Requirements -
Reviewers &
Influencers
We would consider you for membership of CFBA if you agree with the
below terms.
1. You have an established blog with an active readership and a Google
PageRank of at least 3.
2. For books that you request to read, you must post a review sometime
during the three days of the tour. You are allowed to copy and paste
the book tour introduction that we post on the CFBA blog, and then add
your own review at the bottom. And no review is a bad review. If you
don't like the book, say so, just be kind. We also appreciate any other
postings that you do of your reviews to Amazon, Goodreads, Facebook or
any other place that you normally post.
3. If you miss three book tours that you have signed up for, you are
suspended.
4. There are two "group emails" a week. One I send out on Sunday night
at 11:30PM to announce the tour for Monday that starts at midnight.
Then the other "newsletter" comes out on Tuesday night at 11:30PM
announcing the tour for Wednesday that starts at midnight.
5. When you put up a post for a tour, you should ping yourself rather
than wait for the search engine spiders to scan your blog. Go to:
http://pingomatic.com/ enter the address of your blog tour post and hit
ping!
6. For books that you haven't requested but still wish to participate
in the tour, you can participate in one of three ways, if you so
choose.
a.)You can post the
Amazon links that we supply for the book and
introduce the book to your readers as an influencer.
b.) You can copy and paste the "backcover synopsis review" of the book
that we post as a review on the CFBA blog, it also now contains a link
to the first chapter of the book.
c.) Or the really fun part...I supply a link for the author. You could
email him/her and do an interview by email (you send questions and they
send answers back) and you post the Q & A!
7. A lot of reviewers like this because they get to know the authors
personally!
8. The amount of participation is up to you, the only thing that we ask
is that when you DO request a book, that you give an actual review of
the book!
9. Tours for each book are three days long (weekend tours are four
days) You are only required to post once during any one of those tour
days for the particular book.
10. Missing three book tours for books that you have ordered are
grounds for suspension.
11. If you get within one week of a particular tour and you haven't
received the book it is your responsibility to contact me about the
missing book. Publishers will not ship replacement books once a tour
has started.
12. OUR GREAT RULE: Please never give away the ending of the
book...LOL...it tends to make authors testy!
9. Email us if you would
like to join our organization!