Blog Book Tour Stops This Week & Special Kindle & Smashwords Price For Tour

The Blog Book Tour Continues For Forever Young: Blessing or Curse
Blog Book Tour Special at Amazon on Kindle & Smashwords - Now $1.99 (Other venues will take longer for the new amount to kick in) 

See http://morgansbooklinks.blogspot.com/ for all venues

If you missed the beginning of my continuing Blog Book Tour for Forever Young: Blessing or Curse, you can find all the permalinks, plus the entire schedule to date in the righthand column.

Here are some immediate stops:


FRIDAY, January 20, 2012

http://bobsanchez1.blogspot.com/
Permalink: http://bobsanchez1.blogspot.com/2012/01/am-i-old-yet.html
Am I old yet?

SUNDAY, January 22, 2012
http://its-not-all-gravy.blogspot.com/
Permalink: http://its-not-all-gravy.blogspot.com/2012/01/book-review-forever-young-blessing-or.html
Review by Maryann Miller

MONDAY, January 23, 2012
http://its-not-all-gravy.blogspot.com/
Permalink: http://its-not-all-gravy.blogspot.com/2012/01/monday-morning-musings_23.html
Intro by Maryann Miller


WEDNESDAY, January 25, 2012
http://its-not-all-gravy.blogspot.com/
Permalink: http://its-not-all-gravy.blogspot.com/2012/01/wednesdays-guest-morgan-mandel.html
Topic: Excerpt & Topic: Fountain of Youth Myth

FRIDAY, January 27, 2012
http://candidcanine.blogspot.com/
Permalink: http://candidcanine.blogspot.com/2012/01/welcome-morgan-mandel-author-of-forever.html
Interview, including a shocking happening, Plus an excerpt to show how it was included in the book

More Blog Stops

Current Blog Book Tour Stops for Forever Young: Blessing or Curse:

My Blog Book Tour for Forever Young: Blessing or Curse is moving right along.
This is the paranormal romantic thriller about a widow who takes a pill to turn her from 55 to 24, but may not live to regret it.

On Kindle and in Print, Available anywhere else you can imagine. Complete list of buylinks is at http://morganmandel.blogspot.com/



Monday, February 6, 2012
Austin S. Camacho's blog - A Writer's Life
http://ascamacho.blogspot.com/
Permalink: http://ascamacho.blogspot.com/2012_02_01_archive.html#7815048673197469077
Topic: How Long Did it Take to Write This Book

Thursday, February 9, 2012
Helen Ginger Hosting at The Blood-Red  Pencil
http://bloodredpencil.blogspot.com/
Permalink: http://bloodredpencil.blogspot.com/2012/02/ageless-love.html
Topic: My Editor, Helen Ginger,  Interviews Me

Check sidebar for permalinks to past posts of interest.

The Last Few Blog Book Tour Stops

My Blog Book Tour for Forever Young: Blessing or Curse is winding down. Since this is the week for Valentine's Day, you still have time to get the Valentine's Special, lasting through Saturday, Feb. 17, 2012, where this book on Kindle is sale priced at only 99 cents.
Here's the link for the deal: http://amzn.com/B006MO28CQ

The last two stops are on:
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Friday, February 24, 2012
Details below.

Wednesday, February 15, 2012
The Fabulousness - http://lesleatash.com/
Permalink: http://lesleatash.com/post/17655104984/writer-wednesday-welcomes-morgan-mandel
Topic: Are Your Friends the Same Age as You?

Friday, February 24, 2012
As Paula Martin's Guest on Heroines With Hearts
http://heroineswithhearts.blogspot.com/
Permalink: #ff @MorganMandel
http://heroineswithhearts.blogspot.com/2012/02/todays-friday-friend-morgan-mandel.html
Topic: Would You Take an Experimental Medicine?

To Pay or Not to Pay For a Blog Book Tour

Would you pay good money for a blog book tour?

If you don't mind spending time to research popular blogs to make sure they get enough hits and are the right ones to promote your book, you don't mind contacting their owners and asking if they'll host you, you don't mind doing all the advertising yourself, have a very tight budget, then maybe a do-it-yourself blog tour is for you.

