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It truly warms my heart that so many people are interested in reading my stories and sharing my recipes. When you go on a virtual or online book tour, you can stay in the comfort of your home but hop virtually from blog to blog, podcast to podcast, and social media event to social media event to meet your target audience in cyberspace. Mac and linux support are conceivable, but we are waiting for someone to implement a. First prize is a collection of paperbacks, personalized and signed by me. After my last several reads, this one was welcomed. There will be guest posts, excerpts, interviews and fabulous prizes. The nasa worldwind javascript sdk webww includes the library and examples for creating geobrowser web applications and for embedding a 3d globe in html5 web pages. Facebook is showing information to help you better understand the purpose of a page. These tours are sometimes called book blog tours or virtual author tours, or abbreviated as vbt.
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