How do I become a book tour host?

[Felicia Chien]

Hello there. Just curious if anyone could help me about becoming a book tour host? I've only been blogging for a month, but am a dedicated blogger. I review mostly young adult and paranormal young adult novels. Any sites that I should look at to help me with this situation?

 

Thanks a bunch,

~Felicia. 

[Evangeline Han]

There are a number of book tours available. You can Google for them (that's what I did).

Nurture Your Books, First Wild Card Tours, and TLC Tours are just a few I can think of right now.

 

--Evangeline

http://sugarpeach.wordpress.com/

[Bobbie Crawford-McCoy (NURTURE)]

You can apply for one of our Nurture Tour Hosting Team positions, Felicia. You can find out more about becoming one of our tour hosts and about the fantastic books on tour with NURTURE at: http://nurtureyourbooks.com/vbtblog/?page_id=10.

Thanks so much for mentioning Nurture Your BOOKS and Nurture Book Tours, Evangeline! :-)

[Hannah @ Paperback Treasures]

Lots of YA book tours are organized by The Teen Book Scene - those are always fun. They usually only take bloggers who've been blogging for three months or more, but I guess you could give it a try or keep it in mind for later.

 

Hannah @ Paperback Treasures

[jdfield]

Hey, sorry for being really hopeless, but what's a book tour...?

[Felicia Chien]

A BookTour is a set of tools i.e., interviews, reviews, promoting their books through your site, helping authors to promote their books and readers to see their favorite author in person. It gives you a chance to gain some great ARCs as well as new followers for your site.

[jdfield]

Thanks Felicia. I can see there's a lot to learn about all this...

[Evangeline Han]

Another thing... not all book tours involves ARCs. In fact, if you're going under a PR company managing book tours, you most likely won't be receiving ARCs.

[Isiah Hurts]

I'm looking for a book tour host if you  are interested. Email my pr agent at [e-mail]

[Bonnie]

There is also a group on bookblogs for TWCS Publishing House where they post thier upcoming blog tours:

 

http://bookblogs.ning.com/group/twcsphblogtours

[The Writer's Coffee Shop]

Thanks Bonnie for helping spread the word.

[The Writer's Coffee Shop]

Several publishers, including The Writer's Coffee Shop, have groups on Book Blogs where we announce upcoming blog tours. Our group is TWCS PH Blog Tours.

[Christine Amsden]

As an author, the way I have found sites to host my tour was by first finding those interested in reviewing my book. Of those who have enjoyed the book, many were interested in doing interviews, giveaways, or guest posts as well. I like doing it that way because if the blogger liked my book and is excited about that, they will showcase it better than if they don't like it, or never read it.

 

If you like science fiction, you're welcome to check out my book: http://christineamsden.com/wordpress/

 

I'll be touring the internet for at least the next couple of months.