Hi, everyone,
With the publishing rush almost behind me (still need to fix a couple of formatting issues), I’m looking forward to the next phase – marketing and shameless promotion. On my list of things to do is a blog tour – would anyone be interested in hosting my guest blog or doing an interview? I would offer to host yours in exchange. Probably worth mentioning that I’m not interested in paid reviews, only the genuine ones.
Please let me know and thanks again for your support!
What is this blog tour about?
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Hi, Carlos – blog tour is basically either me guest-blogging on other people’s blogs, or other people “interviewing” me. it’s to promote my new comedy novel Shizzle, Inc.
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Oh… so I would have to interview you? It sounds nice, is it reciprocal?
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Hi, Carlos, yes – certainly reciprocal. It’s a chicklit book, does it fit with your blog theme?
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My blog is very eclectic I write about books, movies, politics, music, sports, a lot much more.
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I’d love to be part of your blog tour 🙂 I’m not a very well known blog, not well known at all really, but it would be great to be a part of this 🙂 let me know 🙂
Georgie xxx
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Hi, Georgie – thank you! Well, then I can help you too, by linking to my blog and all of my 20+ thousand followers 🙂 I will email you from home, so you will probably get it tomorrow (I’m in Australia) 🙂
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I would love to do this!
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Hey there – I’d love to have you guest blog or do an interview with you on my blog – Have Words Will Scribble.
Shoot me an email and I’ll be happy to coordinate with you to get things rolling for you.
😀 – congrats on being too busy – that’s a fantastic place to be!!
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I would be happy to have you guest post. Congratulations on your novel! 🙂
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Thank you, Johnny! I will email you from home, so you will probably get it tomorrow (I’m in Australia) 🙂
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I am totally down for that. Hit me up (don’t bruise me through!) And we can work something out! 🙂 😄 😆
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Haha! Thank you, Steph! I will email you from home, so you will probably get it tomorrow (I’m in Australia) 🙂
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Sounds great then we can take details … and chocolate! lol Okay, okay, I must be the only one who dreams in chocolate! lol
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I’ve never done an interview, or hosted a blog before, but I’d love to try. Just let me know what type of questions you’re looking for.
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I’ve never done this either 🙂 I will email you from home, so you will probably get it tomorrow (I’m in Australia). Seems that everyone wants to know “how you’d done it” or something like that 🙂
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Sounds good. I hope you had fun in Australia. Sounds good, I’ll start up a preliminary list of possible questions and we can go from there.
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I’d be happy to have you guest post and do an interview if you want. I wrote this all up in another reply, but I don’t know where it went. lol
Just letting you know in case there’s another reply from me as well.
If you can give me a few dates – I’ll get back with you on what works for me. Also, I’d be happy to help you coordinate the people who want to be a part since you’re bogged down in the most amazing way ever – getting your book published!! 👏👏👏🎉👏👏👏
Thanks,
Kelli
http://www.havewordswillscribble.com
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OMG – I told you I wrote 2 replies! 😂😂😂
I just borrowed your book from Kindle Unlimited so I’ll get that read straightaway.
Thanks,
Kelli
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Wow, thank you Kelli! Can’t wait 🙂
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Hi, Kelli, I will email from home, so you will probably get it tomorrow (I’m in Australia) 🙂
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Sounds great!! Your book is being published AND you’re in Australia? I’m not sure I can be your friend anymore! lol
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Haha! Nah, you will cry for me after you learn that a 2br apartment rent is about $500 per week…and that a piece of crap house is about a million to buy 🙂 Wait, no smiley faces about this! 😦
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Whoa! Ok, I’ll just continue to look at pictures of Australia and continue to walk around saying “Throw some shrimp on the barbee” and happily stay in the U.S.! lol 🇺🇸👍🏻🇺🇸
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Thank you, Kelli – I will send you an email
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I’d love to interview you/for you to do a guest post on my blog. I’m not a very big blogger but I love connecting with other writers and the sample of Shizzle Inc. sucked me in immediately! The only reason I haven’t bought it yet is because I’m currently broke…I guess I’m just waiting to be discovered:)
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Hi, Sarah – thank you! Sucked you in, huh? I will do promotions, so you could get it for free sometime in the future.
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I’d be happy to do it as well. I also got your book for free as an amazon prime member. I could do a review along with your tour.
