As I am sure many of you know, I am about to embark on a very exciting series of virtual book tours, across a few of my titles. A few people have asked me exactly what a virtual tour is, so I thought I would blog about it, as there is far too much involved to cover it all in a FB post.
A virtual book tour is very basically a tour of your book on the internet. You don’t physically travel, but you are hosted by well-known bloggers, who are primarily readers.
A tour can last anything from a week to three months, usually with 1-2 stops a day. Each stop is hosted by a different blogger, and depending on the host, a number of different posts could feature, such as:
* Book review
* Author Interview
* Character Interview (this one is quite fun, actually!)
* Book Trailer
* Guest Blog (The author writes a guest blog for the host’s website)
* Book Excerpt
* Character Outlines
* Dream Movie Cast
* Music Playlist
The list is endless, but it is all good fun, and requires a lot of hard work to put together.
My tour dates are:
The Traveler 19th May-16th June 2014
Rainfall 16th June-27th June 2014
The Traveler 23rd June – 23rd July 2014
AND The Legacy Blog Tour: a two month whirlwind tour from 21st July – 19th September. To follow this tour, please go to: The Legacy Blog Tour Schedule and Updates.
My first tour is for The Traveler and it runs from the 19th May – 16th June. The schedule for this tour is as follows, so if you want to follow the tour, simply visit the tour stops on the specified day 🙂
Schedule The Traveller by Melissa Delport
May 19: Spotlight
Mila Ramos
May 20: Spotlight
Sapphyria’s Book Reviews
http://saphsbookblog.blogspot.com/
May 21: Spotlight
3 Partners in Shopping, Nana, Mommy, & Sissy, Too!
http://3partnersinshopping.blogspot.com
May 22: Author Interview
Roxanne’s Realm
May 23: Guest blog
Fang-tastic Books
www.fang-tasticbooks.blogsopt.com
May 26: Spotlight
Jacqueline Paige
May 27: Spotlight
More Romance Please
moreromanceplease.blogspot.com
May 28: Spotlight
Captivated Reading
http://www.captivatedreadingreviews.com
May 29: Author Interview
Pembroke Sinclair
www.pembrokesinclair.blogspot.com
May 30: Spotlight
Lisa’s World of Books
June 2: Author Interview
The Creatively Green Write at Home Mom
www.creativelygreen.blogspot.com
June 3: Spotlight
Melissa MacKinnon
www.melissamackinnon.wordpress.com
June 4: Guest blog
Ebook Escapes
June 5: Author Interview
Eclipse Reviews
http://totaleclipsereviews.blogspot.com/
June 6: Spotlight
Share My Destiny
http://sharemydestiny.blogspot.com
June 9: Character Interview
Author Karen Swart
http://authorkarenswart.blogspot.com/
June 10: Spotlight
Houston Havens
http://houstonhavens.wordpress.com
June 10: Author Interview
JeanzBookReadNReview
http://jeanzbookreadnreview.blogspot.co.uk/
June 11: Author Interview
Butterfly-o-Meter Books
June 12: Guest blog and review
Penny Dreadful Books and Reviews
June 13: Guest blog
Paranormal Romance Fans for Life
www.paranormalromancefanforlife.blogspot.com
June 13: Spotlight and review
Paranormal Romance and Authors That rock
June 16: Guest blog
Urban Fantasy Investigations
http://urbanfantasyinvestigations.blogspot.com/
June 16: Book Review
Booklover Sue
http://bookloversue.blogspot.com
I hope to see you there!
Much Love
Melissa
xoxox
Thanks for that! Awesome to be able to see how you “travel” with your tours. I was beginning to wonder how Murray was going to cope with the 3 kids, whilst you were touring away and was about to offer my help with school runs etc. Your hard work, determination and success is surely making your fellow South Africans very proud, myself for 1. Wishing you loads of success for your tours and I’ll def be “traveling” with you too.
Ah, thanks my Jenna Benz! Hahaha..I’m sure he would take you up on that offer in a heartbeat!! 🙂 xxx
Good grief! I still owe you a response to your email about the tour! I’m so sorry, totally slipped my mind!
xxx
Sure you have been busy! I forget things all the time 🙂 xxx
Thank you for the break down this was a very helpful article and I wish you many successes.