Blog Tour Host Kelly Oakes Shares Crucial Advice on Blogging and Tours

By thewritersblock | March 24, 2014

Blog tour host Kelly Oaks shares with authors the inside scoop on blog tours, social media and marketing your work. Kelly Oakes is a certified bookaholic, long-time blogger, designer, operations manager and columnist now turned entrepreneur. Kelly is the creator and owner of Got Fiction? blog. She has been blogging since 2009, starting with her very first book review blog: DemonLover’s books & more. With years worth of experience as a blogger and knowledge of the book industry. Kelly is now a Virtual Assistant to authors who need that extra help managing and marketing books and the authors who write them at www.authorswritehand.com. Join us in picking her brain about tours, cross marketing, and Squidge!

Each episode of Th3 Writers Block, F.M. Sherrill and Becca C. Smith takes us deep into the chaotic world of writing. They reach out to known and unknown authors, writers, bloggers, script writers, tour hosts, novelists, and nerds alike on an ever-growing quest to build a safe writing community where like-minded creatives can share their experiences, drama, and advice. Tune in every other week to learn something new about this strange writing universe. Avoid common pitfalls and mistakes, connect with your peers, and as always; keep writing!

Host F.M Sherrill is a novelist and avid bullshitter that’s why she lives in L.A.. She’s been writing for as long as her ancient mind can remember, devouring tales like an anemic vampire roaming the streets in hot pink heels, always thirsty for more. Her most recent venture has been publishing the dark fantasy novels Ivory, Black Sunrise, and Cry Wolf. When she’s not writing, she’s making steampunk weapons, blogging on girlswritingcoffee, sewing giant Doctor Who plushes on her and Becca’s Etsy girlssewingstuffs, making costumes for some film bloke or cosplayer, and sculpting/casting movie prop replicas while gardening in her urban apartment. Her favorite tools? A soldering iron, a blowtorch, a band saw, a sonic screwdriver, a replicator and an active imagination.

Host Becca C. Smith received her Film degree from Full Sail University and has worked in the Film and Television industry for most of her adult life. In 2010 Becca published her first novel, Riser followed by the sequel, Reaper, in 2011, and the finale, Ripper in 2013. In 2012 Becca wrote the children’s novel Alexis Tappendorf and the Search for Beale’s Treasure. She is also the co-author of the teen graphic novel Ghost Whisperer: The Haunted. Most recently, Becca released Atlas, the first book in a new Urban Fantasy series. She currently lives in Los Angeles, CA with her husband, Stephan and their two cats Jack and Duke.

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