Now, if you’re not someone who loves to give seminars, aim online for those sales. Of everything you mentioned above, virtual book tours has got to be my most favorite, of course. If you’re looking for name visibility, go on one of these tours. People will get sick of seeing you all over the place! But, one person who will get tired of you the most will be our friend, the Google search engine.
You also keep a series of blogs which offer free promo opportunities for authors.
I have to laugh because in an earlier question, you asked me about how much is involved putting a virtual book tour together and I told you it took a lot of time on the author’s part — well, this interview, for example, has taken almost two hours to complete. Multiply that by 20 and you’ll see just how much time goes into one.
Okay, my promo blogs! What I’ve done is create quite a few promo blogs to help authors promote their books and all of them are absolutely free. Here they are by alphabetical order:
- As the Page Turns
- Author Talks
- Be My Guest!
- Book Publishing Secrets of Authors
- Plug Your Book!
- Plug Your Book Trailer!
- Straight from the Author’s Mouth
- The Story Behind the Books
- The Writer’s Life
Tell us a bit about your book promotion book.
My book promotion book is actually a self-published e-book titled A Complete Guide to Promoting and Selling Your Self-Published eBook. A lot of the principles in the book I am using to help my clients promote their books through these tours. Don’t let the “self-published e-book” fool you — it can be used to promote your print or otherwise published book, also. The main goal of this book is to show authors how to and where to promote online. You can visit the webpage. As a matter of fact, I’m offering a freebie to go along with the purchase of the promoting ebook. You can get absolutely free the radio promotion e-book, 101 Internet Radio Shows To Promote Your Books. This is a limited time offer, but it’s a great deal while it lasts.
Putting on your author and relationship expert hat, please tell us about your other books.
Oh, my goodness, I have to tell you, of all the books I have, Romancing the Soul is very dear to me because the book wouldn’t even have been thought of if not for a dream I had when my twin soul came to me and told me to put this together. I know it sounds new-agey, but it really happened. Romancing the Soul is a collection of true soul mate stories and was published by Zumaya Publications. My other book I co-wrote is titled The Search for the Million $$$ Ghost and that’s about an eccentric millionaire’s quest to find the ghost of his late wife and he’ll offer them a million dollars to do it. I co-wrote that with Heide AW Kaminski and Pam Lawneczak. Both books can be found at Amazon.
Article comments
1 - Prada Jones
Very good article!
2 - Mary Emma Allen
Wonderful interview! You had some great questions, Mayra, that brought forth much helpful information from Dorothy that every author can use. Every time I read something Dorothy has written, whether in her blogs or in an interview, I learn something more about book promotion. I host many of Dorothy's authors on my blog and enjoy working with her...and have ever since my story was published in her first anthology.
3 - Linda E. Austin
Great interview with Dorothy, and very informative. Good links, too. There's so much out there in the way of promotion that it's almost overwhelming, but presentations and internet marketing are the way to go.
4 - Alma Bond
Please let me know your fees.
Thank you,
Alma Bond
5 - Dorothy Thompson
Thank you everyone and especially Mayra for being so kind to ask me over here. As for my fees, all you have to do is go to my site and the fees are right there on the website. [Personal contact info deleted]. ;o)
6 - Toby Heathcotte
I enjoyed the article very much. It has helpful ideas.
Best,
Toby
7 - Kathleen Gage
Wow Dorothy! Great information. Very detailed and truthful. You certainly don't sugarcoat the reality of blog tours for authors.
Enjoyed reading your information.
Kathleen Gage
8 - heather (errantdreams)
There's so much incredible information in here. I think virtual book tours are a brilliant idea.