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Thank you so much! I can’t wait to hear what you think about it…I will email you from home, so you will probably get it tomorrow (I’m in Australia) 🙂
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Well I’m jealous! I’ve always wanted to go to Australia!
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Me too (I’ve lived in the US for 14 years). Never had a chance, so just had a “quarter-life” crisis and moved here 🙂
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I wish I could do that but my kids might get upset with that. Lol.
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I have a tiny blog, and I usually only do reviews on it. Are you looking for reviews on the tour?
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Hi, SM! Yes, I would love a review, too 🙂 This is my first book, so I’m not at all sure what I’m doing, just trying things and blogging about it…
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Great! I will pick up a copy this evening. Let me know what dates you’re looking at and if you have a media kit 🙂
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I will email you from home, so you will probably get it tomorrow (I’m in Australia) 🙂
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I’m not sure what it means, but count with me 🙂
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Hi, Wilcho! Thank you – it means either you post a review, interview me, or I blog as a guest on your blog. Interested?
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Sure. I’m interested. I’ll prepare an interview to you
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That would be so awesome :-). You can email me at: ana.spoke (at) yahoo.com One day, I’d love to visit Argentina and also do it in person…:-)
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If you coming, I’ll be your tourist guide here 🙂
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I will be more than happy to be a part of it. 😀 Reading about your journey already feels like I am a part of this so why not officially. ❤ 😀
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🙂 Thank you so much, Dimple! I will email you directly.
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I will be eagerly waiting for it. 🙂
Have a nice day. 😀
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I’d love to do this! I can’t wait to do a interview or guest blogging thing. Since they would both include books, writing, and/or reading it would definitely fit in with my blog 🙂
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Awesome! I will email you tonight, thank you so much!
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Great! I can’t wait to work with you 🙂 I’ve never done a interview or guest blogging thing so I’m anxious to see how it goes 😀 No thank you 😉
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It’ll be great, I have a gut feeling 🙂
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Oops I’m guessing that you need my email?
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Hi, I have it – just didn’t get a chance yet, crazy day yesterday and straight to work today. Thank you, I will email tonight.
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Hi! Ah okay. Just wanted to make sure you had it. No problem! Life gets hectic 🙂
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Hi And I would love to host you for your blog tour as majority of my followers are female I think it could get a good audience. Good luck with the launch and publicity if you would like to contact me by email details on my contact page.☺
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Thank you so much! I will email you tonight from home, so you will get it tomorrow morning (I’m in Australia).
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No probs look forward to hearing from you it is 330 in the morning here in England just finishing work and going to bed so by the time I get up I will check emails. Cheers Rich.
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I would love to do that! Congrats on finishing your book 🙂 Email me at victoriaj.scott@yahoo.co.nz and we can plan further, if you haven’t found someone else already. I also know of Nori and the Sunday Street Team, and Paige Boggs, who both do regular blog tours
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That would be great! I am so happy to have so many offers to help – I will get to each and every one!
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Ana, I would love the opportunity to interview you for my blog. I am trying to develop a habit around blogging and interviewing someone is on my action plan. It would be about the book, but also about your blog and writing habits. Would that suit your needs?
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That sounds great, Cori! I will email you tonight or tomorrow.
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Great! You can reach me at cori.casner@gmail.com
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I’ll refer a book blogger I know to you.
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Thank you so much, April!
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I’m not a well known blogger but I am definitely interested! This sounds awesome. I hope you involve me and congrats on the book 🙂
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I would love to, Kiki – I will try to email within a day or two – starting to get a lot of requests. very exciting, I will get to everyone. Looks like I will need to do a spreadsheet 🙂
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Is your book YA or MG- teen. Can you send me a copy (ebook). I need a blog interview as well. My title is Fight With Your Mind Not with Your Fists (MG-Teen) sci-fi, visionary -urban.
Are you in Australia, I did a skype interview a year ago with an author in California, so I don’t know if you have skype there.
Let me know Ana..
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Hi, my protagonist is 20 years old and it’s a comedy with a lot of references to drug use, sex. Also a lot of (I hope funny) profanity. Are you still interested? In terms of Skype – I have an account, but we could also do it via email.
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That’s honest. I don’t know, because I write for children mostly and as a Christian I tend to really monitor what I write. Do you review books or blog books. Do you have a PDF or ebook to send me ? My book is in a contest now I will send it next month if allowed, Fight With Your Mind _ Not With Your Fists. by Kidsmart.
