Patricia Harrelson

A year or so ago, when I was starting to think about how to promote my book once it was published, I stumbled upon the concept of blog tours. Rather than take one’s book on the road to various venues, the idea is to get it reviewed and or get yourself interviewed on a bunch of blogs. It saves lots of money and works well with the idea of viral promotion, that is passing the word about your book from friend to friend. This method of promotion is supposed to be highly successful.

To that end, I started asking friends if they would be willing to read my book, Between Two Women, and do a post about it or me. Several noteworthy friends responded with a YES! Links to their posts follow.

But first, I’d like to say that being interviewed is a very powerful self-reflective exercise. Each of these writers/bloggers asked different kinds of questions. I think the 3 interviews probe into unique aspects of my process and intention. As such, they opened my Editeyes, demanding that I look at the work in new ways. I hope you will visit these blogs and then come back and comment here. The circular dialogue will certainly benefit all of us.

Keiti Pierce who is currently a student of the Gothic novel at Stirling University in Scotland did a four part interview on Misplaced Misfit.

Gayle Brandeis who wrote Self Storage interviewed me on her blog Fruitflesh.

Kate Evan, interviewed me on Being and Writing. Her book For the May Queen was just published, and I will be interviewing Kate here next week about the book and her approach to writing.

Finally, I’m excited to announce that I’ll be interviewed on Women-Stirred Radio on Thursday Oct. 9 at 4pm EST. You can stream it

live at www.wgdr.org by clicking on the “Listen Live” link. If you are in California, you need to check in at 1pm.

Thanks to each of these women writers for spreading a net of support for this writer in the sometimes overwhelming task of promoting a book.