TLC Book Tours

“Publishing is changing so fast that it has been compared to the wild, wild west and the explosion of book blogs has made it challenging to know how to best reach the right audience for a book.  TLC Book Tours are the experts!  Lisa Munley found wonderful bloggers to host my tour. She hits the perfect balance between warmth and professionalism, and is just a joy to work with. I would work with her again in a heartbeat.”

–Jean Davies Okimoto, author of The Love Ceiling

“I didn’t know what to expect from a blog tour, but I knew how important the internet has become as a way to reach readers. TLC was a pleasure to deal with. Lisa treats you like a friend and patiently guides you through the process. The good part for the author is that it is effortless. Lisa makes sure the whole thing runs smoothly. I felt the reviewers were intelligent and thoughtful in their critiques, and that a good dialogue about the book emerged from the process. I would definitely recommend them.”

— Tatjana Soli, author of The Lotus Eaters

“I am hopelessly and famously backward regarding anything involving the Internet and still tend to think of computers as the world’s best typewriters, magically endowed with the power to correct my spelling and let me comb through encyclopedias. So when Penguin told me about TLC’s blog tour, I truly didn’t understand a single thing about it. And then, in the two months before Keeping the Feast came out, I started getting regular notices of reviews that had been posted on the web about my book. They were thoughtful, considered and — what I especially loved, since I live in France – they all seemed to come from very different parts of the U.S. and very different sorts of readers. I liked seeing how readers responded, and once I figured out I could respond too, I really enjoyed it. The best was the last evening, when all the groups were online at once and I was trying to answer their questions as fast as they came up. The whole experience was marvelous, and I believe my book got ‘out there’ in a way it never would have without it. I also loved writing a review for aarti’s blog about a ‘riveting’ female character in literature. I chose Penelope in Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad and had a blast, and now a lot of my friends are reading it too. Thanks all round!”

Paula Butturini, author of Keeping the Feast

“TLC Book Tours is such a great way to get the word out about your book! The bloggers they work with are reliable and enthusiastic, as well as being smart and savvy readers who write thoughtful and interesting reviews. The buzz they create in the blogosphere is invaluable, and readers respond!”

– Jennie Shortridge, author of When She Flew, Love & Biology at the Center of the Universe, Eating Heaven, and Riding With the Queen
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“I was very impressed with TLC Book Tours.  Lisa was friendly, dedicated, and professional throughout my entire blog tour.  Indeed, the level of professionalism was stellar, both from her and each reviewer.  The reviews were honest, detailed, and helped bolster on-line exposure for my literary debut novel, PRECIOUS.  I noticed jumps in sales as well as increased visitations to my website.  The group also made the experience a fun and lively one; I had several conversations with reviewers that went beyond the standard post and have added all of their sites to my own blogroll.  I would recommend TLC in a heartbeat.  Two thumbs up!”

–Sandra Novack, author of Precious

“Lisa is not only very nice, but I think she’s really good at what she does, and she’s very on top of things.  She followed up on every last detail and I noticed she commented on every blog post.  I was very impressed and pleased with the TLC tour.   I really enjoyed the tour and have made some great new friends among the blog hosts.  Thanks for all your efforts; I’ve already recommended TLC to several author friends.”

–Judith Hendricks, author of The Laws of Harmony

Online book promotion has become essential to a book’s success, and TLC arranged a book tour for my new story collection, THE MECHANICS OF FALLING, that gained positive exposure for my book.  My book was reviewed online by articulate, thoughtful reviewers, so the selection of sites was fantastic and well matched to the nature of the book.  TLC organizes the reading tour with a high degree of professionalism and is responsive to reviewers and to authors as the process unfolds.  My online book tour went smoothly thanks to this professional oversight, and I’d recommend TLC to any author hoping to promote her book.

–Catherine Brady, author of The Mechanics of Falling

Trish Collins is very professional and at the same time, fun to work with. She answered all my questions and very patiently educated me about this virtual tour process. She provided all the info. I needed to maximize the experience, trying hard to match my book with appropriate blogs and for the most part, doing that exceedingly well. She did all she promised (and more) on schedule and checked to make sure the bloggers posted their reviews when they were supposed to.

I haven’t done a virtual tour with anyone else, so I have nothing to compare this to, but if I did another virtual tour, I’d definitely use TLC and Trish Collins again. I recommend her with enthusiasm and without reservation.

– Eleanor Bluestein, author of Tea & Other Ayama Na Tales

I want to thank you for the very professional job that you did in setting up and conducting my TLC Book Tour….Overall, I believe that the TLC Book Tour was a sound investment for Staghorn Press. It’s hard to track specific results, but the reader exposure per dollar spent seems to be in balance.”

–David H. Jones, author of Two Brothers – One North, One South

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“I had a wonderful time, and I really enjoyed interacting with the hosts, writing guest blogs, doing interviews, and just meeting new readers and bloggers. I found every one of the hosts to be incredibly easy to work with and genuinely interested in my book as well as me, the author. In this difficult industry, it’s so gratifying and humbling to know that there are people who actually enjoy reading and who get a kick out of meeting the author. In the same way, I got such a great kick out of meeting them!

I also really appreciate how involved you were, Lisa, with my tour.  I never worried that my hosts might bail, or that I would have to be the one to keep on top of them.  You were great about making sure that the posts were up when they were supposed to be and dealt with all the details so that I didn’t worry at all during the tour!”

–Christine Son, author of Off the Menu

“By the end of my virtual tour, my novel was all over the blogosphere.  TLC Book Tours did a fantastic job helping me connect directly with readers and further publicize my book.”

–David Ebershoff, author of The 19th Wife and The Danish Girl