Virtual Book Tour Companies Who Will Arrange Blog Book Tours

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Virtual Book Tour Companies Who Will Arrange Blog Book Tours

We all know that marketing your book can be tough. However, one strategy that works time and again is the virtual book tour. This is where you visit a number of blogs, doing interviews and generally promoting your book. The problem is that virtual book tours are a pain to set up. You not only need to write the blog posts, but also find decent blogs to host your virtual book tour. If arranging a virtual book tour is just too much hassle, here’s a list of virtual book tour companies that will give you a helping hand.

Virtual Book Tour Companies We Recommend

Bewitching Book Tours

Bewitching Book Tours specialize in paranormal, urban fantasy, and erotica/erotic romance author and book promotion. Prices start at $25 for a 1 week (5/7 stops) to $150 for a month long tour.

Blog Book Tours

Blog Book Tours specialize in children’s book authors and cozy mystery writers. They charge $75 per blog stop with a maximum of six stops or one week.

TLC Book Tours

TLC Book Tours specialize in bespoke blog book tours, designing tours to fit the book and it’s genre. They provide a 10 or 15 stop blog tour service. You have to email direct for prices.

Virtual Book Tours

Virtual Book Tours specialize in all genres. They charge $399 for their month long 20 stop tour, though prices do include additional services such as a page on their site and press release.

Mystical Book Blog Tours

Mystical Book Blog Tours seem to specialize in Dark Fantasy. They quote their prices as ranging from $25-$200, with tours ranging from 3 to 15 stops.

Liftuse Publicity Group

Liftuse specialize in ‘‘mommy’ blogs, writing blogs, Christian men/women blogs, ministry blogs, and more.’ They seem to offer a very full service and you will need to email for a quote.

Godess Fish Promotions

Godess Fish Promotions specialize in romance fiction (in all its sub-genres: fantasy, suspense, paranormal, historical, etc), other genre fiction and Young Adult / Middle Grade fiction. Prices range from $30 (5 stops) to $199 (20 stops).

If I have missed any please add them to the comments and I will add them to the main post.

Thanks to Stephany Simmons for the research.

Virtual Book Tour Companies Suggested By Readers

Virtual Book Tour Cafe

Sizzling PR

Enchanted Book Promotions

If you want to recommend a company, or are just looking for a shameless plug, feel free to add a virtual book tour company to the comments.

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By Gary Smailes - Co-founder at BubbleCow, helping writers to write, get published and sell more books. Google+ Twitter

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MK

Virtual Book Tour Cafe http://www.virtualbooktourcafe.com/
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Sizzling PR http://sizzlingpr.com/
http://www.thornthenovel.com Intisar Khanani

I recently toured with Enchanted Book Promotions and was very impressed with them. I highly recommend them! EBT has a variety of packages that will fit most budgets.

http://enchantedbooktours.eternalised.net/
EMK

http://cherrysblogtours.wordpress.com/
http://litfusegroup.com/ Litfuse

Thanks for the mention.
Gary Smailes
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Lisa Munley - TLC Book Tours

Thank you for the mention. I’m not entirely sure what “bespoke” might mean in relation to blog tours, but I’m happy that you’ve included us in this roundup. An indie publisher found us from this blog post today, so I’m very grateful! Thanks again.
al wilson

Hi…interesting site…pleased to learn about Virtual Book Tour services here and some VBT services players in the field. I have books to PR on line
Fire and Ice

Could you add my company to your list? Fire and Ice Book Tours http://fireandicebooktours.wordpress.com/

$20 for a five stop tour.
Elle

Air Book Tours. I worked with them and they were extremely helpful and friendly http://airbooktours.wix.com/air-tours
Closed the Cover

I offer virtual book tours through Closed the Cover. My pricing runs from $100 - $500 depending on the length of the tour but includes a custom page on our website, graphic art for the tour designed by a professional graphic artist, promotion on social media, reviews are posted on GoodReads and/or Amazon in addition to the sites of the tour hosts and each tour is assigned a unique Twitter #hashtag for conversations about the book.

http://www.closedthecover.com/virtual-tour.html
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Sylv

We at Dark Scream Book Tours are reasonable and have a number of tours live at the moment so you can see the tour page the author will get when signed up. 7 Day $49.95, Blog Blast $64.95, 30 day (BOGOF until 15th Feb) $79.95 and Go Pro $159.95, worth checking us out http://www.darkscreambooktours.com
House of Xxpression

Thank you for this post it was very helpful - any companies specialize in poetry book tours?
Gary Smailes

Not that I am aware - sorry.

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