Thanks for the update, Connie. I hope the bloggers get those reviews up for you.

Sandy

It is now May 2 with May 3 and 4 upcoming. So far, there have been not quite 1,000 downloads of the book in this latter half of the virtual tour.

One surprising thing: I went out and collected/inveigled/begged friends and others to post Amazon reviews, thinking I’d get 15 and the virtual tour would provide 15, since bloggers are generally expected (although not REQUIRED) to cross post. I have 15 reviews up. Thirteen of them I got on my own. The virtual tour bloggers are 2 in number at this point, although I have hopes that they will post—–late. This is a new experience for me; usually the bloggers are quite good about cross posting to Goodreads and Amazon, but if I had not worked as hard as I did, would I even have 15, only 2 of which are from the virtual tour, so far? Hopefully, this will improve.

T The getting-it-up-on-free-blog sites was a lot of work and took 3 of us. I am hopeful that the long-term results of promoting like this will be good for ALL my works. Two days remain to get a free copy of “Hellfire & Damnation III” as I write this, so download a copy if you like suspenseful short stories. It will be the only book you’ll download from an author who was bitten by a scorpion on April 17th. (See WeeklyWilson.com for details of that!) And the irony is that the first story (“The Cave Robbber”) involves a spider!
Sincerely,
Connie (Corcoran) Wilson
http://www.ConnieCWilson.com

Dear Cortez,

Good work.

A lovely feature of virtual book touring is that you can continue to add on venues. They need not all be scheduled when you begin. I have added venues since I wrote the above article. I am still looking for one or two for May and for the same number of June—when my tour ends.

I would urge you to create a tour page on your website so that the venues continue to get traffic as your visitors click on the live links. If you want an example of an itinerary set up, here it is: http://thememoirnetwork.com/memoir-writing-books-series/#itinerary

Thanks for the pingback.

I just want to mention that templates are important to me on two scores: 1) they make sure that I get all the information out that I want to get out (and I don’t miss anything) and 2) since most of what I have to say is the same for almost everyone, it saves me a whole lot of time.

That is smart! I’ve included a template and sample for that in “Build Book Buzz Publicity Forms & Templates” at http://buildbookbuzz.com/publicity-workbook/ .

Sandy