Book promotion on blogs

[WCP]

To get someone to mention your book in a major blog, do you have to send them a free copy of your book? I think the publisher is doing things like that, but I want to contribute if I can.

I think I need to add interesting content to my blog and then try to get it spread around so that people come to the blog and see my book there.

I have found it difficult to promote, but I am on twitter and am trying different things.

It seems to me the best way would be to make your blog go 'viral' because of some interesting content.

[veinglory]

Well, you would need to send them the book, and they would need to want to see it and blog about it. So if you can think of a blogger who, objectively-speaking, would be interested in your book, there is nothing wring with offering them a copy. Even then you have a pretty big chance that you will send the book and nothing more will ever happen....

[WCP]

Thanks for the info - Yeah I think that is the only way to go about it

[SandraBeckwith]

I wrote a guest column on how to set up and execute a virtual (blog) book tour that you might find helpful. Here's the link:
bit.ly/gdALpG (http://www.absolutewrite.com/gdALpG).

Cheers,
Sandy

[Fiona]

The link isn't working for me! I'd love to learn about doing a virtual book tour.

[SandraBeckwith]

Let's try that again with this one: http://bit.ly/gdALpG . Sorry about that!

Sandy

[WCP]

Let's try that again with this one: http://bit.ly/gdALpG . Sorry about that!

Sandy

Thank you!

[SandraBeckwith]

I hope it helps. It's pretty detailed.

Cheers,
Sandy

[Fiona]

Thank you! :)
I'm going to take a read, it looks helpful and I could use some tips in this department.