Thursday, August 28, 2014

How Do You Like It?: Book Tours/Promotion



What kind of book tour/promotion posts do you like? 
Which topics interest you, make you immediately want to click that link, read that post? 
And how big an impact do giveaways have?

Right now I tend to just do reviews, author interviews, or spotlights, but I'd love to start offering you guys broader content! Below is a list of blog tour post topics (if you know any others, do let me know!) - please comment below with what interests you! And how much impact do giveaways have on you visiting a book tour/promotion post? I'd like to know!

  • Review
  • Author Interview
  • Character Interview
  • This or That
  • Tens List
  • Dream Cast
  • Music Playlist
  • Guest Post
  • Excerpt/Spotlight
  • 10 Random Things About the Author
  • 10 Favorite Books Author Read This Year
  • Scavenger Hunt


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3 comments:

  1. My favorite out of all of those is the playlist but I also love a guest post where the author shares an opinion on a popular bookish subject.

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  2. This is a great question! I rarely visit tour posts unless they have a review, BUT I still post spotlights on my blog for books that look interesting to me because I like to give my readers the chance to win the giveaways! Lately, I have more books to read than I can handle, so I don't enter a ton of giveaways myself, but I'm sure I'll go back to entering again at some point. I think I just got burned out. I do find that my giveaway posts on my blog tend to attract more readers than posts without. Good luck figuring it all out!!

    Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction

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  3. To be honest, my knowledge of book tours is limited and I'm still only KINDA sure about what they are and how they work. But from the few I've come across, I really enjoy the author interviews. I've never come across a dream cast of music playlist but I would LOVE that.
    Giveaways don't mean that much to me, mainly because I already have more books than I can swallow right now, but also because I follow many US blogs and got into a habit of not bothering to enter, even though many/most do ship to the UK. Bad habit, I guess. I have fallen into a pit of pessimism lately.

    Interesting post! Sorry i've been AWOL, it's a long story... it really is.

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