Meagan, over at By the Book Reviews, which is owned by Teenscenemag.com, is hosting Vampire month, this month. Reviews of vampire books every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, along with some author interviews. I don’t read horror. I saw a couple of horror movies when I was a teen and was afraid to be alone my [...]

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Speaking of author promotions… If any of you are in the Atlanta area, the Decatur Book Festival is going on this weekend. Our friend Mary Ann Rodman will be on the children’s stage Saturday at 3:00 PM. Stop by if you have a chance. Another local author and newfound friend, Connie Fleming, will be on [...]

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A couple of weeks ago, I was talking about how editors like to promote their authors, and I mentioned a book by Kathryn Fitzmaurice–The Year the Swallows Came Early. Kathryn kindly sent me the cover pic. Pretty, huh? Maybe we’ll be able to talk her into doing a tour with us. Who knows? It’s her [...]

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So what did the bloggers gain from the first tour? Well, for one thing, when we promote children’s book authors, we also promote our own blogs. This week my visitors doubled. Both the unique hits and the page views doubled on both of my children’s book blogs. Are these visitors who will come back when [...]

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Heh, heh See how I put Author Promotions in the title of this post? I told you I’m going to try to move my site up for those key words. Because I want children’s book authors who are looking to promote their books to be able to find me. Why? Because I think the tours [...]

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We enter the second day of the Jimmy’s Stars blog tour. Exciting stuff out there. There is a book give-away at A Mom Speaks. I’m also offering the book at All About Children’s Books. If you like cryptograms, head on over there. Becky, at Becky’s Book Reviews, has a wonderful interview with Mary Ann. So [...]

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If you Google “Children’s Book Blog Tour” or “Children’s Book Blog Tours” KidzBookBuzz.com comes up number one. “Children’s blog book tour” brings us up second and if you add an “s” to “tours” we’re third. “Book Blog Tour” brings us up in the second slot. For “blog tour” and for “author promotions” we don’t make [...]

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Whew! I’m back from an exhausting, but oh-so-fun, week in LA. The SCBWI conference was great. Agents and editors and talented writers galore. What the conference will end up meaning to me as a writer remains to be seen. I met an agent I think I could work well with, and I met two dream [...]

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I’ve bumped up alongside Bonnie Calhoun on various and sundry sites for a long time. When you hang in the Christian publishing world you get familiar with names and faces. And I’ve made no secret of the fact that the thing that gave me the idea to launch a children’s book blog tour, was watching [...]

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If you’d like a copy of Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow, all you have to do is download it. Free. And here’s why. There are a couple of ways people might respond to such an offer. They might figure that since the book is free, it’s not very good. If they think that, they should [...]

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