Authors ARE Rockstars Tour Stops

We are so excited to finally be able to announce the line-up for the AUTHORS ARE ROCKSTARS TOUR! While we still have a few stops available on the tour, we wanted to post the full tour now so that you can see just who is on tour and when and where they will be appearing so you can mark your calendars.

There are currently 101 stops on the tour this August, way more than we ever anticipated joining the tour, but as there are so many authors that are rockstars we aren’t really surprised.

We can’t wait for the tour to kick-off on August 1st as we have seen some seriously great questions, guest post ideas and top ten list topics for our rockstar authors on tour. And we even got a peek at a few reasons why these bloggers think their authors are such rockstars.

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We hope you will join in the fun, follow the tour and see just what each of these bloggers thinks about the rockstar authors they are hosting!

And be sure to check back before August 1st as we will be updating the tour schedule below with any new authors that have joined the tour or any changes to tour dates or stops.

The Tour

August 1st
Tour Kick-off Posts at Fiktshun and Two Chicks On Books
Karsten Knight stops at Fiktshun
Jus Accardo stops at Two Chicks On Books

August 2nd
Lissa Price stops at- Two Chicks On Books
Alexander Gordon Smith stops at Jean Book Nerd
Stacia Ward Kehoe stops at Dizneee's World of Books

August 3rd
Suzanne Young stops at Chick Loves Lit
Gabrielle Zevin stops at Kaitlyn in Bookland
Rachel Harris stops at Hackeroo’s Reviews

August 4th
Scott Tracey stops at Bookalicious
Susan Dennard stops at Paranormal & Urban Fantasy Reviews and Goodies
Jessica Spotswood stops at Narratively Speaking

August 5th
Michelle Gagnon stops at Fiktshun
Jackie Morse Kessler stops at Books With Bite
Ann Redisch Stampler stops at Booking It With Hayley G

August 6th
Gena Showalter stops at My Para-Hangover
Cayla Kluver stops at Catching Books
Jody Gehrman stops at Epic Book Nerd
August 7th
Bethany Griffin stops at The Bookish Brunette
Lauren Oliver stops at Fictitious Delicious
Anna Carey stops at Good Choice Reading

August 8th
Jordan Dane stops at Sarah’s Books & Life
Claire LaZebnik stops at Peace, Love, Teen Fiction
Melissa de la Cruz stops at Debbie’s World of Books

August 9th
Tiffany Truitt stops at The Bookaholic
Heather Anastasiu stops at Falling For YA
Amy Kathleen Ryan stops at Bookshelvers Anonymous
Alyxandra Harvey stops at Bookpics

August 10th
Leah Clifford stops at Books Over Boys
Inara Scott stops at Smiling_Ina’s Bookish Corner
Rachel Cohn stops at Justin's Book Blog

August 11th
CJ Redwine stops at Bibliognome
Jodi Meadows stops at Librarian Mouse
Stephanie Thomas stops at My 5 Monkeys
Fiona Paul stops at Fiktshun

August 12th
Sarwat Chadda stops at Page Turners
Courtney Summers stops at A Good Addiction
Mary Lindsey stops at IB Book Blogging
Kate Avelynn stops at Shortie Says

August 13th
Kim Harrington stops at Geek Chic
Saundra Mitchell stops at Poisoned Rationality
Suzanne Lazear stops at What the Cat Read

August 14th
Lisa Desrochers stops at Emilie’s Book World
Brodi Ashton stops at Emily’s Reading Room
Sarah Beth Durst stops at Winter Haven Books

August 15th
Chloe Neill stops at A Book Obsession
Emmy Laybourne stops at Proud Book Nerd
T.M. Goeglein stops at Book Briefs
Marianna Baer stops at Tsk, Tsk, what to read?

