feng shui assassin

I’ve been approached by Joe Konrath to be a part of his ‘blog tour‘ where he will visit a blog each day to help promote the release of his new book ‘Afraid’.

Fantastic idea - and what a privilege.

The concept is a great approach to the old nugget of visiting bookshops to sign & promote your release. A virtual tour of related blogs will widen his audience, perhaps create a web-buzz and hopefully do the job of selling the book.

I hope he has a few big-hitting blogs he’s able to visit (Neil Gaiman or even the Kingster himself news section?) because, although JA Konrath is no slouch in the web world - it’s a bit of a one-sided match if I host his blog tour on this pokey site!

I know the virtual tour is nothing new - but it’s taken an established author to really start making an impact - and I’d love to see more of this kind of thing through the blogosphere! Publishers really do have to wake up to the internet and go above and beyond just offering e-books at inflated prices - and really take on the concept of blog tours, virtual communities and the rest of the networking potentials.

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