Swallows Flying High

February 26th, 2009 · No Comments

Well, I am really impressed with the tour for The Year the Swallows Came Early, by Kathryn Fitmaurice. On the one hand I think it’s the first time we weren’t able to hit number one on Technorati. This was a small tour. But even if we had ten more bloggers on board we wouldn’t have been able to hit the number one slot. The book that was in that space while we were on tour had over fifty blogs posting.

heh heh Too bad they didn’t have a cover shot. I’m sure whoever gave all those books to the bloggers was spitting mad that the cover didn’t show up on Technorati.

We spent about 24 hours in number two slot, and another day shuffling between two and three. Today we’re still showing on the page in the twelfth spot.

Doesn’t Groovy just look like she’s on top of the world in that shot? Who cares that she wasn’t number one. Groovy knows the recognition will come when the time is right just as the swallows always come when the time is right.

But what I liked best about this tour was the amount of energy so many of you had. We had some great three-day posters, and even the one-day bloggers seemed to really like the book instead of just posting because they had to.

I’m glad because this book was lovingly crafted and it delivers on its promises.

I’m happy to see at Amazon that it’s picking up a lot of positive reviews. If any of you want to copy and paste your reviews over at Amazon, btw, that’s a good way to help authors you like and it’s also a good way to attract people to your blog. You can set up a profile where you give your web page address. Then when people like your reviews they can click on you to find more of your stuff.

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