April 19 2020

A Thoughtful Woman begins its virtual book blog tour today.

For those of you who’ve never heard of a virtual book blog tour, it’s basically what it says on the tin. Someone, Rachel Gilbey in this case, organises a group of appropriate book bloggers to post reviews of a particular book, supplemented with author interviews, author articles and book extracts. It’s a virtual version of the traditional author signing tour where an author visits bookshops and signs copies for their fans.

After giving Rachel an overview of the book so she can offer it to the most appropriate reviewers on her list, the author has no input into the process at all. The reviewers receive no reward or remuneration whatsoever, other than a copy of the book to be reviewed. All of which means that the reviews are genuine.

(One the tour is over, you’ll be able to find extracts from the reviews and links to the reviewer webpages on the A Thoughtful Woman reviews page.)