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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!

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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
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