NWUK member Fiona
Linday has just got a discounted offer of a weeklong book tour, the Orangeberry Social
Butterfly, given
via her website. It is regarding her easy-read collection of short stories, 'The Heavenly Road Trip'.
For $19.99, over the
week starting the 14th December, Fiona will have five blog stops at reviewers’/writers'
sites, where she will be featured and interviewed. This is one of the cheapest types
of book marketing offered by Orangeberry
Book Tours (there are several more elaborate ones). The interview was done
beforehand, with Fiona answering over twenty given questions. She is looking
forward to a review from one of the blog hosts, Mommy Adventures, on the 15th of December.
Fiona was also asked
to respond from the author’s
perspective, the 'Writing to me is…' question.
Content that will appear on the guest posts.
Full
details of her tour are HERE .
Details
of the Orangeberry Book Tour services
are below:
OBT was created in October 2010 by Pandora
Poikilos, a writer. Together with a few other writers, she worked on a three
month long book launch festival and book tours were her contribution to the
festival. The demand was increasingly high and she spent quite a bit of time
adjusting the tours to meet the requirements of participating authors and
bloggers leading to what the tour is today.
How does OBT work and what
have the results been for authors who've used it?
The main
goal of OBT is to raise awareness for the author and his/her book via social
media. This means OBT offers more than blog stops. Hence, the name - BOOK tours
not blog tours; running Twitter Blasts, blog stops and other types of smaller
social awareness campaigns which focus on both author and the book.
She understands that a big budget is not something we all have when
starting our writing careers, hence, there is a free book tour package (Orangeberry Basic) which allows authors
to have a free book tour but they have to host other authors in return.
For those who pay for book tours, the money is then used to finance the Orangeberry Goodie Bag which distributes
gifts to blog hosts and the site’s visitors.
Results wise, most authors have experienced increased sales although the
exact quantities vary. Some have experienced sales as low as 20 books a day and
others have had more than 200 total sales during an Orangeberry Phoenix book tour which lasts for 30 days.
Pandora does want to stress that results differ for each book, and she
does point out glaring formatting errors or content issues to authors.
