Maureen Johnson on author blog tours.

From her blog:

I don’t really want to spam the world with my stories of me and my book. A few little things here and there, sure. If I have specific things to say. But I don’t want to just shout the same thing in various places. That makes me bored and those corners of the internet boring and I don’t want to do it.

OH MY GOD, YES.

THANK YOU.

PS. Not you specifically, MJ, but blog tours in general.

Comments

[Elizabeth Fama]

Maureen also brings up the point of how much writing these tours actually involve, and how those thousands of words could be going toward another novel instead. I wonder what she thinks of the current trend toward offering free e-books and online fiction (often short stories that are prequels to the novel)? Unless you're an established author, I question how many people read these things, and how well they help the marketing effort, and yet like book trailers (another questionably useful marketing tool) they seem to be becoming de rigueur.

[Adam @ Hitting On Girls]

I tend to glaze over blog tour posts for the very reason she points out: they get repetitive and boring.

Elizabeth, I don't think anyone reads them. I wasn't even aware of a few books that had them. You have to visit the author's website to even know about them. I know Veronica Roth did it for Insurgent, but why can't the author include it in their book?

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