Austenprose PR

Thank you for your interest in Austenprose PR, an online marketing service specializing in historical fiction, historical romance, and historical mystery books. We curate influencer campaigns such as pre-publication publicity and online blog tours / virtual book tours to match readers / reviewers with your new or backlist titles to generate exposure, reviews, and author authority in your book’s genre.

Prepublication Campaigns

Reaching your readers is critical to the success of your book. Publisher and authors are now beginning their campaigns earlier than ever. We can help you connect the influencers who can stir up early interest in your book to build confidence and prompt pre-sales.

Blog Tours / Virtual Book Tours

A virtual book tour, or a blog tour, is a publicity campaign involving online influencers. Our goal is to introduce your book to readers by showcasing it on blogs and social media platforms. The tour has a set timeline, usually two to three weeks, and is scheduled closely before and after the book’s launch date. Each day on the tour includes either a spotlight, excerpt, interview, article, or a review of your book hosted by an influencer. Virtual book tours are a great way to increase exposure, generate reviews, grow your readership, and build your author brand.

Author Coaching

We can advise you on all aspects of your online presence and author branding including website and blog design, content, social media, and marketing campaigns.

Who We Work With

Austenprose PR has been curating online book tours for nine years and has worked with all five major US publishing houses, mid-sized, boutique, and indie authors. By focusing on the merits of the book, we pitch it to historical influencers who we feel will be a great match.

Featured 2024 Tours:

The Ladies Rewrite the Rules, by Suzanne Allain (Berkley Romance)
The Lily of Ludgate Hill, by Mimi Matthews (Berkley Romance)
The Berlin Letters, by Katherine Reay (Harper Muse)
Hidden Yellow Stars, by Rebecca Connolly (Shadow Mountain Publishing)
What the Mountains Remember, by Joy Callaway (Harper Muse)
The British Booksellers, by Kristy Cambron (Thomas Nelson)
The Girl from the Hidden Forest, by Hannah Linder (Barbour Books)
Every Time We Say Goodbye, by Natalie Jenner (St. Martin’s Press)
An Art Lover’s Guide to Paris and Murder, by Dianne Freeman (Kensington)
Beyond Ivy Walls, by Rachel Fordham (Thomas Nelson)
The Naturalist’s Daughter, by Tea Cooper (Thomas Nelson)
Murder in Highbury, by Vanessa Kelly (Kensington)

Who Will Be on Your Tour?

We have a large list of quality online influencers who are bloggers, bookstagramers, and creatives on social media who are passionate about reading and sharing with their followers.

Tour Curation & Goals

We customize the tour based on your needs and pitch to those who are a good match to your book. Our goal is to generate presales, book buzz, reviews, and sales.

Advance Reading Copies

We coordinate the distribution of ARCs (advance readers copies) in either print, digital, or audio with the publisher’s publicist or the author directly.

Tour Graphics & Media Kit

The tour participants receive a detailed media kit which includes an information packet about the book and the author, book tour graphic, an author headshot, and the book cover.

Debut Authors

Your road to publication was tough and their is yet more to travail before your “darling child” hits book stores. As a neophyte in the book publishing world there are many things you need to know for your book to succeed. Let us ease your anxiety about becoming a debut author by coaching you through the process. We take particular pride in our past success with debut authors such as Natalie Jenner, The Jane Austen Society (2020), which became an international best seller, Finola Austin, Bronte’s Mistress (2020), and Hannah Linder, Beneath his Silence (2022).

Requirements & Terms

Dependent upon availability, we need a minimum of three month’s advance notice to book a tour, access to a digital distribution service such a NetGalley or BookFunnel for the participants to download a copy of the book, and if available, print books to be shipped directly from the publisher’s warehouse or by the author.