A Very Merry Christmas from the MWC Moderators!

With the aid of the excellent Office Max Elf Yourself website, I created this seasonal video featuring five of the moderators from my forum at www.mywriterscircle.com.

I hope you enjoy it. Be sure to have the speakers up when you play it!

As always, if you are receiving this post by email or RSS, you may need to visit my blog to watch the video.

The moderators in the video are Mary Ann (Maimi), Linda (Fire-Fly), Skip Slocum, Siobhan and Joe Mynhardt. To aid in identification, Linda is wearing the sunglasses, Mary Ann pops out of the top window of the cuckoo clock second, and Sio bursts out of a gift box. Joe is the elf on the far right at the start of the video and at the end, and Skip is, well, the other one :-)

Thanks to all the moderators concerned for sportingly agreeing to be featured in this video.

For those who may not know, all the mods on MWC are unpaid volunteers. They generously give their time to assist in the smooth running of the forum and ensure it remains a safe and welcoming place for all its members. The other mods not shown in the video are Amie, Foxy, Carrie, Andrew, Mairi (Ma100), DC, Alice (Country4gal), and Don.

If you have a bit of extra spare time over the festive period, why not check out what's going on at myWritersCircle, especially if you haven't visited the forum for a while (or at all). You can join in discussions on all aspects of writing (or anything else for that matter in The Coffee Shop), check out the latest market info in Writers Wanted, and give and receive constructive criticism in Review My Work.

Just keep an eye out for those pesky elves!

A Very Merry Christmas from the MWC Moderators!

With the aid of the excellent Office Max Elf Yourself website, I created this seasonal video featuring five of the moderators from my forum at www.mywriterscircle.com.

I hope you enjoy it. Be sure to have the speakers up when you play it!

As always, if you are receiving this post by email or RSS, you may need to visit my blog to watch the video.

The moderators in the video are Mary Ann (Maimi), Linda (Fire-Fly), Skip Slocum, Siobhan and Joe Mynhardt. To aid in identification, Linda is wearing the sunglasses, Mary Ann pops out of the top window of the cuckoo clock second, and Sio bursts out of a gift box. Joe is the elf on the far right at the start of the video and at the end, and Skip is, well, the other one :-)

Thanks to all the moderators concerned for sportingly agreeing to be featured in this video.

For those who may not know, all the mods on MWC are unpaid volunteers. They generously give their time to assist in the smooth running of the forum and ensure it remains a safe and welcoming place for all its members. The other mods not shown in the video are Amie, Foxy, Carrie, Andrew, Mairi (Ma100), DC, Alice (Country4gal), and Don.

If you have a bit of extra spare time over the festive period, why not check out what's going on at myWritersCircle, especially if you haven't visited the forum for a while (or at all). You can join in discussions on all aspects of writing (or anything else for that matter in The Coffee Shop), check out the latest market info in Writers Wanted, and give and receive constructive criticism in Review My Work.

Just keep an eye out for those pesky elves!

How to Plan a Successful Virtual Book Tour

Today's guest post from Dana Lynn Smith, The Savvy Book Marketer, is part of the virtual book tour for her newest book marketing guide, Virtual Book Tour Magic.

With a virtual book tour, authors can reach a large targeted audience of potential book buyers by making guest appearances on blogs, podcasts, radio shows and other venues.

Organizing a virtual book tour isn't hard, but it does take good organization. Here is a list of the steps involved in planning a virtual book tour:

• Before you start, have basic promotional tools in place, including a blog and social networking accounts.
• Begin planning at least two months in advance of the tour.
• Determine your goals for the tour and the type of tour you want to do.
• Determine the length of the tour and tour dates.
• Set up a recordkeeping system to keep track of the details for planning the tour.
• Decide what kind of content, giveaways or contests to offer on the tour.
• Make a list of prospective hosts and research them to find the best fit.
• Write a compelling invitation and send it to the top prospective hosts.
• Correspond with hosts, sending confirmations and details.
• Set up a schedule of tour stops, assigning hosts to specific dates.
• Develop a promotional plan and materials for the tour and begin pre-tour promotions.
• Write articles and interview questions and send to hosts.
• Monitor and promote daily during the tour.
• Coordinate giveaways and contests.
• Evaluate the success of the tour and take care of follow up tasks.

