Blood Sky Blog Tour; Fallen, Cold Light, Far Shore in a Single Volume
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Blood Sky Blog Tour; Fallen, Cold Light, Far Shore in a Single Volume

Blood Sky Blog Tour

Bewitching Book Tours has set up a blog tour for Blood Sky. The release date for Blood Sky is 8/24/15.

In addition, in honor of the publication of this fourth book in the series, Parvati Press is releasing a volume that includes the first three books in the After Series. That’s right, readers can now purchase a single eBook that contains all three books. The Amazon link is here http://amzn.to/1hw7cRT

So for readers who’d like to own the first three books, here’s the opportunity to do so! JOY OF READING!

Fallen, Cold Light, Far Shore

Blood Sky Book Blog Tour
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Blood Sky Book Blog Tour

This post lists tour stops for the Blood Sky Book Blog Tour.

Bewitching Book Tours Set up a really nice book tour for my forthcoming novel BLOOD SKY.

Schedule Blood Sky by Traci L. Slatton

August 24- September 21

August 24 Spotlight
Booklover Sue
http://bookloversue.blogspot.com

August 25 Spotlight
Zenny’s Awesome Book Reviews
https://zennysawesomebookreviews.wordpress.com/

August 26 Spotlight
3 Partners in Shopping, Nana, Mommy, and Sissy, Too!
http://3partnersinshopping.blogspot.com/

August 27 Spotlight
T’s Stuff
http://teresanoel.blogspot.com/

August 28 Interview
Deal Sharing Aunt
www.dealsharingaunt.blogspot.com

August 31 Guest blog
Roxanne’s Realm
www.roxannerhoads.com

September 1 Spotlight
Books That Hook
http://booksthathook.com/

September 2 Review
Fantatical Paranormal Romantical
http://fanaticalparanormalromantical.com/

September 3 Spotlight
Lisa’s World of Books
www.lisasworldofbooks.net

September 4 Character Interview
Eclipse Reviews
www.totaleclipsereviews.blogspot.com

September 7 Spotlight
Books and Tales
http://booksandtales.blogspot.co.uk/

September 8 Interview
Literary Musings
www.literarymusing.weebly.com

September 8 Spotlight
Books N Pearls
http://booksnpearls.com/blog

September 9 Interview
Author Karen Swart
www.authorkarenswart.blogspot.com

September 10 Interview
The Creatively Green Write at Home Mom
www.creativelygreen.blogspot.com

September 11

September 14 Interview
Urban Fantasy Investigations
http://urbanfantasyinvestigations.blogspot.com/

September 15 Spotlight
Marianne Willis Author
https://mariannewillisauthor.wordpress.com/

September 16 Spotlight
Live Laugh and Love Books
https://livelaughandlovebooks.wordpress.com

September 16 Spotlight
Around the World in Books
http://www.aroundtheworldinbooks.ca/

September 17 Spotlight
Houston Havens
https://houstonhavens.wordpress.com

September 18 Spotlight
CBY Book Club
http://cbybookclub.blogspot.co.uk

September 18 Spotlight
Geeks In High School
http://www.geeksinhighschool.com

September 18 Spotlight (review)
Books and Authors
http://bookreviewsandauthors.blogspot.com/

September 21 Guest blog
Fang-tastic Books
www.fang-tasticbooks.blogspot.com

Bewitching Book Tours

Book Trailer for BLOOD SKY
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Book Trailer for BLOOD SKY

So BLOOD SKY will soon be out… Here’s the Book Trailer.

This is the book trailer for BLOOD SKY, Book 4 in the award-winning After Series, by Traci L. Slatton

In a time of apocalyptic despair, love is put to the test… Deep in the badlands of Outpost City, in the Dark Horse saloon, a poker game is being played. The stakes are life and death—for the world. What can Emma afford to lose? Will she gamble on herself, or on Arthur? Will love find a way when the apocalypse closes in? A mystical odyssey, a haunting love…

 

Book Trailer Blood Sky

BLOOD SKY by Traci L. Slatton: Coming Soon
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BLOOD SKY by Traci L. Slatton: Coming Soon

BLOOD SKY is available for Amazon pre-order.

In a time of apocalyptic despair, love is put to the test… Deep in the badlands of Outpost City, in the Dark Horse saloon, a poker game is being played. The stakes are life and death—for the world. What can Emma afford to lose? Will she gamble on herself, or on Arthur? Will love find a way when the apocalypse closes in? A mystical odyssey, a haunting love…

The eagerly awaited fourth book in the award-winning paranormal romantic dystopian After Series will soon be published.

A few select bloggers have been offered the ARC. If you’re a reviewer and you’re interested in an Advance Review Copy, please contact me directly.

