Virtual Book Tour
$99
Take your book on tour without the travel.
Your Virtual Book Tour gives your book guaranteed exposure through two established publishing blogs, promotion to more than 60,000 combined followers on Facebook and X, and professional marketing materials you can continue using to pursue additional opportunities on your own.
Build awareness during your tour, then keep the momentum going with professional promotional materials you can use for your own continued outreach.
Take Your Book on Tour Without Leaving Home
Skip the travel and take your book directly to online audiences. Your Virtual Book Tour combines two guaranteed publishing blog features, social media promotion, and professional marketing materials you can continue using after the initial tour.
One Tour. Multiple Ways to Be Discovered.
Your book is featured through established publishing blogs and social media channels, while your Marketing ToolKit gives you resources to continue promoting your book on your own.
Give Your Book Its Own Online Spotlight
Your tour includes two dedicated publishing blog features designed to introduce you and your book to online audiences.
Your Author Spotlight on Self-Publishing News introduces readers to you, your book, and the story behind your work.
Visit Self-Publishing NewsYour Story Showcase on Self-Publishing Advisor provides another dedicated online feature for your book and its story.
Visit Self-Publishing AdvisorAs newer articles are published, your features move through each blog's chronological feed, but the individual article pages remain available online.
Reach More Than 60,000 Combined Social Followers
Your Virtual Book Tour is also promoted through our Facebook and X channels, extending your book's exposure beyond the two publishing blog features and introducing the tour to additional online audiences.
Keep Promoting After the Tour
Your tour also gives you professionally prepared promotional materials you can continue using to introduce your book to appropriate contacts and pursue additional opportunities on your own.
Keep Track of Online Mentions
We'll help you keep track of online mentions of your book so you can identify additional exposure generated during your promotional efforts.
“The Virtual Book Tour has really helped—putting my book out there on other readers' blogs increases exposure. I've already sent my second novel to Outskirts Press!”
Kelli Sue Landon, Outskirts Press author
Build Exposure Without Promising a Particular Result
Your Virtual Book Tour guarantees the promotional activities included with the service, including your two publishing blog features and social media promotion. Specific views, engagement, additional mentions, inquiries, reviews, or book sales cannot be guaranteed.
Ready to Take Your Book on Tour?
Put your book in front of publishing audiences and social media followers, then keep promoting with professional materials you can continue using. Click Add to Cart to launch your Virtual Book Tour.
Virtual Book Tour FAQ
Your Virtual Book Tour includes two guaranteed publishing blog features: an Author Spotlight on Self-Publishing News and a Story Showcase on Self-Publishing Advisor. Your tour also includes promotion through our Facebook and X channels to more than 60,000 combined followers, professional marketing materials you can continue using for your own outreach, and complimentary digital clipping to help identify online mentions of your book.
Every Virtual Book Tour includes an Author Spotlight on SelfPublishingNews.com and a Story Showcase on SelfPublishingAdvisor.com. These are dedicated online features about you and your book.
Your Author Spotlight and Story Showcase are published as individual articles. As newer content is published, your features will naturally move through each blog's chronological feed, but the individual article pages remain available online.
Your Virtual Book Tour receives additional promotion through our Facebook and X channels, which reach more than 60,000 combined followers. This social promotion helps extend the reach of your tour beyond the two guaranteed publishing blog features.
Your Virtual Book Tour includes a professionally prepared cover letter and sales sheet. These materials are yours to continue using after your initial tour when pursuing appropriate promotional opportunities on your own.
Think of these materials as tools for continuing your own book promotion. You can personalize your cover letter when introducing yourself and your book to appropriate contacts, and use your sales sheet to provide a professional overview of your book.
Depending on your book, potential outreach may include bloggers, reviewers, podcasts, bookstores, libraries, associations, organizations, event organizers, and other contacts whose audiences are a good fit for your subject or genre.
Our digital clipping service helps identify online mentions of your book so you can see additional exposure that may result from your promotional efforts. It supplements the guaranteed features included with your Virtual Book Tour.
Your Virtual Book Tour guarantees the promotional activities specifically included with the service, including your two publishing blog features and social media promotion. Additional online mentions, reviews, engagement, inquiries, or book sales depend on audience response and cannot be guaranteed.