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# Ten Great Reasons To Book a Blog Tour #blogtour #VBT #PUYB #bookpromo @abbybardi

It is with great privilege to have as our guest today Abby Bardi, author of the mystery, Double Take. Abby has been on tour with us in the past and she’s here to give you ten great reasons to book a blog tour. Enjoy! Ten Great Reasons to Book a Blog Tour By Abby Bardi Let’s face it, my most recent novel Double Take has not done as well as my two previous novels (The Book of Fred and The Secret Letters). Like any parent, I love it just as much as the other two, but the truth is maybe it’s a little bit, um, dark. And people tell
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# Guest Blogger: Your Truth or Mine? by Callie Browning

We have a guest blogger today! We welcome Callie Browning, author of The Shadow Guardian, at Pump Up Your Book. Callie discusses life as a writer and it really hit home with me as I’m sure it will you, too. Enjoy! Pump Up Your Book welcomes guest bloggers. If you have an interesting article about writing, publishing or promoting, send it to us! Your Truth or Mine? By Callie Browning, author of The Shadow Guardian I’ve experienced lots of things in my life. Every challenge you face as a person only helps you to grow. Adolescence, heartbreak and making major life decisions add something intrinsic to your personal DNA
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# The Author and the RV Life by Sharon House

The Author and the RV Life By Sharon House Several years ago I wrote my first novel but did not sign a publishing contract until 2006. The ensuing year was filled with editing, choosing layout designs, cover design, reviewing the proof and seeing the end result, my novel in book form ready for market. My husband and I lived in a house, held down jobs, and camped on holiday weekends and a few vacation trips during the summer months. A fall outing was a rare occasion. Then retirement came and the question was: do we stay in the house and deal with the winter cold and snow or do
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# PUBLISHING RESOURCES: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly by Val Stasik

PUBLISHING RESOURCES: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly By Val Stasik, author of INCIDENTAL DAUGHTER Here are some resources to help writers navigate the often stormy waters of publishing: Book Production Mark Levine’s blog has a lot of good advice and warnings, especially for those who are self-publishing. http://www.publishingrevolution.com. Preditors & Editors helps writers avoid fraudulent or questionable publishing outfits. http://www.pred-ed.com. Writers Beware Blog exposes scammers and questionable activities in the publishing business. http://www.accrispin.blogspot.com. Your local writing association. Agents, Publishers and Queries, a free site recommended by a fellow writer, provides a database of literary agents and publishers along with valuable statistical information about these agents and publishers.
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# Promote Your Book Through Magazine and Ezine Articles

The editor of a writing-related ezine said to me the other day, “I don’t know why more authors don’t offer us articles. We almost always publish them along with their bio. It’s great publicity for their books.” Why not promote your book doing what you love best — writing? Here are several examples to help get your started. Many popular magazines and ezines use book excerpts. Of course, they generally want excerpts from books that relate to their magazine — cooking magazines want excerpts from cookbooks, a travel magazine will quote travel books and poetry magazines want to excerpt poetry books. Use your imagination to come up with more
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# Guest Blogger: 5 Tips for Finding a Publisher in the Digital Age by Steven Boggs

Our guest today is Steven Boggs. Welcome Steven! 5 Tips for Finding a Publisher in the Digital Age By Steven Boggs Entering the literary world of publishers, agents and submissions is one of long, pronounced waits and one that requires bone-crushing patience and thick skin.Luckily, by using these five steps below, you can cut down on much of the time and anguish by circumventing the large percentage lost to the learning curve and get your book published as expediently and painlessly as possible. Revise, Revise, Revise It can be so tempting for writers who’ve just finished their book to want to get it out to the public as soon
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# The Right Way and the Wrong Way to Promote Your Book Online: I Choose the Wrong Way by Susan Wingate

The Right Way and the Wrong Way to Promote Your Book Online: I Choose the Wrong Way By Susan Wingate Of late, every time I teach at a writing conference, the program coordinators slate a workshop with a title something like this: How to Blog Effectively or The Art of Blogging. You get the idea. They have rules like: never blog without knowing the topic you’ll be discussing; and, try to blog in your niche. Words of wisdom for sure however if your niche is writing or more succinctly, novel writing, well every Johnny out there has a blog about it. It seems the blogging market for how-to-write has
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# Pump Up Chats with James B. Rose, Spokesperson for Mary-Elaine Swanson

Mary-Elaine Swanson, the author of John Locke: Philosopher of American Liberty, went to be with her Lord in May 2011. She did not have a chance to see this book published. We asked her spokesperson and friend, James B. Rose, president of the American Christian History Institute to give us some insight into Mary and why her book is important. Characterizing Mary-Elaine Swanson (1927-2011) and her book, “John Locke – Philosopher of American Liberty,” Nordskog Publishing, 2012 By James B. Rose, President, American Christian History Institute Quickened by the research and remarkable testimony of Verna M. Hall, American Christian Historian, Mary-Elaine Swanson (nee Adams) devoted her spiritual and intellectual
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# Featured Guest Author B.A. Chepaitis on ‘Digging For Souls’

After devouring the first two books of the Fear series, I invited the author – B.A. Chepaitis – to talk about the research involved in writing the series. Research for the Jaguar Addams’ novels primarily involves using my claws to dig through flesh toward the heart and soul of human fear, human love, human joy and pain. That’s what Jaguar does for a living, and to tell her stories I have to be constantly learning about the art and disaster of being human. That learning has three layers – psychology, mythology, and experience. For the psychology, I read articles and books about the functioning of the mind, the vagaries
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# Guest Blogger: How I made $23,500 in 4 months self-publishing my novel ‘Forged in Fire’ by Trish McCallan

