Stumbler's Blog Crawl

Virtual Book Tour Process

Hosting Renee for this book tour is all about a conversation between people, albeit on a technology platform - geeky but intimate at the same time. As Renee said, she is keenly sensitive to respecting your own voice, given how central that has been to her own story.

Towards that end, here are some suggestions:

* Spend some time praying & thinking about how best this conversation could be integrated in your blog - then bounce an email to Renee to "talk thru" your ideas.

* Once you settled on an idea, it would be best to have any writing or work with Renee done by the end of August. This make sure there is plenty of time to reflect and correct, before the Virtual Book Tour actually begins. It will also help timing-wise with Renee, who has a big Sept. work-wise.

* In the week before your date to host Renee, it may make sense to let the readers of your blog know that you'll be hosting the blog tour at the assigned day.

* On the day you "host" Renee it would be great if you could post links to the 2-3 "stops" on the tour before you & the 2-3 "stops" that come after you on the tour - the calendar is here.

* It probably goes without saying, but it would be wonderful if you had the chance to visit other stops on the Tour, commenting wherever or whenever you felt the energy to.

What other ideas or suggestions do folks have ?

Link for Online Sales & $1 to Becky's House

For every online purchase of Stumbling Toward Faith in the YS Store, YS will donate a dollar to Becky's House - - here's the link to YS bookstore page

Conference Call ?

If your schedule allows, let's plan on connecting via a conference call on Tues, Aug. 10 at 11 a.m. Pacific time to discuss Virtual Book Tour details, talk a bit with Renee and clear up any questions. To join the call, just dial in at 415-869-7829.

Let me know if you will be able to make this call.

Book Tour Schedule

Aug 31 Real Live Preacher
Sept 1 U2 Sermons
Sept 2 Jordon Cooper
Sept 3 Cory Aldrich

Sept 6 Andrew Jones
Sept 7 Liz Rios
Sept 8 Jay Voorhees
Sept 9 Jenell Paris
Sept 10 Mark Scrimenti

Sept 13 Jen Lemen
Sept 14 Will Samson
Sept 15 Dry Bones Dance
Sept 16 Chris Monroe
Sept 17 Angi York Crane

Sept 20 Adam Cleaveland
Sept 21 Claudia Burney
Sept 22 Doug Ferguson
Sept 23 Bobbie
Sept 24 Mike Todd

Sept 27 Chris Erdman
Sept 28 Lilly Lewin
Sept 29 Bob Carlton
Sept 30 Renee Summary

If you have conflicts, please use the comments to exchange info - I'll post the completed schedule by Aug 9.

Virtual Book Tour Details

Greeting fellow Stumblers - and thanks for agreeing to be part of this rag-tag effort to get folks connected to Renee's story.

Let me review some details on the book :

* The book site for is now live here

* A sampler can be downloaded here Download stumbling_toward_faith_sample.pdf.

In a nutshell, a Virtual Book Tour consists of an author "stopping" at a given number of websites in a given about of time, the same as they would do at bookstores during a real world tour. At these stops, the author may be interviewed, may take over the site for a day and blog themselves, may answer questions from readers, get their book reviewed or do all four.