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- The Prized Blog Tour, Code, and Chat October 21, 2011
by Caragh M. O’BrienTHE TOUR: These days, a blog tour involves a writer shrinking down to the size of a subatomic particle and whizzing through the internet wires to pop up through other people’s computers, visit for a while, and whiz back. It’s very high tech and very slimming. The fact is, a couple years ago, I’d never heard of a blog tour and I had to go look it up in an online dictionary because no paper dictionaries had heard of one, either.
I would still be pretty much in the dark except for my do-or-die publicist at Macmillan, Kathryn Bhirud (née Hurley), who lined up sixteen unbelievably cool bloggers to interview me on their sites. The interviews begin next Monday, October 24th at Mundie Moms, and will progress to different sites, one a day, leading up to the release of Prized on November 8th. Interested readers can follow me from blog to blog for a couple weeks, sort of like trick-or-treating from house to house, but not really because there are no costumes or candy and we’re not second graders, much as we might like to be.
The full schedule of the blog tour is listed below, and to add a quirky bit of fun, Rachael of the Book Muncher challenged me to come up with a code that readers could decipher along the way.
Date
Blog
21-Oct
24-Oct
25-Oct
26-Oct
27-Oct
28-Oct
29-Oct
30-Oct
31-Oct
1-Nov
2-Nov
3-Nov
4-Nov
5-Nov
6-Nov
7-Nov
8-Nov
THE CODE:
The Prized Blog Tour Code is intended to be a charming amusement, not torture, so if you’re the sort of person who deplores enigmas, please know that it’s quite all right with me if you skip this thing entirely. It’s really fine. No one’s ever going to check.
But, if you want to play, try this:
1. On each day of the blog tour, a single letter will be given at the end of each post. (It will be clearly labeled like this: Prized Code #20: Z.)
2. Convert each letter using the key in the middle of page 201 of Birthmarked. (If your book is not handy because you’ve already returned it to the library in a trusty manner, the key is also available on my website.
3. The sixteen converted letters will spell out a secret message.
That’s it. That’s the whole thing. There’s no extra prize. You just get the one-time, real-life thrill of deciphering the secret message for the Prized Blog Tour Code and trying to guess what it says as it evolves. The last piece of the code and the solution will be provided by Rachael in my final stop of the blog tour at The Book Muncher on November 8th, so you can check if you have it correct.
THE CHAT: On the day the blog tour wraps up and Prized is released (Tuesday, November 8), my blogger friends and I will meet up virtually in an interactive chat on Goodreads. Here’s what is great: you can join in, too! We’ll be coming and going all day as we have the chance, quipping and laughing as we’re wont to do, and I’ll be sure to be there in the evening around 9:00 p.m. EST. Friends, fans, and followers are all welcome to drop in and participate. If you don’t know Goodreads yet, it’s a free and easy site for book lovers. You can find us in advance here.
Check back here on MacTeenBooks for info on other bonuses, like “Tortured,” the free e-story that’s coming soon, and be sure to leave a comment if you have any questions or suggestions. Special thanks to Kathryn, who really has been a dynamo through all of this.
I’m off to practice my shrinking! May the blog tour begin!
- The Girl is Signing! August 29, 2011
If you’re in Houston, TX on Saturday, September 3rd this week, come out and meet the fabulous author of The Girl is Murder! Kathryn Miller Haines will be signing at Murder By The Book at 4:30 PM.
