Skip to main content

Bloggers Who do Book Reviews

Image from freedigitalphotos.net by Digitalart

A while back, I promised that I would share the list of bloggers who joined in the virtual book tour for my debut novel, Mental Pause, and did either an author interview, book review, a combination review/interview and/or invited me to do a guest blog. If you're planning a blog tour, I encourage you to take a look at the blogs you're planning to pitch, subscribe to them, engage with them and, above all, read their guidelines for submitting queries for book reviews. Each one requires a slightly different process and not all of them will be interested in the genre you write, so don't just blast a list. Put some thought into personalizing each query and you'll have a much better return on time spent.

So here's my list... it keeps growing but this is as it stands now. I hope you enjoy exploring these blogs as much as I have:

Expat Info Desk - Feb. 28th - Author Interview

Adventures in Expatland, Review and Interview - March 8th
Linda is a long-time expat who just repatriated to the US and recently launched a book called The Emotionally Resilient Expat. 

Author Interviews with Jo Parfitt - March 8th
Jo is a author, publisher (she published my book @Home in Dubai), writer, speaker and writers' mentor. She blogs about the writing process and getting published. 

 Arabian Tales & Other Amazing Adventures - Review and Interview - March 8th

Book Readers Heaven - Review and Interview - March 8th

Ravenous Reader - Review - March 8th

Voracious Reader - Review March 8th

Padmini B. Sankar's Blogs - Review March 10th

Have You Heard My Book Review - Meet the author March 8th 

Expat Bookshop - Guest Post, The Highs and Lows of Switching Genres - March 11th

It’s not All Gravy - Guest Post, One Sweaty Night Results in Debut Novel - March 13th 

Have you Heard My Book Review - Review March 14th 

Morgen Bailey's Writing Blog - Author Spotlight - March 14th

The Bookshelf Muse - Guest Post, Switching Genres - Brilliance or Pure Folly - March 18th

Literary R&R - Review - March 19th

Morgen Bailey's Writing Blog - Guest Post - Advice on Switching Genres

The Alliterative Allomorph's Artist Unleashed, Guest post, Inspiration Can Come From the Strangest Places

Jeri WB's What Do I Know? - Author interview - May 17

 Expat Focus - Expat Books -Author interview - May 17

 I Am, Indeed - Review - August 3
These are all great blogs and I encourage you to follow and visit regularly. Happy reading!

Labels:

Comments

Carole said…
Hi Anne,

Expat authors are welcome to contact me if they would like to be interviewed and featured on our 'Expat Books' page
http://www.expatfocus.com/expat-books

Hope this helps.

Carole
20 September 2013 at 05:45
Anne Louise O'Connell said…
Excellent! Thanks Carole :) I forgot I did that one. Thanks for the reminder... I'll add that link now!
20 September 2013 at 07:00
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Guest Blog - Mari Barnes, Author of My Peace Place

I'm very pleased to host Mari Barnes today as part of her virtual book tour for her book, My Peace Place. Mari is participating in D'Vorah Lansky's Book Marketing Boot Camp , which is where we 'met'. Take it away Mari! Eye on the Why I read this recent post from a discouraged new author: My friends don't seem very excited about my new book. Does no one read anymore? I've sold 4 whole copies so far. That did more than ring a bell—it set a gong clanging in my mind. I remember those days too well. Some friends and family weren’t even reading gift copies of my book, much less actually spending money to support me. It created a hollow feeling unlike anything I can adequately describe but despair, disappointment and betrayal all come close. How could they not understand how important this is to me? Haven’t I bought every Girl Scout cookie--supported every sport, church and school fundraiser? When little Cindy Lou was selling crocheted key rings, who boug...
11 comments
Read more

New Year... New Mission - Self Publish Mental Pause!

This image courtesy of suphakit73 at freedigitalphotos.net What a wonderful day yesterday with family gathered together reminiscing about 2012 and talking about what's in store for 2013.  The next generation of my family are just the type of young adults who are going to change the world!  Really... I'm not biased... they're brilliant!  Okay, maybe just a little but I'm allowed to be a proud auntie, especially since I don't have children of my own. Anyway... During the past year, I had some great projects to work on, including assisting in the launch of the corporate division of 'embers of the world' as well as working with the Dubai office of DBM as they merged with Lee Hecht Harrison (as of January they will be LHH Gulf ). I also started on my journey to find an agent for my for my first novel, Mental Pause and it's been a year now.  I've had a little interest, many asking for the first few chapters and one NY agent who actually asked to ...
10 comments
Read more

Author Interview: Jack Scott, Turkey Street and Perking the Pansies

Jack Scott, author and publisher, Springtime Books This week I'm so thrilled to welcome Jack Scott to Writing...Just Because to share his author journey and a few words of advice. Jack is the author of   Turkey Street - Jack and Liam move to Bodrum , t he sequel to the best-selling memoir Perking the Pansies - Jack and Liam move to Turkey . Here's a little taster of Turkey Street... Six months into their Turkish affair, Jack and Liam, a gay couple from London, took lodgings in the oldest ward of Bodrum Town. If they wanted to shy away from the curtain-twitchers, they couldn’t have chosen a worse position. Their terrace overlooked Turkey Street like the balcony of Buckingham Palace and the middle-aged infidels stuck out like a couple of drunks at a temperance meeting. Against all the odds, the boys from the Smoke were welcomed into the fold by a feisty mix of eccentric locals and a select group of trailblazing expats, irresistible ladies with racy pasts and pluck...
6 comments
Read more