The Authors Are Rockstars Tour has officially
ended. While we would have loved to have this continue year-round, it’s time to
let those authors go back to writing the books we love so very much.
We are all so amazed, overwhelmed and surprised at
the response we got from authors, bloggers and readers alike. We had no idea
when we started out that it would get as much attention and support. So we are
eternally grateful.
In the end, we had 102 authors and 96 blogs
(including our own) participating in this event. And without each and every one
of them, this would not have been the success it was. And even though there
were just a couple hiccups along the way, for an event as large as this one
was, we definitely consider it a win.
If you haven’t had a chance to catch up with all
102 stops on the tour, CLICK
HERE, for an updated tour schedule with links that go to each and every
stop on the tour. While most of the giveaways will have ended, the posts are so
much fun to read and you won’t want to miss them.
We tried to make this event entertaining and
showcase some phenomenal authors that we love. We hope we achieved that goal.
We tried to match authors with bloggers who
considered them their rockstars and tried to include a variety of authors and
bloggers on this tour. We hope we succeeded in that too.
While all the authors on the tour were ones we
considered rockstars, it was by no means all inclusive of the authors we think
rock! Some authors were unable to participate, some authors may not have
received our invitation – apparently SPAM was not our friend – and some authors
we may not have reached out to because we couldn’t locate their information or
because we had such an overwhelming response to our outreach.
We had hoped for 31 authors, not expecting nearly
that many, so hosting 102 was a dream come true!
We hope you learned something new about your
rockstar authors, hope that you found a few new authors to call rockstars and
hope you had a good time following the tour around this August!
While this was intended as a once-in-a-lifetime
event, who knows what may change in a year….
Oh, and before we forget….
As this tour wraps up, we are also wrapping up the
mega giveaway we included as part of this month-long event. Stay tuned for the
winners’ announcement post next week.
To all of those we owe thanks to….
First and foremost we have to thank every single
author for generously volunteering their time and agreeing to be a part of our
event. Without them this wouldn’t have been even close to the huge success it
was. Their posts were the perfect mix of fun, entertaining, informative and
exciting to read. With a tour that consisted of top ten lists, vlogs,
interviews, character interviews, excerpts, teasers and more, visiting all the
stops on tour provided hours of enjoyment.
And it put some amazing books and authors with
upcoming titles on our radars.
We also want to thank them for their generous
donations of books and swag and even a character naming. The authors’ time was
all we asked for, so their volunteering to give away these prizes was above and
beyond our wildest expectations. This event was meant to showcase them not to
have them reach into their pockets.
And of course we have to thank the generosity of
Harlequin TEEN for supporting each of their authors by donating books and
spreading the word about our event and Entangled Publishing for their eBook
donations. Both publishers’ support of their authors was an amazing surprise
and one we are so incredibly appreciative of.
But they weren’t the only publishers we have to
thank for their support. HarperTeen, Macmillan Children’s Books and SimonTEEN
were incredibly supportive for spreading the word throughout the month about
not only their authors on tour, but the tour as a whole.
And then there are the bloggers. Without their
passion and love for the authors they call rockstars we wouldn’t have had an
event either. It was their glowing and gushing words of support for the authors
they hosted that made visiting each stop on this tour awesome.
We cannot thank them enough for signing up for the
event, for writing such rockin’ posts for their authors, for donating their
time and efforts to help support this event and even for donating prizes in
support of their authors. They, too, are the rockstars of this event and we
couldn’t have done it without them!
Last, but not least, we have to thank those
readers who visited the stops, who left comments, who discovered new authors,
who fell more in love with the authors they did know, and who also supported
our event by just being there.
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And from one tour host to another, I would like to
thank both Jaime and Patricia for co-hosting this event with me.
Rachel, thank you so very much for making this
event even possible! This was your dream, your idea and without that initial
email that landed in my inbox I never would have thought of it.
Also thank you for making the graphics and or
purchasing them they are gorgeous! And your mad skills at coordinating an event
this size absolutely blows my mind! I have no idea how you did the original
pairings late one night while I was sleeping. I never would have been able to
do this without you. And your generosity with the giveaways has been amazing!
Thanks for keeping me sane BFF love you!
Patricia, thank you so much for your help in
making this event a success. Your assistance in matching authors and bloggers
and your research into finding matches for the new author adds was invaluable.
And thank you so very much for spreading the word about the event and visiting
the stops on the tour each day.
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Well, we guess that’s about it. If there is anyone
we forgot to include in our thanks we are so very sorry. It’s been a whirlwind
but we hope that we included you all!
Stay tuned for next week’s prize announcement
posts on both blogs. But for now….
It’s a wrap.
In less than two days we'll be kicking off the 2nd Annual Authors Are Rockstars Tour. We have some seriously amazing authors on this year's tour. But the blog hosts we have for this year's event are also awesome.
