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Author Sandy Lender has some great tips on getting your online book tour set up:

I put together a professional-looking group page on Yahoo where potential hosts of the Online Book Tour could download images, my bio, a short and long synopsis of the book, some FAQs (read: an already-prepared interview), two guest blog articles, a press release announcing what we were doing that they could send to their local newspapers if they wanted to get themselves local publicity (read: pump up their own promotion), and a blog announcement to post on their site to get folks aware that they were having an author stop by.

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So how about a virtual book tour? I don’t mean a web cam trained on you as you sign books, broadcasting your smiling image across the Internet, though you certainly could do that. There is a more efficient, less time-intensive way to structure a virtual tour in cyber space.

Here’s a plan to consider. And it works especially well when you have a web site where you can feature a calendar of upcoming events. The plan is to book yourself for interviews, guest blogs, live chats, online workshops, and forum or group “appearances” online, all within a close span of time…

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A contest can bump up the hits to your website and attract interest for your books. The question is: What do you give a way as the prize?

This is a controversial subject for some authors. In electronic publishing, it’s become quite common to have a contest where the prize is a free download of the author’s recently released ebook. Nice prize. But I have to wonder about the benefit to the author.

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