Then again, if you don't have the time or the patience to do the research, don't like making direct contact with hosts, don't believe your own advertising is enough, have enough money saved up for such a promotion, then maybe you'd prefer to leave it in the hands of a professional.

Either way you choose, you'll have lots of work ahead of you getting topics and blogs ready beforehand. During the tour, to make the most of your opportunity, you should be commenting on your hosts' blogs to establish your presence, plus tweeting and sending emails to Facebook and your egroups, and other spots.

With my recently completed Killer Career Blog Book Tour, I practiced a hands-on approach, but I had a great advantage. I not only belonged to the blogbooktour egroup run by Dani Greer, but also the pumpupyourblog egroup, run by Dorothy Thompson - The first being an immensely informative hands-on, do-it-yourself group, the other a group comprised mainly of hosts and guests of Pump Up Your Book Promotion Virtual Book Tours. I've made wonderful friends in each group, love them both, and respect their methods. Although I didn't pay for my own tour and arranged it all myself, many times I've served as a host for Dorothy's tours and enjoy doing so.

What about you? Do you prefer to pay for a blog book tour and leave the driving to people like Dorothy at http://virtualbooktours.wordpress.com/? Or are you a do-it-yourselfer?

What are your reasons? Please share with us.

WINNERS OF BLOG BOOK TOUR CONTEST

I promised two winners for my blog book tour contest. I'm glad to announce two worthy bloggers/authors.

They are - ladies first - Jane Kennedy Sutton from Jane's Ride - She wins the cap with the Killer Career cover art !!!

And the guy is - Stephen Tremp of Breakthrough Blogs for the Aspiring Author - He gets the manly Killer Career tee shirt (no cover art) !!!

Check out their blogs, if you get a chance. They are worth seeing. They both do a great job.

They will receive their prizes after I return from my extended Labor Day vacation starting Thursday and ending the following Tuesday.

I will attempt to get my blogs out those days, but who knows what may happen in the North Woods.

Day Four of Self-Pub Series - Choosing a Printing House and Getting Familiar With It

Hi Gang,
Today's topic at my blog book tour series on The Blood-Red Pencil is about Choosing a printing house and getting familiar with it.

Come on over and add your two cents. You may have takes on other printing houses than mine. You may agree or disagree with what I say. Please chime in.

Thanks,
Morgan

Killer Career Blog Book Tour Recap, Permalinks, Schedule of Self-Pub Posts at Blood-Red Pencil

First,
You'll find the permalinks for all of my tour stops in a post below this one. Later, it will also be available through a click on the left column of this blogspot. I'm offering them in case you missed one, or if you'd just like to come back and check one for reference.

To let you know what I've learned from my Killer Career Blog Book Tour so far -

Everyone said it would be tiring. I usually blog here everyday, so I didn't think blogging somewhere else would make much difference. I was wrong. It did. For one thing, I wanted the posts to be super-good, instructive, entertaining, with as few mistakes as possible. Because of that, it took longer to compose them.

I not only owed my best efforts to my hosts, but also to myself. I spent lots of time getting Killer Career together just right and I wanted my posts to reflect that fact.

Getting the posts ready wasn't enough. Before I left for work, I spread the word to Twitter, Facebook, Live Journal, MySpace and Hi5. On the train, I spread more word to my e-groups, and believe me, I belong to many. I also plugged the tour at Book Place, my ning network. With Twitter once wasn't enough. During the day, I'd quickly do a tweet about the blog when I could.

After I'd spread the word, I checked the blog-of-the-day numerous times on my work breaks and on the train going home and at home so I could answer comments. I'll carry on in the same manner next week for the rest of my tour at The Blood-Red Pencil.

Another thing - I didn't realize my hosts would be so generous. My blog remained up for days on many of the blogspots, which meant extra exposure. For that I'm extremely grateful. I'll keep checking for comments on all the stops off and on in case more appear.

And now, I'm turning the spotlight on my next tour stop of the tour, one that will last seven days. I've got to say The Blood-Red is a special blog. It's comprised mainly of editors who generously dispense wonderful writing tips. I'm honored to belong to such a group.

