August Blog Challenge Ends

I'm pleased to say that I managed to post once a day all through the month of August and so did most of the challengers. Congratulations! Don't our blogs look good now?

Starting on September 2nd, about half our challenge participants will put their blogs up for peer critique over at the Yahoo! Group. If you're an author looking for ways to improve your blogging, the process might give you some hints to help you get better at it. Our focus, of course, is blogging to promote your books. Because your own blog is the launching pad for a good blog book tour. You can learn more about that by reading The Quickest Blog Book Tour Guide Ever.

And Blogger.com still requires word verification to publish. They haven't lifted spam designation yet. Soon I'll have to request they review my blog for the fifth time. Is anyone else having problems with Blogger.com?

Stolen Integrity

I know the name "Stephenie Meyer", but not her books. Today, I read publisher, Karen Syed's blog and learned the first 12 chapters of Meyer's incomplete book, Midnight Sun, were hijacked and posted in rough form on the internet. Foul!

My reaction was first shock, then dismay, then anger. Because I'm a first-reader for other authors and I love doing that job. I love that they value my opinion and that they trust me with their "babies". I can only imagine that Meyer's feelings are akin to a mother who's child has been abused by a babysitter. It's a terrible, terrible act that damages us all in the greater writing community. Our collective trust takes a hit.

To find out the truth from the author's perspective, go directly to her website:

"As some of you may have heard, my partial draft of Midnight Sun was illegally posted on the Internet and has since been virally distributed without my knowledge or permission or the knowledge or permission of my publisher." Read the remainder of the essay by clicking here.

Then go to Karen Syed's blog and leave her your comments, since she started this thread. I don't need more outrage to fuel my anger. I will read at least one Stephenie Meyer book as a demonstration of support. Why haven't I read one yet? Because it has vampires in it. It's that simple. But now, I'll bite the silver bullet.

May benefits accrue to her ten-fold to ease the pain. And dare I say it? May the scofflaw get it back ten-fold, too. Yeah, that should help even out the score a little. Ten-fold at least. Be thankful that I am not the god of fairness.

BBAW Award Nominations Are Open

Nominations are open for Book Blogger Appreciation Week Awards 2008!

Listed below are the categories of awards. Nominate up to two blogs per category and send an email to BbawawardsATgmailDOTcom with your choices.

And the categories for the Book Blogger Appreciation Week Awards 2008 are:

Best General Book Blog

Best Kidlit Blog

Best Christian/Inspirational Fiction Blog

Best Literary Fiction Blog

Best Book Club Blog

Best Romance Blog

Best Thrillers/Mystery/Suspense Blog

Best Non-fiction Blog

Best Young Adult Lit Blog

Best Book/Publishing Industry Blog

Best Challenge Host

Best Community Builder

Best Cookbook Blog

Best History/Historical Fiction Blog

Best Design

Most Chatty

Most Concise

Most Eclectic Taste

Best Name for a Blog

Best Published Author Blog

Best Book published in 2008

Best Meme/Carnival/Event

Most Extravagant Giveaways

Best Book Community site

Write In

Support your favorite blogs and bloggers! Nominations will close on August 31st.

We are still a spam blog according to Blogger. More than a month, and four requests, and still no response. What's up with that?

Twitter

I'm always on the prowl for new marketing tools that support blogging, and Twitter, a micro-blogging site, has become one of my favorite dailies. It's fast, easy, and effective. What more could you ask for when it comes to promoting your books?

There are tricks to maneuvering in Twitter. It doesn't work if you don't interact, post regularly, and communicate meaningfully. Once you "get it", it's fun. But, beyond that, there are benefits to participating that I didn't anticipate. Every single day, I find a links to sites that give me more information, ideas, and connections. They're useful sites that help me in my own work; sites I wouldn't have found on my own.

Today, I picked up this link at Twitter - http://www.sellingbooks.com/. Who doesn't want to learn more about Selling Books? I haven't explored it in great depth, but I will. It's a well-organized site, attractive, and loaded with the kind of added content that makes for many return visits.

What about the rest of you? Do you Twitter? What have you learned over there? Have you discovered any great new sites you didn't know about? What was the hardest thing about learning to Twitter? What's the biggest surprise now that you know how?