August 16th
Rachel Vincent stops at Nina Reads
Courtney Allison Moulton stops at The Book Cellar
Jennifer L. Armentrout stops at Confessions of a Bookaholic

August 17th
Jennifer Bosworth stops at The Readers Antidote
Dan Krokos stops at Jenuine Cupcakes
Becca Fitzpatrick stops at Katie's Book Blog
August 18th
Gretchen McNeil stops at YA Book Queen
Michelle Zink stops at Mercurial Musings
Gina Damico stops at Lisa Loves Literature
Jennifer Castle stops at Little Shelf

August 19th
Wendy Higgins stops at Stuck In Books
Elizabeth Norris stops at Literary Exploration
Veronica Rossi stops at Singing & Reading in the Rain

August 20th
Lisa Stasse stops at Two Chicks On Books
Robin LaFevers stops at In the Best Worlds
JA Souders stops at The Book Goddess
Elizabeth Miles stops at Book Twirps

August 21st
Julie Kagawa stops at Starting the Next Chapter
Rae Carson stops at The Book Swarm
Tahereh Mafi stops at Brooke Reports

August 22nd
Lesley Livingston stops at The Ravenous Reader
Ingrid Paulson stops at The YA Sisterhood
Talia Vance stops at Magical Urban Fantasy Reads
August 23rd
Cara Lynn Shultz stops at The Reading Geek
Colleen Houck stops at Making the Grade
CC Hunter stops at Lady Reader’s Bookstuff
Kelly Keaton stops at The Bookish Type

August 24th
Victoria Schwab stops at Moonlight Book Reviews
Dan Wells stops at A Life Bound by Books
Mike Mullin stops at Xpresso Reads

August 25th
Kimberly Derting stops at Avery’s Book Nook
Julia Karr stops at Wholly Books
Carrie Harris stops at The Bursting Bookshelf

August 26th
Lisa Burstein stops at I’m a Book Shark
Lisa and Laura Roecker stop at Gypsy Book Reviews
Miranda Kenneally stops at Paper Cuts

August 27th
Cynthia Hand stops at The Starrey-eyed Review
Sara Zarr stops at The Fake Steph
Simone Elkeles stops at YA Reads
Amber Kizer stops at Belle Books
Michelle Hodkin stops at Word Spelunking

August 28th
Marissa Meyer stops at Fiction Freak
Tara Fuller stops at Tater’s Tall Tails
Victoria Scott stops at Mostly YA Book Obsessed
Sarah Crossan stops at Moonlight Gleam's Bookshelf

August 29th
Jeri Smith-Ready stops at Bookhounds
Chloe Jacobs stops at The Reviews News
Melissa West stops at Stories & Sweeties

August 30th
Michelle Rowen/Morgan Rhodes stops at The Book Hookup
Sarah J. Maas stops at Ink Scratchers
Katy Longshore stops at A Little Shelf of Heaven

August 31st
Maria V. Snyder stops at Two Chicks On Books
Tessa Gratton stops at Fiktshun
Danny Marks stops at Citrus Reads

September 1st
Tour Wrap-up Posts at Fiktshun and Two Chicks On Books

Sign Up For The Authors Are Rockstars Tour!!!!!!

Well, it’s finally here. It’s SIGN-UP day for the Authors Are Rockstars Tour! We are so super excited that there are so many of you who have already expressed interest in being a part of our tour. Both author and blogger response has been absolutely amazing and we can’t thank you all enough!

We hope to make this event great and really let those authors we love shine throughout the month of August.

And while we’d love to have every single awesome author and every single blogger be a part of the tour, we are only three bloggers with two blogs and we only have one month for the event.

We are beginning the sign-ups today, although we are still awaiting response from some of the authors we’ve reached out to. And we will update this post each day during the sign-up process with any new authors that are on board.

If you see your favorites on the list already, you should sign up now! If you want to hold out to see who else might be on board you can wait. Signing up early does not give you preferential treatment. But sign-ups will close at Midnight, Eastern, on Sunday, July 15^th.

