction novel, A Texan’s Choice, during her virtual book tour November 5 – 23. We are looking for reviewers mostly, but if you’d like to interview Shelley or have her write a guest post for you, that would be perfectly fine!

The main requirements are your blog has to be at least 3 months old and you have at least 60 blog posts published and your blog has to be 90% book focused. We can only...

Halloween Book Festival sets dates

2012 HALLOWEEN BOOK FESTIVAL SETS DATES

HOLLYWOOD, CA _ The 2012 Halloween Book Festival will hold its annual program honoring the best books of the holiday season on October 29-30 at the W Hotel in Hollywood. The event is part of the Aliens to Zombies Convention (www.alienstozombies.com).

The Halloween Book Festival (www.halloweenbookfestival.com) will consider works in science fiction, horror, general fiction, non-fiction, biography/autobiography, young adult, fantasy, audio/spoken word,...

Television personality Libby Floyd on ‘Sparkelicious Blog Tour’

Television personality and author Libby Floyd will be touring the blogosphere October 1 – 26 with her new book, Sparkelicious! Now is your chance to get to know the author behind the book and enter one of the many book giveaways through her tour.

Libby Floyd has been a national on-air television personality for over 15 years with appearances on ShopNBC, Shop-At-Home and The Food Network. She was the youngest ever nominee for the prestigious position of Poet Laureate of South Carolina follo...

Who I am and what I do.

Okay before I start blogging my little head off, I’d like to tell everyone a little about who I am and what I do. I founded Pump Up Your Book in 2007. Started with one client and watched it escalate to oh about 30 – 40 authors a month or more. I started out with one tour coordinator who was less than honest, hired another tour coordinator who didn’t work out, then…I found Cheryl Malandrinos. Now…if you don’t know who Cheryl is, you’ve lived a very sheltered life. She’s a very talented chi...

Interview with ‘A Matter of Time’ Michael Bowler: ‘What if Dracula was a passenger aboard Titanic and contributed to events that sunk her?’

Michael Bowler grew up in San Rafael, California. He attended St. Raphael’s School and Marin Catholic High School before attending Santa Clara University. Titanic and her tragic fate fascinated him for as far back as he can remember. He has a vast collection of artwork, memorabilia and virtually every book ever written about the disaster.

He majored in English andTheatre at Santa Clara and got a master’s in film production from Loyola Marymount University. Hepartnered with two friends as p...

5 Things You Should Know About Writing Fiction by Khanh Ha, author of “Flesh”

ABOUT KHANH HA

Khanh Ha was born in Hue, the former capital of Vietnam. During his teen years he began writing short stories which won him several awards in the Vietnamese adolescent magazines. He graduated from Ohio University with a bachelor’s degree in Journalism. Flesh is his first novel. He is at work on a new novel.

To find out more visit his website at :http://www.authorkhanhha.com/ or his blog at:http://authorkhanhha.blogspot.com/

5 Things You Should Know About Writing Fiction

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