Book Tour

Halloween horror book signing at Dymocks Southland

July 30, 2010
By alan

Here’s a little something I’m quite excited about. On October 31st, which as you all know is Halloween, there’s going to be a little horror-fest at Dymocks Southland bookstore. A bunch of us dark writer folk are going to be doing a group book signing there in celebration of all things… well, dark. It’s...
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Baggage anthology from Eneit Press

June 17, 2010
By alan
Baggage anthology from Eneit Press

Baggage is a new anthology of short stories, published by Eneit Press and edited by Gillian Polack. You may remember Gillian being mentioned on here before – she was kind enough to officiate for me at the book launch of MageSign late last year. This anthology that she’s put together is a pretty awesome...
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Kate Forsyth & Belinda Murrell blog book tour

May 13, 2010
By alan
Kate Forsyth & Belinda Murrell blog book tour

You may remember a little while ago that I hosted a day of Kate Forsyth’s blog book tour for The Puzzle Ring. Well, Kate is far from the only talented writer in the family. Her sister, Belinda Murrell, is also a talented and prolific writer in her own right. Seriously, these two are enough...
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Neil Gaiman and the $45,000 appearance fee

May 12, 2010
By alan

My friend Michael made me aware of this news over at Boing Boing. It’s since caused a fair stir, with opinions all over the interwebz. So I thought, what kind of writer or blogger am I if I don’t weigh in too? Basically there’s been outrage that Neil Gaiman would charge $45,000 for an...
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Interview with Kate Forsyth

February 15, 2010
By alan
Interview with Kate Forsyth

Kate Forsyth’s new young adult fantasy novel, The Puzzle Ring, is a story rich in faerie lore, set in the wilds of Scotland. You can read my review of the book here. As part of her blog tour, I talked to Kate about the book, the process of writing it and her hopes for...
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Guest post – Write Lofty and Carry a Big Chisel by Pat Bertram

October 28, 2009
By alan
Guest post – Write Lofty and Carry a Big Chisel by Pat Bertram

A while ago when I did my blog book tour for RealmShift and MageSign one of the people kind enough to host me was Pat Bertram. She hosted the interview with Isiah, the protagonist from the books. I’m very pleased now to return the favour and host a guest post from Pat as she...
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Blog book tour article

August 24, 2009
By alan

For those of you interested, Pat Bertram asked me if I would write up an article about my recent blog book tour for her Book Marketing Floozy website. So if you’re thinking about doing something similar to promote your own writing, this article pretty much gives you all you need to know to get...
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The missing day from the blog book tour

August 9, 2009
By alan

Ruthie over at Ruthie’s Book Reviews has got her internet connection back and posted the review of MageSign that was supposed to be part of the blog book tour. You can read the review here. There’s also a chance to get a free ebook copy of MageSign by leaving a comment on the review...
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Blog book tour – the wrap, with stats

August 2, 2009
By alan

Right, so this will be my last post on the blog book tour. I’m sure most of you are sick of reading about it by now. However, quite a few people have asked me to write up how it went, what kind of results I saw from it and so on, so this last...
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Blog book tour Day 10 – The End (for now…)

July 28, 2009
By alan

We’ve reached Day 10 of the blog book tour. It’s been a lot of fun! I noticed this today over at Ruthie’s blog: Sorry for the interruption I just wanted ot let you all know that I am still here, but due to having my computer down for the next two weeks – I...
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