There you have it - the steps to organizing your own successful virtual book tour. Learn more about the details of planning a book tour in my new Virtual Book Tour Magic guidebook for authors.

Book Tour Special: Order Virtual Book Tour Magic by December 12 and you'll get an invitation to an exclusive book tour Q&A session with Dana on December 15.

About the Author: Dana Lynn Smith (right), The Savvy Book Marketer, helps authors and indie publishers learn how to sell more books through her how-to guides, blog, newsletter, and private coaching. For more book promotion tips, get her free Top Book Marketing Tips ebooks at www.TheSavvyBookMarketer.com.

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Many thanks to Dana for sharing her tips in this post as part of her Virtual Book Tour.

I will be reviewing Virtual Book Tour Magic on this blog on Monday 12 December, but I'm probably not giving away too much to say that I was hugely impressed with it.

You can also read my reviews of these other guides by Dana by clicking on the appropriate title in the list below:

How to Get Your Book Reviewed

Twitter Guide for Authors

Facebook Guide for Authors

If you have any comments or questions for Dana (or me), as ever, please feel free to leave them below!

How to Plan a Successful Virtual Book Tour

Today's guest post from Dana Lynn Smith, The Savvy Book Marketer, is part of the virtual book tour for her newest book marketing guide, Virtual Book Tour Magic.

With a virtual book tour, authors can reach a large targeted audience of potential book buyers by making guest appearances on blogs, podcasts, radio shows and other venues.

Organizing a virtual book tour isn't hard, but it does take good organization. Here is a list of the steps involved in planning a virtual book tour:

• Before you start, have basic promotional tools in place, including a blog and social networking accounts.
• Begin planning at least two months in advance of the tour.
• Determine your goals for the tour and the type of tour you want to do.
• Determine the length of the tour and tour dates.
• Set up a recordkeeping system to keep track of the details for planning the tour.
• Decide what kind of content, giveaways or contests to offer on the tour.
• Make a list of prospective hosts and research them to find the best fit.
• Write a compelling invitation and send it to the top prospective hosts.
• Correspond with hosts, sending confirmations and details.
• Set up a schedule of tour stops, assigning hosts to specific dates.
• Develop a promotional plan and materials for the tour and begin pre-tour promotions.
• Write articles and interview questions and send to hosts.
• Monitor and promote daily during the tour.
• Coordinate giveaways and contests.
• Evaluate the success of the tour and take care of follow up tasks.

There you have it - the steps to organizing your own successful virtual book tour. Learn more about the details of planning a book tour in my new Virtual Book Tour Magic guidebook for authors.

Book Tour Special: Order Virtual Book Tour Magic by December 12 and you'll get an invitation to an exclusive book tour Q&A session with Dana on December 15.

About the Author: Dana Lynn Smith (right), The Savvy Book Marketer, helps authors and indie publishers learn how to sell more books through her how-to guides, blog, newsletter, and private coaching. For more book promotion tips, get her free Top Book Marketing Tips ebooks at www.TheSavvyBookMarketer.com.

* * *

Many thanks to Dana for sharing her tips in this post as part of her Virtual Book Tour.

I will be reviewing Virtual Book Tour Magic on this blog on Monday 12 December, but I'm probably not giving away too much to say that I was hugely impressed with it.

You can also read my reviews of these other guides by Dana by clicking on the appropriate title in the list below:

How to Get Your Book Reviewed

Twitter Guide for Authors

Facebook Guide for Authors

If you have any comments or questions for Dana (or me), as ever, please feel free to leave them below!

Think Yourself Lucky - Launched Today!