Be sure to look at the list of authors participating carefully before you make your choice. While many of the author post types and dates are still to be announced, please note the authors who have already committed to a date and post type or those who have pre-prepared interviews.

Here are the authors (in alphabetical order by first name) currently on tour

Alexander Gordon Smith – Interview Post (Either an interview or character interview)

Alyxandra Harvey – Guest Post (Top Ten Favorite Books)


Amy Kathleen Ryan- Interview Post


Anna Carey- Top Ten Post


Ann Redisch Stampler- *Will include an author donated giveaway*

Bethany Griffin

Brodi Ashton

Cara Lynn Shultz - *Will include a publisher donated book giveaway-North America*


Carrie Harris

Cayla Kluver - *Will include a publisher donated book giveaway-North America*


CC Hunter

Chloe Jacobs – *Will include an author donated giveaway*

Chloe Neil – August 15th- Top 10 Post

CJ Redwine – August 11th

Claire LaZebnik


Colleen Houck


Courtney Allison Moulton- *Will include an author donated book giveaway-USA*

Courtney Summers – Pre-prepared Interview

Cynthia Hand


Daniel Marks- Youtube Q&A *Will include an author donated giveaway*


Dan Krokos- Interview

Dan Wells


Elizabeth Miles

Elizabeth Norris- *Will include an author donated giveaway*

Emmy Laybourne – Guest Post


Gabrielle Zevin


Gena Showalter- *Will include a publisher donated book giveaway-North America*


Gina Damico- Top 10 List *Will include an author donated giveaway*


Heather Anastasiu

Inara Scott


Ingrid Paulson


JA Souders-

Jackie Morse Kessler

Jennifer Bosworth


Jennifer Castle

Jennifer L. Armentrout - Author or Character Interview *Will include a publisher (Entangled Books Only) donated eBook giveaway*

Jeri Smith-Ready


Jessica Spotswood- **Will include an author donated signed book giveaway**

Jodi Meadows

Jordan Dane - August 8th *Will include an author donated giveaway* and/or *Will include a publisher donated book giveaway-North America*

Julia Karr

Julie Kagawa – Character Interview *Will include a publisher donated book giveaway-North America*

Jus Accardo - *Will include a publisher donated eBook giveaway*

Karsten Knight


Katherine Longshore-

Kate Avelynn - *Will include a publisher donated eBook giveaway*

Kimberly Derting

Kim Harrington – Pre-prepared Interview

Lauren Oliver – Pre-prepared Interview


Leah Clifford- Interview or Character Interview

Lesley Livingston

Lisa Burstein - *Will include a publisher donated eBook giveaway*

Lisa Desrochers


Lisa and Laura Roecker

Lissa Price – August 2^nd

Maria V. Snyder - *Will include a publisher donated book giveaway-North America*


Marissa Meyer- Guest Post

Mary Lindsey

Melissa de la Cruz – Pre-prepared Interview

Melissa West

Michelle Rowen/ Morgan Rhodes - *Will include a publisher (from her Harlequin Teen Books) donated book giveaway-North America*


Michelle Zink


Mike Mullin

Miranda Keneally- *Will include an author donated book giveaway*


Rachel Cohn


Rachel Harris- *Will include an author donated giveaway*

Rachel Vincent - *Will include a publisher donated book giveaway-North America*

Rae Carson – August 21^st – *Will include an author donated giveaway of a paperback of The Girl of Fire and Thorns*

Robin LaFevers- Author donated giveaway

Sarah Beth Durst - Pre-prepared Interview


Sara Zarr


Sarah J. Maas

Sarwat Chadda


Saundra Mitchell- Vespertine Playlist

Scott Tracey- Author donated book giveaway

Simone Elkeles-Pre-prepared Interview


Stephanie Thomas

Susan Dennard


Suzanne Laezar- Author donated giveaway


Suzanne Young- Author Interview

Tahereh Mafi – Character Interview

Talia Vance

Tara Fuller

Tessa Gratton – Guest Post (must be unique) – *Will include an author donated giveaway of The Curiosities anthology and a finished copy of The Blood Keeper*

T.M. Goeglein

Tiffany Truitt - *Will include a publisher donated eBook giveaway*

Veronica Rossi

Victoria Schwab – Interview or Vlog Interview


Victoria Scott

Wendy Higgins- * Will include an author donated giveaway*


Authors - If you've received an email and would like to participate we would love to have you on board, there are still a few stops available after August 15th! 