 

BLOOD SKY

Traci Slatton interviewed by Desiree Watson on Wellness Lounge
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Traci Slatton interviewed by Desiree Watson on Wellness Lounge

Desiree Watson interviewed me on her VoiceAmerica radio show Wellness Lounge, A Step Further.

Life in its multifarious impishness is both funny and fun. Recently I started a BlogTalkRadio show, Independent Artists & Thinkers. I’ve been booking guests and thinking about people I’d enjoy having on the show.

A friend of many years came to mind, a woman of vision and great energy: Desiree Watson. Back in the day when I was a healer, Desiree was interested in holistic health and wellness, and we had done some things together. So I googled around and found her Wellness Interactive site. Desiree has been a busy lady, I thought, and promptly emailed her.

A few hours later, my cell phone rang. It was Desiree herself. What a delight to hear her warm voice!

I had meant to invite her to be a guest on my show, but she beat me to it and invited me to be a guest on her VoiceAmerica Radio Show: Wellness Lounge, A Step Further. Her show is focused on empowering listeners, body mind and soul.

Here’s what the show has to say about itself:

THE WELLNESS LOUNGE-A STEP FURTHER empowers you with the benefits of a wellness lifestyle. Desiree Watson, a pioneer in the wellness lifestyle movement, guides you toward incorporating wellness into your life through commentary and interviews with exemplary personalities from such diverse fields as professional sports, corporate management, government, and health care. Our topics embrace the interconnections of mind, body and spirit, while offering in-depth analyses of the wellness lifestyle movement and its impact on the health care system, politics and international aid. Related topics will spark awareness of the positive impact of the wellness lifestyle movement and how a wellness lifestyle commitment can successfully empower the individual and influence educational and political processes on a local, national and international scale. The Wellness Lounge – A Step Further airs Mondays at 6 AM Pacific on VoiceAmerica Empowerment and Saturdays at 7 AM Pacific on VoiceAmerica Variety.

This morning we aired. It was a delight to be a guest; Desiree has a talent for supporting and encouraging her guests to open up and be eloquent. What fun!

Here’s the show link: http://www.voiceamerica.com/episode/85279/empowerment-of-self

You can listen here, too.

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Wellness Lounge

BookGorilla and Kindle Nation Daily: Excellent Promotion
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BookGorilla and Kindle Nation Daily: Excellent Promotion

BookGorilla brings free or deeply discounted books to readers via an online subscription service.

As an independent author and the publisher of a small press, I am always, eternally, and forever looking for ways to market and promote my books. It’s an essential part of the job. I do marketing and promotion tasks weekly. Should do them daily.

I can write and publish the most awesomely delicious books, but if readers don’t know about those books, they won’t buy them.

Over the years, I’ve tried various methods for making people aware of my books. I’ve paid to have book trailers made. Those help; everyone likes to watch a short, well-made video that teases and intrigues.

I regularly submit my books to book review blogs, because those sites can spread the word about a book all across the worldwide web. In fact, I constantly troll the internet for book review sites that would be a good fit for my books.

I blog regularly, and you, dear reader, are tasting the fruit of that effort at this very moment. I write pieces for the Huffington Post. I create podcasts for an iTunes podcast channel. I’ve recently started a BlogTalkRadio show, “Independent Artists & Thinkers.”

Perhaps the single most effective promotion I’ve done, that has the most immediate and measurable impact on ebook sales, is run a promotion through BookGorilla and Kindle Nation Daily.

The way it works is that readers subscribe to BookGorilla. When they sign up, they choose their personal reading preferences from a detailed list of genres and sub-genres. Then, every day, subscribers receive an email tailored specifically to their individual preferences. This email lists top quality ebooks that are, for a limited time, offered either free or at a juicy discount.

Kindle Nation Daily is more like a news service for all things kindle, and it dovetails with BookGorilla to offer bargains to readers.

For my recent novel BROKEN, I paid for a Kindle Nation Daily feature, which includes an excerpt, and received a free slideover to the BookGorilla email blast.

The KND feature looked gorgeous:

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Beautiful, yes? Beneath the 5 Star Praise box was the excerpt, so readers could get a taste of the novel–so they would be tempted to buy it.

The same day, Broken was included in the BookGorilla email blast:

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Nice, right? But much more than nice. It’s effective. Immediately, book sales increased. Amazon ratings started rising. After a while, I took screenshots to capture those lovely high rankings:

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Then:

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And:

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It was extremely satisfying to watch the ratings rise! I didn’t capture the ascent at its peak, because I was busy through the day.

To be clear, the ratings rose because the book was selling and selling!

These screenshots speak for themselves. BookGorilla, with Kindle Nation Daily, was an effective way to market and promote my novel. I recommend it.

BookGorilla