Book Tour: Ransom by Michele Poague

As The Healing Crystal Trilogy comes to a close, spring has finally come to the high mountains. As winter releases its grip, the small band of Survin refugees is violently divided. When three unique worlds collide, cultures change forever, as traditions and rituals are swept aside. While faith crumbles for one, another’s is renewed. The gulf between these worlds may prove insurmountable.

Young Kinter, lost in the shadow of her sister, fights for her own power. As she maneuvers to seize the crystal and displace Kairma as the heir, Kinter’s future hangs by a thread. Collin, Kairma’s lifelong friend, discovers he may be forever barred from Kairma by the evil carried in her blood unless the power of the Crystal can be realized. Bearing the weight of the most powerful object known to mankind, Kairma has an impossible choice to make: return to Survin in ignorance or dare to trust these powerful strangers.

When freedom fighter Rand Solis allies himself with young Kairma, they discover that in order to heal the world, both must make sacrifices-friends, religious beliefs, and political philosophies. Great knowledge comes at great cost to the pair as they learn that a political philosophy may be perfect in a given moment … but such moments are fleeting.

The Healing Crystal Trilogy presents a science fiction epic about lost technology, the morality of power, and the creation of religious and political philosophy.

Blogging in the world of books has really taken a step up. I started only two years ago and have seen an astronomical increase in the number of book review blogs. True, some have died out but others have flourished, and new ones come on line almost daily.

 

Some authors are particularly attracted to blog reviewers. What are the reasons why?

 

Bloggers are easy to approach. Most have contact information on their blog, along with information about what the blogger likes to read. Someone who writes space opera won’t be sending their book to someone who does non-fiction reviews.

 

If the review is good, often the author can use part of it to promote their book. An author used one of my review lines for almost a year in his tweets and other promotions.  I loved that! After all, we want to be read as much as an author! It also means I wrote something well.

 

If the reviewer is good, they cross post to sites like GoodReads and Barnes & Noble. This means the word gets out. Even if the review is not the most glowing, it gets people to think about the book. It shows that others have read it.

 

But I am just a reviewer.  I thought I would ask some of my favorite authors what book bloggers mean to them.  Most of them agreed with what I have already mentioned. They all, beyond that, said similar things. Here is a good example from Michele Poague, author of the Healing Crystal Trilogy:

 

 

Yes, I depend on their opinion and, as a self-published author, it is very difficult to find honest reviews. And I love blog tours. I get to meet very interesting people and some of the questions they pose in interviews are very thought provoking.

 

 

I believe I’ve gained many new fans through blog tours, some of them being the blogger who reviewed my books. In fact, on this tour I just picked up another wonderful fan.

 

 

Because many bloggers cross post to other sites and on book retail sites, it definitely increases my audience reach. I look at how many people have added my books to their “To Be Read” pile. It is amazing.

 

 

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