Let me know, or send the book.
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I’m doing a book review for an author this month so I can’t do it until October. He just sent me two children’s books. I also have to write a screenplay for my MG book this month. October first week is the earliest.. If that’s okay I write the questions between now and then.
Great, you made the list B seller, Yay!
Take care
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That would be perfect, actually, as I currently have too many offers. I’d like to spread these guest blogs over a few weeks or even months, to keep the ball rolling. Just let me know when you’re free. Also, the book is available for a free download, this weekend only – please get it now, because I don’t have any other way to provide free copies to reviewers.
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I’d love for you to guest post on my blog! Let me know when! Sounds like you have quite a following already!
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I’d love that too! I will email you directly, if that’s ok. I’m so touched by all the offers, but I’m sure I can do them all 🙂 will just take a while.
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No problem! I can be reached at drmegsorick@gmail.com
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Hello I would love to be a part of your blog tour, my blog isn’t exactly well known but a few people that follow me are well known so they may see it and want to help as well.
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Thank you very much! I will email you directly in a day or two – will have to get myself organised with a spreadsheet 🙂
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Sounds like fun, though I have not many “followers” on my blog, I will take it to G+ as well (7500+ followers there). If we do a swap I would like you to prompt me, so I am not scaring away your audience with something…
let me know…
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Hi, Marco – that would be awesome 🙂 I’m happy to do a prompt/interview style. What would be so scary? 🙂
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We can do this: I ask 3 questions to you and you answer them + a blog about whatever you feel like and I host it. You end in a prompt (title or topic, min amount of word you want on your blog) and I will write something not scary (as in I may be passionate about Donald trump for president or against Syrian refugees entering Europe or a rant about how gay Firefighters are (they are not). All pretty scary and something you may not want or your blog 🙂 (sorry I am having fun with this…)
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I’m all abou fun, but I’m about to marry a firefighter, so watch that one, ok? 🙂 the plan sounds good, I will email you later today or tomorrow
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Hi Ana, I would happily do an interview and obviously book promotion through that. I write in fantasy, poetry, romance, allegory but blog about writing and currently prepping a book for publishing. I haven’t been going that long but have been longing to start linking up with other authors. Up for it at this end if you are!
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Sounds great 🙂 I will email you directly.
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carpetlessleprechaun@hotmail.com
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Hi Anna, I would love to host a guest blog from you!
Hearing about self publishing would be very interesting. Please email mE and we can sort something out.
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Hi, Julia! Sounds great – I will email later today or tomorrow – got to organise myself. Feels like a spreadsheet job to me 🙂
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CONGRATS! It’s such a relief to have your book published, and a huge effort, I just self published mine in July. I’d be very happy to do an interview with you and have a reciprocal one on your great blog site! Our books are both chick lit kind of category, mine veering to YA and I have lots of adult readers too.
Looking forward to liaising with you
PJ
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Thank you so much, PJ! Sounds like a great idea – I will email you a bit later today.
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Hi Ana!
It looks like you have plenty of volunteers, so instead I just wanted to write and encourage you through this process! It sure is hard to navigate the publishing world, so I’m glad to hear you are almost there!!
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Hi, Thane! Thank you very much 🙂 Hey, I sold 10 books in 5 days of Shizzle, Inc existence, so I’m, like, so there already 🙂
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You are!! You’re certainly more famous than the rest of us 😉
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Funny you should mention it – I just posted a new entry – Shizzle, Inc is #72 on the bestseller list in Humor. So, like, am I famous now?
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As far as I’m concerned you are! Don’t let the fame die though, if Hollywood has taught us anything, it’s time for you to do something brash and absurd 😉
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You’re so right…I’m crumbling under pressure…what do you think, attacking someone with umbrella? Or too soon?
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Never too soon for the old umbrella attack Ana! Especially if you follow that up by checking into rehab (a 5 star resort in Miami) for some obscure phobia 🙂
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If the whole tour starts to calm down, give me a shout. In November I will be writing with my Nano buddy’s and it might be a nice idea to do a small interview with questions from them. We ca
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Hi, Denise, and thank you! I will email you anyway so that you have my contact details.