Give us a link so we can follow you on Twitter. Here's mine. You can peek at a few of my Twitter comments in the right column, too.

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Yet another day of no service from Blogger.com .... we are not spam!

Day 26 of the August Blogging Challenge

For every day of this challenge, and for many days in July, this blog has required word verification to publish its posts. Why? Because Blogger.com has tagged it as a potential spam blog. How can I get that reviewed and changed? By requesting via their link that a real person look at my blog. I have done that four times, with a week's mandatory wait in between. Still no word from them. Still the annoying requirement to word verify every single time I post or edit a blog. Being somewhat sight-impaired, this is not a convenient step, since I usually must repeat two or three times to get the letters right.

I've asked for help on various blogging forums. Nada.

I've asked for help on Blogger.com's own forum in several threads. Nada.

I'm stuck with Blogger.com because many of my newbie blogging authors have this platform and because WordPress doesn't allow me to upload photos on a dial-up line and Blogger.com does. I've reached the point that the inconvience of switching to another platform is no longer a hurdle, at least not psychologically. Blogger.com has made me that angry with their lack of service. I'd switch in a second if I had a faster service.

What would you do in this situation? Do you have any better ideas on how I can get a real person to look at this blog and deem it as worthy, useful, and definitely NOT spam? I ask you.

Blog Book Tours Help

If you're an author visiting here for the first time, welcome to Blog Book Tours. We are here to support our Yahoo!Group, which is a peer network for published authors contemplating their own virtual tour. The site was started by Dani Greer who felt the notion had good potential to help authors keep down expenses, and was the only logical way to tour a book with the challenges we all face due to climate change and other environmental issues. Blog book tours are simply too good an idea not to promote.

The best way to understand more about the concept of blog book tours, is to click over to Dani's guide called The Quickest Blog Book Tour Guide Ever. This will give you a run-down of what you, as an author, will need to do to plan your own blog tour. Once you've read that, click over to the Y! group and join. Folks there will be glad to answer questions and help you brainstorm ideas you have for your own tour.

If you'd like to host an author on your own blog, Helen Ginger has created a very useful guide to explain what will be expected of you. The most obvious points are that you have a very popular blog, and that the blog theme relates to the subject matter of the book you're hosting. Common sense there, and Helen's guide is filled with more obvious and not-so-obvious pointers.

Finally, remember that your own tour begins with a good blog of your own. Our support group has a Blog-a-Day Challenge twice a year, and even if you don't have a book to tour yet, it's never too early to start getting your tools in place for that kind of book promotion. It 's a long planning process and a year is not to soon to start thinking about and preparing for your own blog book tour. Start posting on your blog often to increase it's readership, and start searching for potential tour hosts. These two aspects take time and energy, and can't be accomplished the week before your anticipated tour. Give yourself at least three months of concentrated effort.

Are you considering a blog book tour for your book? If so, when? Or have you toured a book this way already? Would you consider doing it again? Leave us your comments.

The Power of Story

Picked up at Twitter, an article about The Power of Story on blogs at the ProBlogger site. A good read for anyone who regularly blogs and needs inspiration.

Happy Sunday all!

Saturday - Writing Inspiration of the Day

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Thomas Mann

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That's certainly true of daily blogging, isn't it?

What's your favorite motivational writing quote?

Friday - Joke of the Day

What's your favorite writing joke?

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How many publishers does it take to change a light bulb?
Three. One to change it and two to hold down the author.

How many editors does it take to change a light bulb?
Two, one to change the bulb and one to issue a rejection slip to the old bulb.

How many proofreaders does it take to change a light bulb?
Proofreaders aren't supposed to change light bulbs. They should just query them.

How many mystery writers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Two. One to screw it in almost all the way in and the other to give it a suprising twist at the end.

How many writers does it take to change a light bulb?
Two. One to change the bulb and one to tell a long story about it.

How many literary critics does it take to change a light bulb?
Literary critics don't know how, but rest assured they'll find something wrong with the way you do it.

Thursday - Writing Tool of the Day

Give us a tool tip that really helps you with your writing.

