Check-In (6)

Check-In is a weekly post every Saturday or Sunday. This check-in post will include all the current tours, in case some of you guys missed some of the posts, who has the book for the tour, updates in the blog, anything in general. This is for the all the members, in case you don't know what's going on.

In General:
IBT is now 2 months old! We also have 80+ members.

Check-Lists:
We are behind by 2 tours! We need to send an email for Before I Fall and Arson.

Reviewers who have a book in their possession/where book is:

My Invented Life - Tasha

Shade- Alaine

Rising Shadow- Lynsey mailed to Mari (not received)

Sing Me To Sleep USA/CANADA- Alyssa. International- Mariana mailed to Sharline. (not received)

Taken By Storm USA/Canada- Laurie. International- Cat mailed to Amanda-Lee. (not received)

Leaving Gee's Bend- Cat

My Big Nose And Other Natural Disasters- Amanda-Lee

Current Tours:

One-Book Tours:
Forget-Her-Nots by Amy Brecount White
Rising Shadow by Jacquelyn Wheeler
Shade by Jeri Smith-Ready
My Invented Life by Lauren Bjorkman
Swoon At Your Own Risk by Sydney Salter
My Big Nose And Other Natural Disasters by Sydney Salter
Impossible by Nancy Werlin
Leaving Gee's Bend by Irene Latham
Restoring Harmony by Joelle Anthony
Of All The Stupid Things by Alexandra Diaz
Prophecy of the Sisters by Michelle Zink
Chasing Brooklyn by Lisa Schroeder
Shadow Hills by Anastasia Hopcus
Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
Arson by Estevan Vega
Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side by Beth Fantaskey
Jekel Loves Hyde by Beth Fantaskey
The Nanny Returns by Nicola Kraus and Emma McLaughlin
Getting Revenge on Lauren Wood by Eileen Cook

Two-Book Tours:
Sing Me To Sleep by Angela Morrison
Taken By Storm by Angela Morrison

Three-Book Tours:
The Ring by Bobbie Pyron

Four-Book Tours:
Out of Shadows by Jason Wallace

New Tours:

Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side by Beth Fantaskey
Jekel Loves Hyde by Beth Fantaskey
The Nanny Returns by Nicola Kraus and Emma McLaughlin
Getting Revenge on Lauren Wood by Eileen Cook

Twitter:
Follow @intbooktours.

Announcements/Updates:

• We need your opinions on communication and check-lists. How should we communicate, right now is email, when sending and receiving books? Do you want us to get a chat box? As for the check-lists, should we continue sending them? Share your thoughts here.

Anything else?
Any other questions please comment below and check back a day after, hopefully we will see your comment an give you an answer. Or, if you want to email, email your question to ibtcoordinator at gmail dot com. Have a great week!

Check-In (5)

Check-In is a weekly post every Saturday or Sunday. This check-in post will include all the current tours, in case some of you guys missed some of the posts, who has the book for the tour, updates in the blog, anything in general. This is for the all the members, in case you don't know what's going on.

In General:
We are so sorry for not posting a Check-In last week! We hope and will try our best that it won't happen again. Having said that, we now have 70 members! The google form now has 70 sign-ups. Thank you to all!

Check-Lists:
We are updated with check-lists.. so with all the tour sign-ups that are closed, we already sent an email to everyone.

Reviewers who have a book in their possession/where book is:
Sing Me To Sleep USA/CANADA- Laurie sent it to Alyssa but still hasn't gotten it. According to DC, arrived in P.O Box though.

Sing Me To Sleep International- Mariana sent it to Sharline on March 17, it's in the mail also.

My Invented Life - Amanda-Lee sent it to Tasha on March 19, it is in the mail.

Shade- Owners of IBT (Reggie & Mavie) sent it to Alaine on March 15, again, it's still in the mail.

Rising Shadow- Lynsey

Taken By Storm International- Cat

Basically, all the books are in the mail. For all the other tours, we have forwarded the first person's addy to the authors/donators, some already have sent it, some have not. We are only posting the tours of which someone already has received the book.