Here's the Schedule for what I'm calling Morgan Mandel's Basic Guide to Self-Publishing, at
The Blood-Red Pencil :

Monday, August 24 - Why Self-Publish
Tuesday, August 25 - How to Get Started - Legalities, Technicalities, References
Wednesday, August 26 - Why Use an Editor
Thursday, August 27 - Choosing a Printing House & Getting Familiar With It
Friday, August 28 - Setting Up Cover Art & Logo
Saturday, August 29 - Promo
Sunday - August 30 - Downloading, Proof, Acceptance, Publication

Thanks. I hope you continue on for the rest of the tour!
Morgan Mandel

8th Killer Career Blog Book Tour Stop at Murder by 4

Having trouble moving your plot forward? Try a secondary character -
See how at my 8th tour stop today at:

http://murderby4.blogspot.com/2009/08/need-to-move-plot-forward-consider.html

If you missed it, I showed ways to add description to novel yesterday at Helen Ginger's blogspot. Here's the link:
http://straightfromhel.blogspot.com/2009/08/adding-description-to-your-novel.html

Tomorrow's a recap and the schedule for my upcoming week's posts at http://bloodredpencil.blogspot.com where the week will be devoted to
self-publishing.

Thanks,
Morgan

Blog Book Tour - Stop Seven at Straight From Hel

Today my Lucky Seven Stop on my Killer Career Blog Book Tour takes me to my wonderful editor, Helen Ginger's blogspot, http://straightfromhel.blogspot.com.

Come on over and learn some ways to add description to your novel.

If you missed it, yesterday an excerpt from the 12th chapter of Killer Career appeared at L. Diane Wolfe's blogspot. Here's the permalink which will take you straight to the excerpt post:
http://circleoffriendsbooks.blogspot.com/2009/08/thursday-excerpt-killer-career.html

Thanks, Morgan

Blog Book Tour - Stop Six at Spunk on a Stick

I'm off today to Spunk on a Stick around 7am. It's the blogspot owned by the perky and talented L. Diane Wolfe, at http://www.circleoffriendsbooks.blogspot.com/ . You'll find an excerpt there from Killer Career. I hope you like it! You'll also find information on her Circle of Friends series of books. My host is a busy gal!

Yesterday, Lillie Ammann set up a beautiful spot for my fourth stop. Unfortunately, her server played tricks for some hours in the afternoon. If any of you missed the interview, you can find it at http://www.lillieammann.com/blog . She asked some great questions. It's worth checking out.

Thanks,
Morgan

Stop 5 of Killer Career Blog Book Tour - Lillie Ammann's Blog

Today, my 5th stop is over at Lillie Ammann's A Writer's Words, an Editor's Eye at
http://www.lillieammann.com/blog . I invite you to come on over. She posed some
great questions, plus her setup over there is beautiful.

Thanks,
Morgan

BLOG BOOK TOUR 3RD STOP AT THE LITTLE BLOG OF MURDER

Today, Monday, my Killer Career Blog Book Tour stops at http://www.thelittleblogofmurder.com, where my host is Jeff Marks.

The topic is Libraries - Do They Help or Hinder Sales?

Come on over, see what I have to say, and offer your opinion.

My prior two stops are also still on display by my hosts, if you'd care to check them out -
http://www.marywelk.com/ - Villains and Heroes - Gotta Love 'Em - host Mary Welk

http://booklandheights.blogspot.com/ - Interview, plus a later post coming - How I Named My Baby - host Mary Cunningham

Thanks, everyone


PS Remember the prizes - Comment there and let me know here before or after with your email address here and you could win - gray tee shirt for a guy without the cover art on it, cap or tote bag for a girl with the cover art on it.

PPS Tuesday, tomorrow's stop, is at Unbound, http://hagelrat.blogspot.com where Hagelrat will interview me.

BLOG BOOK TOUR RESUMES, PLUS BOOK LAUNCH PARTY TODAY

It's a busy time over here. Saturday marks the official release date for Killer Career.

