Planning a Blog Tour? Think Twice.

Blog tours are all the rage right now for indie and traditionally-published authors. My advice: think it through, and then talk to other people who've done them, and think it through again.



I'd heard mixed reports about them, and decided to try one myself. Now I wish I hadn't wasted my time.



Working with one of the tour-organizing web sites, I arranged for a two-week blog tour that ended up with 14 "stops." The organizer was thrilled by the strong response. At her direction, I'd written a chara...