To get the word out about Something Furry Underfoot, I hired two marketeers, as I call them, which are people who market things like books. One marketeer is Jenkins Group, a book marketing company in my home state of Michigan. They got me set up with something called ReviewDirect which reaches something like 18,000 librarians, book stores, colleges and universities. They also issued a press release on September 25 targeted to media and other folks who are at interested in pets.
Meanwhile, my other marketeer, Stormi, from Lightning Book Productions, set up a virtual book blog tour for me. That means my book will be talked about on various book blog sites from September 26- October 10 by people who blog about books from their homes in the UK, Ireland, Canada, Nigeria, and the United States. The schedule of events is below.
Also, check out my new video about Bumpkin, the domestic duck, by clicking on the Videos page of my web site. Thanks!
September:
26th Rachel @ My Kid Has Paws. Here is Rachel’s great review!
27th Annette @ Books & Tales Here is my author interview!
28th Heather @ Sit Down Saturday. Interview and exerpt from my book!
29th Stormi @ Books, Movies, Reviews, Oh My!. Summary of my book.
Ruth @ My Devotional Thoughts. A 5-star review!
30th Debra @ 3 Partners in Shopping, Nana, Mommy & Sissy Too!. Guest post.
October:
1st Lade @ We Blog About Books. A fun guest post. This site is in Nigeria.
2nd Shannon @ These are but Shadows. An awesome review and a giveaway! Enter to win a free copy of my book here: http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/6289a78/
Sara @ A Drunken Druid’s View. Another sweet review! From Ireland.
3rd Bethany @ Cascadian Nomads. A wonderful, touching review.
Patrick @ http://the-thursday-interview.blogspot.com/. A fun interview with some really interesting questions. This site is in Ireland.
4th Ann @ Pawsitively Pets. Guest post with photos of some of the pets.
5th Morgen @ Morgen Bailey’s Writing Blog. Another fun author interview. This site is in the UK.
6th Darryl @ Savage Lullabye and 7th Susan @ Green Frog Reviews. These were both supposed to be reviews and both were no-shows. BUT, my new friend, Blondie, from the UK, posted an amazing review on Amazon.com and GoodReads! Thanks, Blondie!
8th Brianna @ Listful Booking. Review.
9th Kathleen @ Jersey Girl Book Reviews. A very nice review, and a plug for my book to animal lovers.
Kimberly @ Turning the Pages. A 4 1/2 star review! This blogger blogs from Canada.
10th Valerie @ The Gothic Ballerina. A guest blog posting about Bumpkin, the domestic duck!
Overall, the book blog tour was a huge success–bloggers who provided reviews had some awesome comments to help promote the book, and several media contacts were made, including my first radio interview, which will be October 26 at 3 p.m. with Dream4More. (More on that later). Three other media folks are currently reviewing my book, and there were lots of Tweets and ReTweets. Thanks everyone for helping get the word out about Something Furry Underfoot!