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I don't think anything has changed the regularity and consistency of my writing quite as much as my Alphasmart. Like most owners, I fondly refer to him as Alphie.

Alphie goes everywhere with me. For several years now, I've made it a point to toss him into my tote everywhere I go that takes more than a few hours. He's with me in restaurants, the library, visiting relatives, in bed, and I can't imagine not having him at the tip of my fingers when riding in a car.

I don't think I truly appreciated Alphie and what he does for me until I got Bella, my new whore-red laptop. Bella is a hefty gal. Alphie weighs hardly anything compared to her. No wonder he's still a more frequent piece of carry-on luggage.

So what other outstanding characteristics of my Alphasmart quickly pop to mind? Here's a list:

• Alphasmarts cost 1/3 or less than a laptop


• They run on three AA batteries that last at least six months


• They are virtually indestructible since they were made for school kids


• They have eight 50-page files that upload easily to a Word file


• Alphasmart customer service is excellent... if you should need it


• They donate Alphasmarts to NaNoWriMo - how cool is that?

Here's a photo of my Alpie. Look at those sleek lines. I have the Neo version which comes without email capability. I chose this model in large part to eliminate that distraction, but the Dana version does have this added function among others. Go check it out. For just over $200, the Alphasmart Neo quickly becomes indispensible for any serious writer.

Since I bought my Alphie, two things have happened - they are now marketing directly to writers .... smart! and they have dropped the price... even smarter!

Wednesday - Writing Recipe of the Day

It must be fast and healthy. What's your favorite recipe for intense writing days?

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Spaghetti a la Checca

4 large vine-ripened tomatoes, chopped
4 mashed or minced cloves of garlic
1 cup very good virgin olive oil
1 cup minced fresh basil
salt and pepper to taste

Combine all ingredients and cover, then let ingredients "marry" for several hours at room temperature.

Cook one pound of good spaghetti noodles per instructions, drain, and then pour fresh tomato mixture over piping hot pasta. Serve immediately with fresh- grated parmesan and/or romano cheese.

Alternately for raw food lovers, the sauce works very well over cold zucchini "noodles" shredded with a mandoline or spiral cutter. Omit the cheese for a vegan version.

Tuesday - Writing Tip of the Day

What's the one thing that gets you writing every single day?

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Must write 500 words first thing after waking up in the morning.... before peeing. Doesn't matter what you write. But you get the juices flowing really well (twice) with this technique. Hey, it works! It's all about doing the most important things first.

Monday - Copyright Issue of the Day

Scraping. How do you feel when someone copies one of your blog posts to another site... in it's entirety? Even with attribution?

There are so many variables, it's hard to know where to start. If someone has cut & pasted an entire lengthy blog post to make a point for their readers, I suppose it's flattering and another way for you to spread the word. We can justify it by thinking of it as free advertising, right?

But, what if the exact same scenario occurs and your post lands on a site that has other writings completely at odds with your philosophies, and has advertising that turns your stomach? How can you take a different stance when the scenario is almost identical - someone scraped your writing and attributed the text at another location without permission?

Therein lies the rub, and it's what complicates the position of "fair use" as it's called by the U.S. Copyright Office. The deciding point is sometimes as simple as whether the quoter asked for permission first. Here's a portion of the Copyright Office guideline:

"The distinction between 'fair use' and infringement may be unclear and not easily defined. There is no specific number of words, lines, or notes that may safely be taken without permission. Acknowledging the source of the copyrighted material does not substitute for obtaining permission."

More information can be found by clicking here:

http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html

"The safest course is always to get permission from the copyright owner before using copyrighted material. "

Free promotion or not, it's a fine line. Each person can come to their own conclusions about what they can tolerate. I would prefer to ask if the quote is more than a few lines. It's just as easy to paste a few sentences and then offer a link back to the original website rather than "borrow" the entire essay.

In some cases, permission isn't possible to obtain, as in the case of the above quoted text from the Copyright Office, but my use here is short and clearly would fall under "fair use" guidelines. Copying an entire article of the New York Times is not fair use. They, in fact, state so on their website.