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I do book reviews and interviews… if that’s what you’re looking for… that’s basically the main point of my site… and my own occasional ramblings… check me out if you’d like…
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Hi, that would be great – I saw your questions, can email you directly
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I look forward to hearing from you…
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Would you be interested in doing a guest post at my blog? And don’t forget, let me know if you want me to promote your book on my sidebar.
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Hi, Glynis, yes please 🙂 And yes to the sidebar – do you need the jpeg of my cover? I will email you directly.
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I would love to have you do a guest post on my blog, if you want to!
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Thank you, LJ – I’m afraid I’m overcommitted already! Thank you very much for your support!
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I don’t have many followers and don’t have a clue how to guest blog, but if you give me some destructions, you never know I might get it sorta right.
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Thank you, Dee! I might be in over my head now – I will keep you in mind 🙂
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Hahaha! I just sent you a response on one of your posts, asking if you’d like to be a guest author/blogger, to speak about your journey to become a best-selling author! I added a link to my guest author/blogger page, but I’ll add it again here!
Peace!
Tamara
https://onbecomingalemonademaker.wordpress.com/guest-authors/
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Thank you, Tamara! That would be great – I’m trying to get organised with a spreadsheet 🙂 I will email you directly
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I’d be happy to help you! Let me know how I can help!
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Email me at jellicle1977@yahoo.com
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I wouldn’t mind helping out, if need be 🙂
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Thank you, Sani! I think I’m in over my head for now 🙂
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Every one aspiring to become or do something exquisite in this world is in over their head. I guess that would make the two of us. (:
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You are very welcome to come by my blog. My only stipulation is that there’s a post. Contact me if you are interested.
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Thank you, Shehanne!
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Hi, Ana! (First, I’m also at Spontaneous Whimsy, where I think you might recognize better.) I’m a high school language arts teacher, and our district is getting really enthusiastic about online teaching opportunities, and my Logophiles Unleashed website is my classroom website. I would be incredibly excited if we could work out a way for you to post for my students about the incredible adventure of publishing your book!
All of my sites are pretty new, so I feel kind of bad asking since I don’t get much traffic. The school and/or district would link to the “interview,” and feature it, though. (I spoke with the ed tech coordinator today.)
If you’re interested, let me know. You can contact me via comment at or at mrs.rains.gp@gmail.com.
Tracey
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Hi, Tracey – how lovely! I’d love to encourage kids – I will email you later or tomorrow. I do have a large number of offers, so if you are ok to work it out for a future post (maybe in a few weeks?) that would be great.
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Thank you so much! I know they will be very excited!
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I’d be happy to interview you! Do you have a specific date for the interview? (I can email the questions!)
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Hi, Amanda! That would be great – I would like to spread the interviews over a few weeks, so your timeline would work for me. You can email me: ana.spoke (at) yahoo (dot) com
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Just downloaded the book. Would love to help you out. Congrats.
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Thank you, Nic! I hope you like this protagonist – she does and says some pretty stupid things…to tell the truth, Confederacy was probably one of my inspirations…
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Haha. The problem I’m having with Ignatius is that he doesn’t have any redeeming qualities. I like some pretty despicable characters, I even felt empathic towards necrophilic Lester Ballard in Child of God, but I get nothing from Ignatius. I’ll let you know when I start yours. I’d like to interview you after I read it. Maybe via email?
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That would be great, thank you, Nic. You can email me at ana.spoke (at) yahoo (dot) com, an interview via email sounds great 🙂
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I like the idea of your offer. It’s a great way to gain exposure. I’m afraid a blog tour on my site wouldn’t gain you as much as it would me but I certainly appreciate the spirit that you have for your adventure.
I’m just getting started myself and perhaps down the road we can exchange blog interviews if my dream pans out. In the meantime, keep up the good fight, and encouraging authors to get out there.
Good luck and I’ll be watching.
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Hi, Ken! Thank you very much – I will definitely keep going – comments like these are incredibly encouraging!
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P.S. I am now following you on Twitter too, so I can re-post there. In fact, one of the cool things about WordPress is that anything I reblog automatically goes to all my other social sites! I love that!
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Thank you, Sherrie! Have you linked your blog to your Goodreads profile and your Amazon’s Author Central profile? Same deal – write in one place, and it all gets populated. I love technology 🙂
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If you’re still interested, I’d like to do an interview. emwink81@gmail.com
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Thank you so much for the offer! I will keep that in mind – unfortunately I’m yet to get through a dozen or so earlier offers, just not enough hours in a day…
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