Current Tours:

One-Book Tours:
Forget-Her-Nots by Amy Brecount White
Rising Shadow by Jacquelyn Wheeler
Shade by Jeri Smith-Ready
My Invented Life by Lauren Bjorkman
Swoon At Your Own Risk by Sydney Salter
My Big Nose And Other Natural Disasters by Sydney Salter
Impossible by Nancy Werlin
Leaving Gee's Bend by Irene Latham
Restoring Harmony by Joelle Anthony
Of All The Stupid Things by Alexandra Diaz
Prophecy of the Sisters by Michelle Zink
Chasing Brooklyn by Lisa Schroeder
Shadow Hills by Anastasia Hopcus
Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
Arson by Estevan Vega

Two-Book Tours:
Sing Me To Sleep by Angela Morrison
Taken By Storm by Angela Morrison

Three-Book Tours:
The Ring by Bobbie Pyron

Four-Book Tours:
Out of Shadows by Jason Wallace

New Tours (since 2 weeks ago):

Chasing Brooklyn by Lisa Schroeder - sign ups closed.
Restoring Harmony by Joelle Anthony - sign ups closed.
Shadow Hills by Anastasia Hopcus - sign ups closed.
Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
Arson by Estevan Vega
The Ring by Bobbie Pyron
Out of Shadows by Jason Wallace

Twitter:
We updated our twitter! Follow us @intbooktours.

Announcements/Updates:

• No one is putting their blog URL on the Mr. Linky's anymore! Thank you to all of you guys for following instructions! We really appreciate it.
  
• We need more book donations so if your willing to donate.. please send an email to internationalbooktours at gmail dot com

Anything else?
Any other questions please comment below and check back a day after, hopefully we will see your comment an give you an answer. Or, if you want to email, email your question to ibtcoordinator at gmail dot com. Have a great week!

Check-In (4)

Check-In is a weekly post every Saturday or Sunday. This check-in post will include all the current tours, in case some of you guys missed some of the posts, who has the book for the tour, updates in the blog, anything in general. This is for the all the members, in case you don't know what's going on.

In General:
IBT is almost turning a month old. We also posted three tours this week. Even greater news, we have 50+ members!

Check-Lists:
I still have to yet send the check-lists for the two following tours; Leaving Gee's Bend by Irene Latham and My Big Nose and Other Natural Disasters, please be on the look out.

Current Tours:

One-Book Tours:
Forget-Her-Nots by Amy Brecount White
Rising Shadow by Jacquelyn Wheeler
Shade by Jeri Smith-Ready
My Invented Life by Lauren Bjorkman
Impossible by Nancy Werlin
Swoon At Your Own Risk by Sydney Salter
My Big Nose And Other Natural Disasters by Sydney Salter
Leaving Gee's Bend by Irene Latham
Of All The Stupid Things by Alexandra Diaz
Prophecy Of The Sisters by Michelle Zink

Two-Book Tours:
Sing Me to Sleep by Angela Morrison
Taken By Storm by Angela Morrison

Reviewers who have a book in their possession:

Rising Shadow by Jacquelyn Wheeler- Sarah from England has the book, she will be sending it by 3/13.
Sing Me To Sleep by Angela Morrison- Haley sent the book to Jenn yesterday so SING should arrive to Jenn in a couple of days.

New tours this week:

Of All The Stupid Things by Alexandra Diaz
Prophecy Of The Sisters by Michelle Zink
Taken By Storm by Angela Morrison

Twitter:
We didn't log in to our twitter account the whole week. Sorry! We will update it really soon. Our twitter account: @intbooktours .

Other Reminders:

• I can't emphasize this enough but so many of you are putting your blog URL's into the Mr Linky's.. PLEASE DO NOT PUT YOUR BLOG URL'S. IF THIS GETS WORSE, WE MIGHT HAVE TO PUT A NEW POLICY ABOUT IT. DO NOT PUT YOUR BLOG URL. IT IS ONLY FOR PEOPLE WHO ALREADY/WILL HAVE A REVIEW FOR THE BOOK. THANK YOU.

Anything else?
Any other questions please comment below and check back a day after, hopefully we will see your comment an give you an answer. Or, if you want to email, email your question to ibtcoordinator at gmail dot com. Have a great week!