Then there is the added issue of copyright and Terms of Service within communities like Google and Yahoo. These organizations also limit the copying of text within their domains. So, know what their rules are and abide by them. Terms of Service links are quite easy to find at their websites. Read the fine print.

Whether you think copying is okay or not, whether you believe it's harmless, or that you're doing someone a favor, is not the issue here. The laws exist for a reason and even if we don't completely agree with them, it's part of living in a civilized society to comply a little for the greater good. Besides, it's just good manners to ask, and good manners are also part of belonging to a civilized world.

For an example of what does work, click here for comments about The Quickest Blog Book Tour Guide Ever posted on another blog. That I like!

Following laws, rules and other codes of conduct begins with us, not the other guy, and not just because we feel like it or because it's convenient. In the murky online realms, it might just be best to follow the letter of the law rather than bend the spirit of the law too much to suit our purposes. That way when someone really infringes on our copyrights to our great displeasure, we'll at least have a moral leg to stand on having taken a clear position right from the start.

How do you feel about having your blog posts copied to another site? What makes you feel good... or bad... about it? And why the difference?

The Challenge of Blogging Daily

The August Blogging Challengers are halfway through their contest of blogging every single day. Most of us are getting a bit tired of dreaming up exciting new posts, and are wondering whether we can keep this up after the month is over. The question is, do we have to?

A blog post per day is a good way to get some additional traffic to your blog, which is a particularly good idea before a blog book tour. But, it might not be necessary to keep your blog fresh quite this often as a normal practice. It's important to post at least twice a week, and three or four times is even better. But, unless you have a group blog and share the job with other people, it could become too much of a ... dare I say it?... drag to keep up the pace.

The point of this exercise is to develop a good habit over a period of thirty days. But, you can continue a very good habit three times a week, and that might work just as well. That's the number of posts that would work for me, especially since I like to pre-schedule several posts for the week on Monday.

What about the rest of you? Have you given any consideration to what your blogging schedule will be come September and for the remainder of the year? Do you have events or any special reasons that might make you increase your regular blogging? What are they? Give it some thought and tell us why and how you plan to continue your blogging practice when our contest is over.

How?

How to do I create a blog book tour? I get asked that question a lot.

First go to The Quickest Blog Book Tour Guide Ever and read it. That's a basic overview. Tackle each step listed, one by one, regularly, systematically, and long before your book release.

Then, start improving your blog through regular and well-written posts, a sitemeter, a bookmarking widget, and a blogroll that includes all the blogs you wish would host a book tour for you.

Now go follow some successful blog book tours. There are a few listed in the right-hand column here. As you get ideas, make a list of them and start thinking how you might apply them to your own book tour.

Join a group like Blog Book Tours at Yahoo! Groups and read through past messages. Look at the links at the group and learn from them. Now that you have some foundation about the whole concept, ask questions. Have people critique your blog for further improvements. Ask them for advice. What is it about the concept that confuses you most?

This is the only way to get comfortable with the idea, and believe me, the more you immerse yourself in the idea, the more comfortable it will seem too you.

When do you start this process? The year before your book release. At least three months and that's cutting it short. It's a lot more work than you think it is. Many hours are spent finding the right tour hosts and then planning each tour stop with a well-crafted interview, review, or other bit of entertainment that will engage your fans, and make them want to buy your book. Don't leave this to chance. Don't leave it until the last minute. You get one opportunity to make an impression. Make it a good one.

How many authors out there have had a blog book tour? Would you do it again?

Where?

When blog book tours first became popular, they popped from city to city online, rather than live. That convention soon disappeared when bloggers realized there was no necessity to be tied to physical locations.

Now we rarely know the location of a blog that is hosting a tour stop. Still there is a sense of place that can really add to a blog book tour stop if it's utilized well. One of my favorite examples is at Steve Prosapio's blog.

In a recent series of book reviews, he interviewed authors at real locations with photos to give us serious atmosphere. It was new and cool again. So if the book you're reviewing is very "place" oriented, think about creating this sort of ambience with words and pictures. A strong sense of location could make for a very interesting tour stop.

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When?

When should you blog? Well, the answer to that is as personal as when should you write? What's your best writing time? When does your life allow for writing space?

