Blog tours / instagram tours, what are they? Do you need one?
(Updated in Feb 2025)
Blog tours are mostly dead, so I only recommend IG tours.
All right, so you have a book on pre-order or ready to go, you’re considering your marketing options, and you’re wondering if you should do a book tour. In this post, I’ll explain the advantages of blog and Insta…
The Curse and the Prince Cover Reveal
The day has finally come. This is the cover for book 2 in the series Kingdom of Curses and Shadows; The Curse and the Prince! If you've read the first book, you know who's on the cover...This book is on pre-order and it's coming out on January 2021. We'll get to learn what happens to Zora after th…
Bookstagram tour for The Cup and the Prince
I'm so excited that The Cup and the Prince had a bookstagram tour with Literary Bound! I'm super happy that this cover, illustrated by Natalia Sorokina, has been getting so much bookstagram love.
Check the awesome posts and if you're on instagram, they're all worth a follow: Vie…
The Cup and the Prince blog and bookstagram tour with Favourite Pages
The Cup and the Prince is going to have an awesome blog tour, organized by Favourite Pages. I can't wait to see all the content bloggers and bookstagrammers are going to come up with! I feel that book bloggers are so important, and I'm happy to have so many of them reviewing The Cup and the Prince.
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Release day Bookstagram tour for The Cup and the Prince
The Cup and the Prince is out, and to celebrate it, MTMC tours organized a one-day bookstagram tour. The photos are amazing!
And you can enter to win a paperback copy of The Cup and the Prince!
These hosts are amazing and super creative and have tons of beautiful bookish pictures in this one-day ins…
Minecraft inspiration and a Royal Competition in The Cup and the Prince
I have a new book coming up, and I hope you're as excited as I am! It's The Cup and the Prince, and it's coming out on October 15th.
There were tons of things behind this book, but I think that one thing that spoke to me were the tough times we're living, and how I wanted to write something light an…
Teachers are badasses: why my upcoming protagonist is one
As I was planning my upcoming series, Kingdom of Curses and Shadows, I thought that I wanted the main female character to be a badass. It was mostly for variety, since in my previous novels the heroines start out rather insecure, and then slowly grow stronger and more confident. I wanted to make it …
Within Magic Audiobook is Out!
Super happy that Within Magic, the final book in the YA fantasy series Portals to Whyland, is out in audiobook. Now you can hear the entire series! ?
The narrator is Winona Owen, who also narrated Kissing Magic, bringing her passion and enthusiasm to the project. This audiobook has been ready sinc…
Some thoughts on wavy, bushy, and curly hair.
I have a black grandma, or had, as she’s been gone from this world for some time now. Since I knew her, she had thin grey hair that was snow white and straight. Perhaps because of her hair, perhaps because we don’t notice people in our family, I didn’t know she was black when I was very little…
The Selection Series by Kiera Cass: how will it play out on Netflix? + Review
Oh, the torture!
We all know that girl. And that guy. They’re just friends, or she’s not yet interested in him, so she’s relaxed, funny, authentic, confident, and endearing. What happens then? The guy falls head over heels for her.
At first she might not like him back, or maybe she’s just su…
Star Spark by Day Leitao Release Blitz- excerpt and giveaway
This is awesome. It's my own book, and I'm happy to host it on my blog. This blitz is organized by Rockstar Book Tours
There's also a $20 giveaway, so make sure to scroll down.
Title: STAR SPARK
Author: Day Leitao
Pub. Date: May 26, 2020
Publisher: Sparkly Wave
Formats: Paperbac…
Star Spark is out - And why launching a book is terrifying
Star Spark is out today. Yay! It took longer to come out than I had originally planned, but it’s finally here.
I’m really happy to bring these characters and this story to life. That said, launch day is always nerve wracking. I thought I would be calmer for Star Spark. I already launched three n…
Zuko and Kylo's redemption arcs compared
The Last Airbender is on Netflix again and people are excited about it. And The Rise of Skywalker, erm, it’s on Disney Plus, yeah.
Zuko is a beloved character from The Last Airbender, and many people praise his redemption arc. As a misguided young person trying to please a father figure, there are…
How I saved by switching my newsletter to Sendy
Edit: This article is from 2020, with some updates from 2021. Recently I've found that authors have been having difficulties to be approved for Amazon SES, so please keep that in mind.
I recently switched my mailing list to Sendy, and here I explain how I did it and my impressions so far and give yo…
The Folk of the Air by Holly Black video review and discussion.
Lots of people really enjoyed this series.
I enjoyed it to, and discussed it with my podcast colleague Mary. I podcast as Denise (Day is short for Denise).
We have a non-spoilery review followed by a spoiler-filled review and discussion of the books the Cruel Prince, The Wicked King, and The Queen o…
How a cover saved a book
Star Spark is the first novel I've ever written, or rather, the first novel I ever started to write. Oh, wait, there was that one novel I started when I was nine, but that doesn’t count. Anyway, I’ve had the idea for this novel for many years now. Its temporary title was The War of the Lunatics.…
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