Check-In (3)

Check-In is a weekly post every Saturday or Sunday. This check-in post will include all the current tours, in case some of you guys missed some of the posts, who has the book for the tour, updates in the blog, anything in general. This is for the all the members, in case you don't know what's going on.

In General:
We are on our third week. The IBT Coordinator posted two tours this week. We have a lot more tours coming. Also, we have 40+ members which is great, keep them coming!

Check-Lists:
I (IBT Co-Founder/Coordinator) already sent ALL the check-lists/emails to all the tours that are closed for sign-ups! If you did not get it, please email me at ibtcoordinator at gmail dot com.

Current Tours:

One-Book Tours:
Forget-Her-Nots by Amy Brecount White
Rising Shadow by Jacquelyn Wheeler
Shade by Jeri Smith-Ready
My Invented Life by Lauren Bjorkman
Impossible by Nancy Werlin
Swoon At Your Own Risk by Sydney Salter
My Big Nose And Other Natural Disasters by Sydney Salter
Leaving Gee's Bend by Irene Latham

Two-Book Tours:
Sing Me to Sleep by Angela Morrison

Reviewers who have a book in their possession:
We have one member who already received a book! It's for the U.S./CANADA SING ME TO SLEEP by Angela Morrison tour. For that tour,

HALEY

...has the ARC. She will send it to JENN by 3/7.

New tours this week:

My Big Nose And Other Natural Disasters by Sydney Salter

Leaving Gee's Bend by Irene Latham

EXTENSION!:
I have decided to extend the My Invented Life by Lauren Bjorkman tour. Instead of it ending on Feb. 27, it now ends, March 4. PLEASE COMMENT IF YOU ARE WANTING TO PARTICIPATE! We need more entrants for that tour.

Twitter:
Remember, we made a new twitter! Please follow us! User- intbooktours. Link- http://twitter.com/intbooktours. We will follow you back!

Other Reminders:

• Some people, when they sign-up, they do not leave their email address. PLEASE LEAVE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS when you sign up for a tour!
  
• We still have some URL's on the Mr Linky's, please don't put them in! That is not the use for the Mr. Linky. The only reason we have that is for people who have/will review that specific book.
  

Anything else?
Any other questions please comment below and check back a day after, hopefully we will see your comment an give you an answer. Or, if you want to email, email your question to ibtcoordinator at gmail dot com. Have a great week!

Check-In (2)

Check-In is a weekly post every Saturday or Sunday. This check-in post will include all the current tours, in case some of you guys missed some of the posts, who has the book for the tour, updates in the blog, anything in general. This is just so you guys know what's going on.

In General:
Yes, we know, the whole IBT crew was down this week. Sorry about that! Although, we have chosen the participants for (4) tours already. The Forget-Her-Nots, SING, Rising Shadow, and Impossible tour. Check that out, check if your on it! We will be sending out emails soon, hopefully.

Current Tours:

One-Book Tours:

Forget-Her-Nots by Amy Brecount White

Rising Shadow by Jacquelyn Wheeler

Shade by Jeri Smith-Ready

My Invented Life by Lauren Bjorkman

Swoon At Your Own Risk by Sydney Salter

Two-Book Tours:

Impossible by Nancy Werlin

Three-Book Tours:

Sing Me To Sleep by Angela Morrison

New tours this week:

My Invented Life by Lauren Bjorkman

Swoon At Your Own Risk by Sydney Salter

Participants:

Rising Shadow tour-

1. Sarah- England
2. Lynsey- England
   
3. Mari- Norway
4. Sheree- Australia
5. Keysha- Panama

Impossible tour-

1. Nina- Netherlands
2. Mari- Norway
3. Rhiana- UK
4. Lynsey- UK
5. Sarah- England
6. Alaine- Australia

SING tour(s) -
U.S. and Canada tour

1. Haley
2. Jenn
3. Laurie
4. Alyssa
5. Maura (Canada)

International:

1. Mariana- Mexico
2. Sharline- Costa Rica
3. Maria-Venezuela
4. Jo-England
5. Sarah-England
6. Alanna-Scotland
7. Mari-Norway
8. Rhiana- UK
9. Sheree-Australia

Forget-Her-Nots tour-

1. Jennifer- Philippines
   
2. Sheree- Australia
3. Alaine- Australia
4. Rebecca- New Zealand
5. Nina- The Netherlands
6. Mari- Norway
   
7. Jo- England
8. Sarah- England
9. Lynsey- England
10. Sasha- England

Hopefully someone will get a book soon!