Big news! My publishers, The WCCL Network, have just launched Think Yourself Lucky, an audio guide that explains how anyone can boost their luck by applying just a few simple scientific principles.

I was commissioned by WCCL to research the content for this guide and write the script for it, and worked closely with them to develop what I believe is a comprehensive and highly professional finished product.

Think Yourself Lucky was a fascinating project to work on. As a psychology major, I have a long-standing interest in luck and related matters, so researching and writing Think Yourself Lucky really was a labour of love for me. And the more I got into it, the more I realized that for many people a course on this subject really could be a life-changer!

Think Yourself Lucky draws on recent scientific research by leading experts in this field, including Dr Richard Wiseman, Carol Sansone, Sonja Lyubomirsky, and many more.

From all of this I distilled seven key scientific principles you can apply to improve your luck in almost every aspect of your life. The only exception is the small proportion of what we call luck that truly IS based on chance. As I wrote in the introduction:

This course will NOT improve your chances of winning the state lottery, or even the weekly raffle held by the Parent–Teachers Association. These and similar events really ARE down to random chance, and anyone who claims they can boost your chances of winning in these cases is a fraud and a charlatan.

However, luck is about much, much more than this. It's about finding and grasping opportunities, and - more than that - creating opportunities of your own. It's about making changes to your life and how you live it, to allow luck more opportunities to enter your life and enrich it. And it's about taking instances of bad luck and turning them round to create good luck instead...

And it's not just me saying this, incidentally. Dr Richard Wiseman, a UK psychology professor who performed a decade-long study of luck, estimates that only 10% of "good luck" is actually down to chance. The remaining 90% remains something we can control ourselves.

In these diffficult economic times, we all need all the luck we can get. And I'm excited to have worked with WCCL to create a first-rate course I really believe WILL help anyone who applies the principles it sets out to enjoy more luck in their personal, financial and business lives.

Please click through any of the links in this post (or the banner below) to read full details about Think Yourself Lucky, including my publisher's current $30 launch discount!

Think Yourself Lucky - Launched Today!

Big news! My publishers, The WCCL Network, have just launched Think Yourself Lucky, an audio guide that explains how anyone can boost their luck by applying just a few simple scientific principles.

I was commissioned by WCCL to research the content for this guide and write the script for it, and worked closely with them to develop what I believe is a comprehensive and highly professional finished product.

Think Yourself Lucky was a fascinating project to work on. As a psychology major, I have a long-standing interest in luck and related matters, so researching and writing Think Yourself Lucky really was a labour of love for me. And the more I got into it, the more I realized that for many people a course on this subject really could be a life-changer!

Think Yourself Lucky draws on recent scientific research by leading experts in this field, including Dr Richard Wiseman, Carol Sansone, Sonja Lyubomirsky, and many more.

From all of this I distilled seven key scientific principles you can apply to improve your luck in almost every aspect of your life. The only exception is the small proportion of what we call luck that truly IS based on chance. As I wrote in the introduction:

This course will NOT improve your chances of winning the state lottery, or even the weekly raffle held by the Parent–Teachers Association. These and similar events really ARE down to random chance, and anyone who claims they can boost your chances of winning in these cases is a fraud and a charlatan.

However, luck is about much, much more than this. It's about finding and grasping opportunities, and - more than that - creating opportunities of your own. It's about making changes to your life and how you live it, to allow luck more opportunities to enter your life and enrich it. And it's about taking instances of bad luck and turning them round to create good luck instead...

And it's not just me saying this, incidentally. Dr Richard Wiseman, a UK psychology professor who performed a decade-long study of luck, estimates that only 10% of "good luck" is actually down to chance. The remaining 90% remains something we can control ourselves.

In these diffficult economic times, we all need all the luck we can get. And I'm excited to have worked with WCCL to create a first-rate course I really believe WILL help anyone who applies the principles it sets out to enjoy more luck in their personal, financial and business lives.

Please click through any of the links in this post (or the banner below) to read full details about Think Yourself Lucky, including my publisher's current $30 launch discount!

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