100 things, writing, #20, blog hopping

[jana_denardo]

100 things #20, blog hopping.

This has become a very popular way for authors to help each other promote their talent and their current publications. It seems to be far more popular on blogger/blogspot than here, unfortunately and every time I try to play along I find it's not always possible. I can pretty much only respond if they have name/url options on their blogs. For some reason the livejournal option almost always ends up with a bad url error. Ah well.

But it IS a cool idea. I've done several and I would like to have one here on my journal someday. With the schedule I have in the next few months I'm not sure it will be possible until 2013 but still, I would like to.

I've just joined another one (and hope I can actually see it through, points to that schedule). I've added a few friends to both my lj and to twitter as a result of these. I have no real way of knowing if it's resulted in any sales but it helps to build your platform and the publishers today are all about that. I've joined a new one that really fits my interests well. It's being hosted by Paranormal Freebies which is a pretty cool blog to start with.

I think almost every one of my stories with Dreamspinner press have been paranormal with the exception of Ghost of Jupiter which is SF. The novella that came out this week is definitely historical paranormal so I'm really looking forward to this bloghop.

Comments

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

It's the same thing that goes by the name Blog Tours, isn't it? I've been thinking of trying something like that myself, for my upcoming short story collection, but don't really know much about how it works.

[jana-denardo.livejournal.com]

it's probably the same thing. You can check out the link to paranormal freebies and have a look at how they set theirs up

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

I shall certainly do so, thanks.

[jana-denardo.livejournal.com]

I'm filling out a questionaire for another blog hop. In this one they're asking which character you'd have a fling with and the questions are geared to why. Naturall you provide the buy link and cover and every day someone new goes up at that blog. It's another way of doing it. Hopefully I'll get a spot since it seems fun.

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

It does! I've learned that a blog hop is pretty similar to a blog tour, and that no two bloggers do them the same way.

[jana-denardo.livejournal.com]

that's been my experience