Sunday, the Killer Career Blog Book Tour continues onto its second stop at http://booklandheights.blogspot.com If you miss the tour stop on Sunday, you can catch up to it on Monday, as Mary Cunningham, my host, has promised to leave it up for the week. Each day until the end of the month I'll be posting reminders here about other tour stops.

Remember, if you comment at a tour stop, mention it here with your email address, you'll be eligible to win a prize - Grey tee shirt for the guys without the cover art, Killer Career cap or tote bag for the ladies with the cover art.

Also on Sunday is the Killer Career Book Launch Party. If you're anywhere near Arlington Heights between 1-4pm, you're invited to stop in at the Arlington Heights Historical Museum, 110 West Fremont, 1st floor, Arlington Room, Arlington Heights, IL (Across from the library)

Light Refreshments, Raffle, and http://www.amazon.com/KILLER-CAREER-Morgan-Mandel/dp/0981991602/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1250252850&sr=8-1'>Killer Career autographing happening. I'll also have copies of Two Wrongs and Girl of My Dreams available for anyone who missed the first time around.

Hope to see you online and/or in person today.

THE BRIEFS AND A BRIEF RESPITE

The Briefs - I thought the DH was kidding when he mentioned my Killer Career Book Launch Party announcement had made it to The Briefs on front page of the Neighbor Section of the Daily Herald Newspaper. I'd been in such a hurry this morning, I hadn't checked the paper thoroughly. It was a nice surprise.

Also, it's a reminder to everyone to take advantage of free publicity. How this got in was by my submitting the information over the Internet one night. Actually, I hit a button before putting my name in, so I didn't think it would appear. I'm happy it made it anyway.

A Brief Respite - I've got only a few days rest before the next stop on my blog book tour which will happen on August 16 at http://booklandheights.blogspot.com.
That will be a fun filled day for me, since my book launch party is also that day.

Hope to see some of you at both spots.

BLOG BOOK TOUR FOR KILLER CAREER- FIRST STOP

This is the first day of my Blog Book Tour. The first stop is up at
http://www.marywelk.com/.

I'd appreciate it if you'd hop on over to Mark Welk's blogspot, Cicero's Children, and read about Villains and Heroes - Gotta Love 'Em.

Don't forgot, to be eligible for a prize after the entire tour is over at the end of the month, you'll need to leave a comment here with your email address, plus a comment at one of the blogspots of the tour.

Next stop after today is on August 16 at http://booklandheights.blogspot.com.


Thanks to everyone who comes with me on my tour.

Prizes for Blog Book Tour

I didn't mention I do have prizes to give away, one for the ladies, one for the guys. The guy prize is a gray tee shirt. It says Killer Career by Morgan Mandel, and my website on it, but it does not have the photo of the heroine, since that might not seem masculine to some.

I've also got a choice of a tote bag or a white cap, which have the cover art from the book on them. This can be a ladies choice, unless a guy winner wants it for his girl.

Anyway, to be eligible for the drawing what you need to do is comment on one or more stops of the tour. There's more. Either before or after doing so, stop here and say you will or have already commented at the blog stop. Leave your email address with your name and whatever else you usually leave for the signature here. Don't send the entries there, but by all means make sure you comment on one or more stops to be eligible.

I'll do a drawing at the end from those who said they commented and did. I'll have the DH or Rascal pick the winner.

No cheating - I'm obsessive about checking for comments on my blogs, so I'll know if you really weren't there. (g)

You've probably figured out this is my not-so-devious way of getting you to comment here as well during the tour.

Hosts are eligible if they comment on a different stop than their own and mention it here, plus include their email addresses. This pertains to the entire tour, which also includes the week at The Blood Red Pencil.


Morgan Mandel
http://www.morganmandel.com
KILLER CAREER IS HERE!

Good Luck to everyone! FIRST STOP IS AUG 12 AT:
Cicero's Children - http://www.marywelk.com
Host: Mary Welk

Bios

I got my bio ready for the Blog Book Tour for Killer Career and sent it off to Mary Welk for my first stop at her blog on August 12. Afterwards, I wondered, should I use the same bio at all the stops?

Have you gone on a tour yet? What did you do? If you haven't gone on one, what would you do? Use the same one each time, or think up a new one?