Your blogging is just a part of that. It's "real" writing, and you need to consciously schedule time for it. One day a week? Perhaps you'll opt to write three related weekly posts on Monday. Or daily? Maybe you'll post something on your blog after dinner, each and every day.

The important thing is that you make time for it and do it with regularity. This is part of what will make your blog interesting to readers, and easier for you to accomplish. All the habit tricks you use for other writing apply to your blogging as well. Trust me, it's easier with a plan and discipline.

It's all part of your commitment to succeeding as a writer. Read Teagan Oliver's comments about commitment here.

What?

What are your reasons for blogging? I don't mean the reasons everyone else is giving you, because those will never be compelling enough reasons to make you blog. So what if it's the latest thing? What reasons can you create that make you want to blog?

Have you considered how easy it really is? It's a piece of cake compared to learning HTML and creating a real website. Many people are foregoing a website completely as blogging becomes more sophisticated and at the same time easier for the user.

And what is blogging really? Just another place to publish your writing. Aren't we always on the look-out for more writing opportuntiies and places for our words to magically appear? There's a little button at the bottom of your post that reads, "publish" and that's exactly what it means. Your words are live when you hit that key, and the world can read what you have to say.

There's power in that, even on a blog. Have you thought of it in this way, rather than as a chore you have to do because someone else says so? Writing is work. Blogging is work. But both are part and parcel of being a published author. It's your life's work. Love it, because it's fun and you live to write.

Right?

Housekeeping

It's amazing how clutter builds up everywhere, and that includes on your blogs. Have you looked at your blog sidebars lately? Does any of that make sense to your readers? Two of my blogrolls right here are a mess. They don't make a bit of sense. I need to clean that up this week.

What about your blogrolls? Why do they exist? If you're planning a blog book tour, we suggest you have one blogroll for just your possible hosts. These are sites you've reviewed for potential, visit regularly, and post comments on so they get to know you. They're your social blogs, the getting-to-know-you pals who might give your book a boost down the road.

Do you do housekeeping in your virtual world on a regular basis? How often? It might not be a bad idea to consciously and objectively review your sites on a regular basis. Weekly wouldn't be too often with some of my e-Cleaning needs.

What's in a name?

Maybe a lot. One of our blogging challengers is writing a book out of her genre and is considering a pseudonym. Here's a fun meme to try out some new monikers:

1. Your real name: Daniella

2. Your Gangsta name:(first 3 letters of real name plus izzle)Danizzle

3. Your Detective name:(fave color and fave animal)Red Feline

4. Your Soap Opera name:(your middle name and street you live on) Mariah Love -- oooh, I feel a romance novel in my future!

5. Your Star Wars name:(the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first name) Greda

6. Your Superhero name:(your 2ND favorite color, and favorite drink) Blacktonic

7. Your Iraqi name:(2ND letter of your first name, 3rd letter of your last name, 1st letter of your middle name, 2ND letter of your moms maiden name, 3rd letter of your dads middle name, 1st letter of a siblings first name, and last letter of your moms middle name) Aemaida

8. Your Witness Protection name:(parents middle names) Marta Cliff

9. Your Goth name:(black, and the name of one of your pets) Black Portia

I'm tagging these three bloggers, in case you're ever asked to write something ... you know, different:) Like a children's story. Or something.

lj Sellers
Dana Fredsti
Karen Syed

Even if you're not tagged, do the exercise.

Thanks again to 50 Memes!

What's your rank?

That is to say, your amazon.com ranking? One way to measure the success of your blog book tour, is by checking your book's rating before, during, and after a tour. Comparing your rankings over the course of a month will give you a good indication of the tour success. Titlez.com is an easy way to get this information. Go try it out right now, and make a note of your ranking today. Then imagine what you would like your next book's rank to be!

The numbers game

Week One of the August Blogging Challenge has passed. It's now time for the participants to check their traffic statistics and compare them to a prior period when their posting was low -- just to confirm that the effort put into regular posting will really reap some results.

