What hosting a VBT would entail is for the blog or website owner to allow authors to make their blog/website one of their pit stops. This could be either in the form of an author interview, where you can submit a series of questions for the author to answer, or in the form of a blog blurb, where the author submits an article about themselves and their books, for you to post on a date agreed upon in a VBT schedule.
The benefits of hosting include increased traffic to your blog/website, a targeted audience, free promotion of your own products or books, entry into a blog of the week and your blog name and link listed at BK Walker Books.
VBT's are also promoted via Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, and Authors Supporting Authors, along with advertisements through the media (newspapers/magazines), with mention of your blog or at least a point of direction to your blog, depending on media requirements.
If you would like to host authors on your blog or website during a book tour, please send the following information to bkwalkerbooks@comcast.net, with "I Want To Be A Tour Host" in the subject line.
1. Your Blog Name
2. Your Blog Address
3. Your Preference for Genre
4. Do you have a day preference that you want just for hosting for The VBT Cafe'?
5. What feature do you prefer? (Guest Blog, Author Interview, Review, Giveaway)
6. If reviewing a book, where can you post a review to (Amazon, Goodreads, Blog Only)?
All blog owners are encouraged to inquire, there are no "blog type" requirements, nor does your blog need to be geared towards the authors, writers, and book industry.
Thank you and I hope to hear from you soon.
BK Walker, Authors Supporting Authors, and BK Media & Entertainment are all associated and created by BK Walker.
You May Add Our Button To Your Page
Testimonies
http://authorsbyauthors.blogspot.com
-This is Ami Blackwelder, from http://amiblackwelder.com and I am an author and a VBT host on my blog http://hotgossiphotreviews.blogspot.com. I have loved this experience so far, meeting a plethora of new authors excited about sharing their personal stories and their novels with me. There is something special about hearing the first words of an excited author's novel...finding out where it will take you...what characters you will fall in love with... I am so grateful for the opportunity to not only host authors, but for other authors and bloggers to care enough to host me in return. It is a network of friendship and support and Brandi does an excellent job of organizing it!
-The VBT's have been an absolutely wonderful experience. I have been able to interview and be interviewed by some amazing and creative people. I am so thrilled to be a part of this! ~ L.E. Harvey http://www.leharvey.com
-I've done online marketing as part of a marketing plan for what seems like forever, but have never had someone else arrange bookings for me - this 2.5 month experience with BK's Virtual Blog Tours has been a very interesting experience. It was a rush, both emotionally and mentally, to get all the interviews and articles in and then make sure all the promotions were done on my end for these events. I've certainly noticed a traffic increase on my blogs, radio shows and website - and having someone else arrange this was so much less work than doing it all by myself. ~Lillian Brummet http://www.brummet.ca

RSS Feed