Literary Blogs - Promotion

There are some lists of book review blogs on AW: you might want to search for them.

Otherwise, I think your best bet is to find blogs which look interesting and start to participate in the conversations there. I get lots of requests from writers who want to use my blog to promote their work: I rarely agree unless I know of the writer, and they've already added to the discussions on my blog. I don't like to feel used.

You might find blogs by people who review self-pubbed books and send them your book.

Not saying that you would, but some people do: Drive-by postings to advertise a book are usually deleted on sight.

This is an area where I'm also looking for new ideas, so I'm looking forward to responses as much as you, Proud.

The main sites/blogs that I check in with are already known to you, I think. Lambda Literary and AfterElton get lots of traffic. AfterElton has a literary forum that is pretty active, plus Brent Hartinger does a book review column there every two weeks or so. (neither site has brought me much traffic though...getting a guest column or book review would be a great way to raise your profile)

Another thing I've done is 'follow' or participate at other author's site, those who have a similar readership. There are also some writers communities that have promotional opportunities--Writers Cafe and Red Book.