How I made $23,500 in 4 months self-publishing my novel ‘Forged in Fire’ By Trish McCallan On Sept 7th, of 2011 I self-published Forged in Fire, a high octane romantic thriller. By the end of December of 2011 I had sold over 10,000 copies and earned $19,500 in royalties enabling me to quit my day job and write full time. As of January 20th, the book has sold over 12,000 copies, earned somewhere around $23,500 in royalties and attracted the attention of a BIG NAME publisher. There’s no question a good share of FIF’s success is due to its sub-genre. Romantic thrillers are among the hottest books within the
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# A Book and a Chat Host Barry Eva’s Dos and Don’ts for Getting on Internet Radio Shows

A Book and a Chat Host Barry Eva’s Dos and Don’ts for Getting on Internet Radio Shows By Barry Eva Back in February 2009, after appearing on a few radio shows, and with experience of running a couple of local TV shows narrating stories from my romance book as well as filming local karaoke, I thought… why not try your own radio show. Loving a good old “chin wag” as we say in England I thought it might be good fun, little did I know just how much. Here we are almost three years on and over 400 shows later my show is still hitting the airwaves three to
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# Guest Blogger: Bestsellers Are Not Born. They’re Made! by Terri Giuliano Long

Bestsellers Are Not Born. They’re Made! Terri Giuliano Long When I published my debut novel, In Leah’s Wake, in October 2010, I had no clue as to what I was doing. Stupidly, too embarrassed to self-promote, I posted the book on Amazon. That was it. I mean really it – not even my parents knew I’d published the book! I sold two books in October, four in November, and thirty-four in December. For a month or so after the holidays, as people bought books for their new Kindles, I sold a few copies a day. By March, with sales lagging, and I realized that, if I didn’t do something,
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# How To Create a Facebook Welcome Page by John Ames

We have a great guest post for you today! John Ames, author of Adventures in Nowhere, is here to help us with creating our own personal Facebook Welcome Page. You can visit his website at www.johnamesauthor.com. How to Create a Facebook Welcome Page by John Ames These days, authors have to do a great deal of promotion for themselves, which usually involves creating a fan page for yourself, your book, or a product connected to your book. Creating the page itself is not very hard. Facebook gives good instructions on fan page creation: http://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=12809&ref_query=create+fanpage#!/pages/create.php Once the page is up, the next move is to make it as attractive as
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❤️"THANK YOU for all of these graphics!!! That was a valuable added perk of working with you on the VBT! Thank you for all the work you put into those, and into the organization and follow-ups on the tour itself. It's been a pleasure working with you, Dorothy!"Allyson Rice, The Key to Circus-Mom Highway

❤️"Oh, awesome!! Thank you so much! You ran such a lovely tour. Those images are great, I look forward to using them and will miss seeing the regular postings on Twitter ;-).
I really appreciate your steadfast and ongoing support. It means a lot!!"Palmer Pickering, MOON DEEDS

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Maria Andrade, DEFIANCE AND REDEMPTION

❤️"Everyone did an excellent job. The blog pages were beautiful, and the trailer was so clever and funny. Thanks for sending these lovely "souvenirs" from my tour. I will be able to use all of these posts on Twitter. I enjoyed this so much and look forward to my next tour!"
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Elysia Strife, A PROMISE IN ASH

❤️"Today my blog tour ended, with another great review which made me end the tour with a big smile! What a fun way to end this incredible 4-week tour. I will surely miss it. I want to thank you for arranging it so well and for being there for me whenever I needed. Thank you!!!"

Miri Leshem-Pelly, SCRIBBLE & AUTHOR

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Shami Stovall, KNIGHTMARE ARCANIST

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❤️"I just wanted to thank you for a wonderful virtual tour in August for Brimstone and Water. I was very happy with the amount of attention given to the book and to me. I am mentioning it to friends on line that haven't gone to the site yet to be sure and take a look. Thanks for all your work."
Sharon House, BRIMSTONE AND WATER

❤️"Thank you for running my book promotion for BlackJack. I am so pleased with the reviews that came in and appreciated all you did. My sales have improved from being around 800,000 down to the 200,000 on Amazon and hopefully dropping still. I will definitely be contacting you for a promotion again."
Christine Donovan, BLACKJACK

❤️"You’ve been a joy to work with, and I’d do another tour with you in a heartbeat. Overall, it was an excellent experience and a good value. I’ll be sure to look you up when it’s time to release my next book."
Michael Allan Scott, GREY DAZE

❤️"Just wanted to thank you for putting together a great tour for You Won't Remember This. I think the author was pleasantly surprised and overall very pleased."
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❤️"Dorothy, thanks so much for another great VBT!!! The Twitter-Party was a new feature this time that I particularly enjoyed. I will continue to recommend PUYB to my writer-friends, because you are simply the best!!!"
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❤️"I can't believe the response this book is getting! I am so very thrilled that she liked it!!! You are THE BEST, Dorothy, for hooking up this amazing tour with all these stunning reviews! This was the book I was going to keep under my bed forever and ever and now WOW. I can't believe this is happening. It's like a dream come true!"
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