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With the new authors added bloggers you will be allowed ONE chance to change your original picks. If you want to make a change to your original picks, please email us at the address above.

The Tour

• The tour will run from August 1^st through August 31^st. Each day of the month will have one, two or three tour stops.
• The tour will start at both Fiktshun and Two Chicks On Books and end on both our blogs. We will have a kick-off post + giveaway with all the stops and we will also each have posts dedicated to authors that are our rockstars. And on the final day of the tour, we will have a wrap-up post along with posts for the final two authors we will be spotlighting.
• All the rest of the days will be for you to show your love and appreciation for those authors you call rockstars.

The Rules, Requirements and other details

Rules

• You must complete the sign-up form in order to be considered.
• Signing up in no way guarantees you will be chosen for a tour stop. (We’re so sorry that we won’t be able to include everyone!)
• Being accepted as a tour stop does not guarantee you will get your first choice of author.
• If you are chosen you must respond with your acceptance and with your stop preferences and/or interview questions or guest post topics within 24 hours after notification. If you do not respond we will be forced to choose someone else.

Requirements

• To be considered to host any author you must have reviewed their books. (See review requirements immediately below.) And if you have rated their books, ratings cannot be less than four stars, unless you provide a compelling reason why you should still be considered. Remember, you’re picking authors you think are rockstars!
• To host an author with three or more books published, you must have reviewed at least two of their books. (We will be checking your blogs and Goodreads.)
• To host an author with one or two published books, you must have reviewed at least one of their books.
• To host an author whose books have yet to be published, you must be anxiously awaiting the book’s release and have either posted about that book on your blog or provide a compelling reason in the form below.

Other details

• Selections will be made based on a number of criteria including the best match-up between author and blogger, blogger’s overall reviews, and blogger’s reputation and trustworthiness.
• Blog following, page views or Twitter following will not be a deciding factor in the selection process.
• Blog longevity, number of reviews, types of reviews - (bash-free is a must) – will be considered when making our selections.
• Blogger “friends” will not be given preference. It’s about making the best matches between authors and bloggers on the tour.
• Writing in an author does not guarantee that author will be included on the tour. They may have already been contacted and either are unavailable or have yet to respond, or all tour stops may already have been filled.
• Blogger participation announcements will be made both by email and in a post on both Fiktshun and Two Chicks On Books on Wednesday, July 18^th.

Giveaways: For tour stops that will be hosting an author or publisher donated giveaway prize, there can be no mandatory tasks aside from leaving a blog comment. And there can be up to two extra entry opportunities. As a thank you to the authors you are hosting you may want to make those extra entries about the authors but it is not mandatory.

There will be no requirements/restrictions for tour stops that choose to host their own giveaways.

Dates to know

Tour dates: August 1^st – 31^st

Sign-up ends: July 15^th

Blogger announcements: July 18^th

Acceptance and post requirements needed by: July 19^th

Once again, thank you so much for wanting to join us on this tour to share your love for those amazing authors that wow you and for helping to make this event rock!

While we won’t be able to include every one of you, we love that you want to be a part of the event and support it. Each and every one of you rocks, too!

We can’t wait to read your responses to the questions in the sign-up forms and see just why each and every one of those authors are rockstars to you!

Sign-ups are now closed! Stay tuned for our author/blogger pairings and we are still accepting authors! :D