Promote your Event
Are you a publicist? An author? A store or venue that hosts authors? Add your events to BookTour’s database in seconds.
Events in BookTour’s database are sent to online calendars and our partner book-friendly sites. Adding your events to BookTour is the quickest way to get them seen by thousands of potential new readers.
Searching
You can easily search for events by time and place. In addition, simple search is available at the top of main pages like this one, which automatically guesses the results of your search before you even click the Search button.
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Promote your events!
Get web-wide exposure for your tour dates by adding them to BookTour. It's easy, fast, and free. Get started here.
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Calendar updates
If you use a standards-based calendar program like iCal, Mozilla Calendar, or Zimbra, you can have any author's tour dates show up automatically on your calendar. Just click the "Follow this author in my calendar" link on any author's page.
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Finding and following authors
Author lists: Find every author or just new authors. There's also an RSS feed for new authors.
Find a random author: Click the Random Author link at the bottom of any page. To request an author speak in your area, click the "Request an author" button (if available) on the author's page. |
Widgets
You can easily add a BookTour widget to your website to automatically show events you're interested in. You have three choices:
Popular authors: Click here for instructions on adding a widget that mirrors our front page. A single author: On any author's page, just click "Follow this author on my website." A venue: on any venue's page, click "Follow this venue's events on my website" |
RSS feeds
New authors to the site: Click here for a feed.
New authors in particular genres: Visit the particular section of BookTour you're interested in (see "Browse by genre" above) and click the RSS icon in your browser's address bar. Events coming up in a particular area: Click here. A specific author or venue: On any author or venue's page, just click "Follow this author (or venue) by RSS." |
Email updates
Sign up to receive a weekly email of all author events coming up in your area.
Individual author updates: On any author's page, click "Follow this author by email" to subscribe to updates on when the author is coming to your area. You can manage your email preferences on your profile page. |
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Google Earth view
You can zoom around the world and through time to find authors on BookTour. Check it out here.
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