The End of the Tour (Part II)

God, I love this movie.

Well, that’s a wrap on my second blog tour. Did my new book The Electric God and Other Shorts fare any better than my last one, Déjà View, when put through the blogging rounds of Rockstar Book Tours? Well, yes and no, if that makes any sense. As with most things in life, there were highs and lows. The highs: I loved my Two Chicks on Books interview. I was never put through a “lightning round” before, and I actually learned something about myself, which isn’t something you can say every day when you get to be my age.

Another high: Kim’s Book Reviews posted the longest and possibly my favorite review of my book so far (and it wasn’t even 100% positive). It was thorough, fair, and incredibly well written, which makes sense since Kim is an author herself. I particularly appreciated how she nailed the themes of the book.

The lows: A few bloggers forgot to post about my book (that’s the second time in a row you skipped my book, Rajiv’s Reviews!), and there were errors in other posts. In the post on Book Review Virginia Lee Blog, there were no spaces between many words in the first paragraph, and in lieu of a book excerpt, which she was supposed to post, it just read, “INSERT YOUR POST OR REVIEW HERE!” Oopsy! She eventually fixed it, but c’mon; she had one job. While I’m complaining, shouldn’t the name of her blog be “Virginia Lee’s Book Review Blog”? It reminds me of the confounding restaurant name “Ruth’s Chris Steak House.” But I digress.

Another reviewer thought the name of my book was The Electric Gods (plural) and short stories (instead of Other Shorts; also, sic incorrect lowercasing of book title). I understand that these blogs aren’t going to be perfect, but they can at least get the title of my book right. Anyway, it was a positive review (as all of them were), so I can’t complain too much.

Honestly, it was frustrating to see these blogs have thousands of followers when all they were mostly doing is cutting and posting previously created material. And sometimes, as noted above, they couldn’t even do that correctly. Meanwhile, I create original content on this here blog almost every week—with some posts running 1,000 words or more—and I have TENS of followers. Don’t get me wrong; I love you guys! But after slugging it out in the indie author field for close to 3 years now, it’d be nice to be speaking to a larger audience than an oversized classroom.

Here are the remaining entries of the blog tour (Note: You may need to log into Instagram to view the Instagram reviews of some of these posts):

Kim’s Book Reviews The Electric God Review Fiction._.fuss The Electric God Review evergirl200 The Electric God Instagram ReviewThe Page Ladies The Electric God Instagram ReviewEnjoying Books Again The Electric God Instagram ReviewCountry Mamas With Kids The Electric God ReviewDeal Sharing Aunt The Electric God Review

Finally, don’t forget to enter to win one of 10 free, signed copies of The Electric God and Other Shorts by visiting one of the blogs above. (Details on how to enter are described therein.) You have until tomorrow (I believe) to enter, when my blog tour will truly be over. *sniff*

MTP

P.S.: Next blog: The First Reviews of The Electric God and Other Shorts

P.P.S.: The Electric God and Other Shorts is now available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble:

The Electric God on AmazonBarnes & Noble