DISQUS

I'm glad you were able to bring a GIRL into your family in this way!

I can't wait to go and be able to encourage others to jump and in and help -- perhaps for the first time.

Love your new look here!!

I love reading this side of things. I write a weekly review column on 5Minutesformom.com (with a 6 Page Rank), so I work with some blog tours but with often directly with publishers and authors.

One thing that I've noticed is that word of mouth takes a while. For example, I just recently posted on my personal blog a followup to a children's series--4 more books had been released, in addition to the first two, which I had reviewed months ago. People keep saying "I've heard of these books, and they sound great!" because the word of mouth has sunk in.

People rarely buy a book I've reviewed immediately (through my amazon link at least), but sometimes I'll see it come through a month or two later.

I just posted a review of a book today on 5M4M that I had done on my site in conjunction with a 30 site tour. Overwhelmingly, people are commenting, "I remember seeing this book around and I'm interested."

I would be curious to see if more buy it now.

I don't know if this makes sense, but my point is that there's no way to track sales based on the word of mouth. People could walk into a bookstore in two months, see the familiar cover and buy the book.

I loved HEB when I lived in Houston (but they don't have them up here in CT now). That was a great article--thanks for the link.