All bloggers should have a hit counter of some sort. I use Sitemeter which unfortunately had some issues during their move to a new server. So I don't know how accurate my statistics will be for the entire week. But, one of our challengers reports that he had 500 hits this week, a first in his blogging history.

This is exactly the kind of confirmation an author needs to validate the effort of regular blogging. You might not post daily all through the year, but raising your blog's profile and making it more "sticky" prior to a blog book tour is a good way to prepare for a successful online book promotion.

Make the numbers work for you. Most definitely learn to read the reports. Poke around at your counter's website and see what kind of reports you can generate, and then really look at them. They're really not all that confusing, and you might be in for some pleasant surprises.

Tomorrow, another report that every author needs to pay attention to, before, during, and after a blog book tour.

We are all linked

Linking is one of the most important ways to raise the profile of your blog. Social marketing maven, Tiffany Dow, explains it on her blog. She also talks about keywords, and I'll discuss that a bit more in a later post. For now, pay attention to her advice about growing your blog traffic in a slow and organic way through linking to other sites. And always, always link related sites of your own to each other. Linking is so important, within each post, in your signature, and in your sidebars. Create a neat and tidy linked package.

So Who am I?

People often ask me why I'm promoting blog book tours for free. Because I'm a kept woman and have nothing better to do? Wrong.

I'm a writer, and I'm fully aware that in today's publishing world, authors must offer up a promotion package with their manuscript submissions that puts the load of the selling squarely on their shoulders. In the traditional paradigm, that means they will likely travel. And I hate to travel.

Even worse, I hate the hotels, the airports, the food, not sleeping in my own bed, and that's just to name a few details I can get disgruntled about. I just flat-out don't like being away from home to work, and I don't like conferences either.

Fortunately for me, there is an oil crisis and travel will soon be curtailed for all of us. That means we all get to find better ways to promote. I knew early on that blogs and other virtual world vehicles would be my ride. So here I am, happily blazing my own new road.

That isn't to say, some traveling won't be part of my life as I promote in the future. But I think it's smart to consider new options. What about you?

Maybe a live book tour will be shorter, more concentrated in a region, and you might take fellow authors along and make it a group project. Even better, look for accomodations that are "green" and different from the usual hotel scenario. Why not try planning a more unusual trip for your next live book tour and enjoy the journey a little more while you're touring? Here's a link to the Green Vacation Hub that might get your imagination flowing. If not for you, then maybe for a character in your next book?

So Sorry?

Picked up on Twitter and so true:

I must delete some of my rss feeds, so I just now decided, any blog that apologizes for not posting, they're out. One gone already!

Don't apologize for not posting. If you must, sneak back in and back-date some posts so it looks like you've been paying attention to your blog all along. Or commit to daily posts for a month so that your blog looks fresh. Then collapse your archives so previous months' don't tattletale about former bad habits.

There are ways and there are ways.

Are you pinging?

Pinging is a way to give your blog a little boost by notifying an online service that you've updated your blog. This technique is much more proactive than waiting for the web crawlers at Google to notice you. I use Pingoat and once you're there, it's easy peasy. Just fill in the blanks, and click on all the services you want notified. If you click on the header in each category, all the items within will be checked. Don't do this too often, but once or twice a week after you update your blog is a good idea. This takes less than 60 seconds. Do it!

"Bee" a perfect blogger

Pro-blogger and blogging guru, Chris Garrett explains how to "bee" a perfect blogger. Here's good advice for authors preparing their own blogs for an impending blog book tour. Be sure to read the comments, too, because there are plenty of good insights and tips there.

Be sure to bookmark Chris' site and stop by often for the very best blogging help available. He's also on Twitter, and the above-mentioned article was picked up there. If you're not tweeting yet, I recommend it for a quick and easy way to give and get valuable information and links.

A Smashing Idea

Picked up at Twitter, Smashing Magazine offers up fifteen tools purported to make your blogging life easier. Do any of them work? I haven't tried them since the actual act of blogging isn't that difficult for me. But, if you're a virtual gadget lover, this might offer you some tools you'll like, and the article is definitely worth a read. Clear overviews and a clean wrap-up make it worth your while. This eMagazine is definitely worth exploring further.

Thanks, aboutbooks, for the heads-up.