Yvonne Russell, of Grow Your Writing Business,  asked me to write a guest post, Virtual Blog Tours – The Latest Innovation for Promoting Your Writing .  Going on a virtual blog tour has become a popular technique for promoting one’s writing business and books.  I’ve hosted a number of writers at my author blog, Mary Emma’s Potpourri of Writing and encourage writers to try this method of promotion.
I also wrote about this topic here on  Quilting and Patchwork to let writers of quilting and fabric art books know they could become involved in virtual blog tours, too. 
I’ve also interviewed blog tour coordinator Dorothy Thompson at Home Biz Notes, …read more

The hottest technique right now for authors to promote their books is the blog tour or virtual book signing.  I’ve been hosting these at my author blog, Mary Emma’s Potpourri of Writing, and would like to do some here.
If authors of quilting and fabric art books have never considered virtual book tours, or thought they were only for novelists, it’s time for rethinking.  It appears that novelists may have been among the first to use this method of promotion.   However, many other writers, as well as workshop teachers, can utilize virtual blog tours for getting their name before the public.
Some writers coordinate their …read more