Twitter:
Remember, we made a new twitter! Please follow us! User- intbooktours. Link- http://twitter.com/intbooktours. We will follow you back!

Other Info:
- We have been getting some requests for tours lately, we will have a lot more up!
- People have been still putting their book blog URL in the Mr Linky's, PLEASE DO NOT! It makes it harder for us, since we are going to have to delete one every time.

Anything else?
Any other questions please comment below and check back a day after, hopefully we will see your comment an give you an answer. Or, if you want to email, email your question to ibtcoordinator at gmail dot com. Have a great week!

Check-In (1)

Check-In is a new meme that IBT will be starting. Each Saturday or Sunday, we will have a check-in post. This check-in post will include all the current tours, in case some of you guys missed some of the posts, who has the book for the tour, updates in the blog, anything in general. This is just so you guys know what's going on.

In General:
IBT is off to a great start! We have 5 tours so far, and will have a lot more posted in the future.

Current Tours:
-One-Book Tours-
Forget-Her-Nots by Amy Brecount White
Rising Shadow by Jacquelyn Wheeler
Shade by Jeri Smith-Ready

-Two-Book Tours-
Impossible by Nancy Werlin

-Three-Book Tours-
Sing Me to Sleep by Angela Morrison- Remember for this 3 book tour, ONE TOUR WILL BE FOR US AND CANADIAN REVIEWERS ONLY. ONLY FOR THIS TOUR, US AND CANADIAN REVIEWERS DON'T NEED TO SHIP WORLDWIDE! =)

Make sure you guys comment if your interested in any book(s)!

People who currently have a book (for a tour) in their possession:
Since IBT just started posting tours, no one has received a book yet. Maybe in a few weeks from now.

Twitter:
IBT has just made a new twitter account! Our user name is intbooktours. Please follow us! We tweet every time we have a new tour up, this way, you can stay updated too!

Blog Button:
Charlotte from The Book on the Hill was kind enough that she offered to make IBT a blog button!

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It's plain and simple, which IBT wants.

She also was so creative that she had an idea of making a button saying "My book is on tour with International Book Tours." This button, she made for authors. Here's how it looks like:

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This one, it's almost the exact the same thing except for the different background color and the words on the top. The IBT crew loves both of them. Thank you so much to Charlotte! Please feel free to grab the button(s)!

Other Important Info:
-To all members, readers, and participants, when tours start, you will need mailing addresses, deadlines for when you need to send the book, etc.. If you ever have personal questions, or questions about the works of a tour, guidlines, please email ibtcoordinator at gmail dot com. That email is the one who you will be communicating with/to all the time. The email, internationalbooktours at gmail dot com is for bloggers/publishers/publicsits/authors who want to donate a book, authors wanting to be interviewed, feedback, or if you want to talk to the IBT FOUNDER. Please make sure you use the right email. It makes things easier for the IBT crew.

If your wondering why we use two emails, it's because we are two people who manage this book tour blog. By meaning two people, sisters. We go online the same time and we cannot use the same email at the same time. We also need one main email and one email that organizes and coordinates the tours (mailing addresses). We hope this is okay with all of you guys.

You might want to know that: A lot of posts has a contact information part. Whatever email is written there, is the email you should use if you have a question regarding to the post. Hope that helps!

-People have been putting their book blog URL in the Mr. Linky's under each post. Please do not put in your blog URL! This is just for people who have reviewed the book. If they do have a review of the book, they must put the direct link.

A message from IBT:

Your opinion:
We want to know what you guys think of IBT so far. Are we doing well? Is the tour set-up okay? Is it easy to navigate in this blog? Is there anything confusing? We accept any feedback! IBT wants to know what you guys think! We want to know from our members so we can improve the blog more. If you have any feedback, please comment, or if this is something a bit more personal or either a concern that maybe is best if it is private, then please email us at internationalbooktours at gmail dot com. Thanks!

We hope that this new post/meme, Check-In, will help you guys get more updated with IBT!