That means it is time to start planning your Halloween season promotions.

September and October are hot sales times for paranormal romance, urban fantasy, horror, paranormal erotica, and cozy mysteries with paranormal elements.

Bewitching Book Tours is offering a fun Halloween Themed Book Tour option open to all authors who have a book featuring supernatural characters, terrifying tales, haunted homes, wicked or wonderful witches, vampires, werewolves, demons and more.

This is a Halloween tour option, not a group event where your book could get lost in the crowd of other books.

This special tour package offers authors individual tours combined with the cross promotion of an overall Halloween event, a group Rafflecopter, and a group Facebook party. 

Yes, each author receives their own Halloween themed tour during Bewitching Book Tours’ Haunted Halloween Spooktacular from October 1-31



Each participating author will receive:

* 1 Month Halloween Theme Virtual Book Tour (retail value $145)

* Custom Tour Banner and Instagram Graphic

* Professional Media Kit and Social Media Script with Custom Hashtags

* Option to Offer Review Copies

* Group Rafflecopter for Cross Promo

* Time Slot in Multi-Author Halloween Facebook Party

* Inclusion in October Book Fair on BewitchingBookTours.com



To participate you’ll need to provide details for one book you wish to promote including a high resolution jpeg of your cover and an excerpt. 

You’ll also need to provide 2 Halloween theme guest blogs (which can be recipes, music playlists, costume ideas or DIY tutorial, etc- anything Halloween related), short Halloween flash fiction story, or a Halloween poem. 

For the Facebook Party you’ll need quizzes, games and a few small prizes for your author party block (ebooks, $5 gift cards, etc).

The early bird fee for this promotion is $99 per author for one book. If you wish to promote additional books each additional book is $50.

This event has a limited number of spaces available. Payment is required at time of sign up to reserve your space.

Paperless Post is a new digital way to send invitations. 

Their technology makes it feel like the real thing. You get to create a custom invite,  envelope, and even choose the stamp- you can coordinate everything. 

You also get an event page to go with the invite.

When you send the invite your guests will receive an email with the fancy envelope image adorned with the stamp you selected.



The event page has the location, date and time of the event including a map. 

There's also a guest list and a place where the host can post messages and photos. Guests can also leave comments.

They have invitations and flyers for everything- weddings, bridal showers, parties, baby showers, professional events, summer BBQ's, of course I went straight to the Halloween invites and was not disappointed. 

Paperless Post has a great selection of Halloween invitation styles from cute and whimsical to the vintage style above which is called Memento Mori.

I love Killer Halloween which is perfect for the a Slasher Movie Theme.



Bat Bottles is cute for a Spooky cocktail party.



Check them out, there have many Halloween options to choose from. I had a hard time picking just one.

Some are free, some start at 2 coins to customize. Some customization costs more than others, some options are free.  

Memento Mori is 6 coins per invitation sent. 

Coins are 25 for $10, 100 for $20, 200 for $30, 400 for $50, and 1000 for $100.

Creating the invitation was relatively easy once I got the hang of their program. 

One thing that was weird is that I had to change font sizes on each individual word, I'm used to doing it by lines so that threw me off at first. I also did not like that I could not just grab the text and move it where I wanted. It seems fixed in place. You can play with font size, letter, and line spacing but that only does so much. I wanted to move things around a bit but I couldn't find an option for that so I did the best I could with their design software. 

I will definitely play with things more and try other invitations.

One element I really wish they would add is an embed option. I would love to create the invite and embed it in my website. I would pay extra coins for that option.

This is something authors would really appreciate having available for book release parties and book signing events. 

I would love to embed this fancy invite on my events page as a gif showing the envelope, then the invite coming out of the envelope. If guests are interested they click it and it takes them to the event page on Paperless Post.

Overall I really loved finding and customizing a Halloween invitation on Paperless Post. This is something I will definitely use in future for events and parties.

Disclaimer: This review was sponsored by Paperless Post. 

Starting in June all tours will now include social media scripts for posting on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc.

In addition to the tour banner there will be an Instagram graphic for bookstagrammers.

So no blog, no problem! Hosts can post on social media.

Perfect for book lovers that don't have a blog.

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You'll be sent details about all of our upcoming tours and review opportunities. 

a Rafflecopter giveaway

• 2 days of social media promotion on all Bewitching Book Tours social media networks 
• Promotion on Bewitching Book Tours Blog
• Newsletter Blast
• Creation of 1 graphic teaser
•  1 month sidebar advertising on Roxannes Realm and Fang-tastic Books

• 5 days of social media promotion on all Bewitching Book Tours social media networks 
• Promotion on Bewitching Book Tours Blog
• Newsletter Blast
• Creation of 1 graphic teaser
• 2 months sidebar advertising on Roxannes Realm and Fang-tastic Books

• Quickie deal for authors on a budget- have your new release, sale, or free book announcement sent out to all of our newsletter subscribers 
• Receive a featured post on Bewitching Book Tours Blog
• 1 Day Social Media Blast on Facebook and Twitter
• Social Media Graphic

Do you have a book that you’d like to put in front of readers this holiday season?

Put your book in the gift buying spotlight with the Deck the Halls Bewitching Book Tours Holiday Extravaganza.

From December 3- 21 you will be featured with daily (Mon-Fri) Bewitching Tour Stops, Social Media Promotion and with a multi-author Facebook party in mid December

To participate you’ll need to provide details for one book you wish to promote including a high resolution jpeg of your cover and a short excerpt.

You’ll also need to provide 2-3 Winter Holiday themed guest blogs, short holiday flash fiction stories or poems. 

Your holiday materials may feature Christmas, Yule, the Winter Solstice, Hanukkah, Kwanza, or whatever winter holiday you choose to celebrate with your writing. 

Guest blogs may be recipes, DIY Tutorials, Holiday Music Playlists, Top Ten Gift Lists,  holiday party planning guides, or anything related to the holidays.

For the Facebook Party you’ll need quizzes, games and a few small prizes for your author party block.

The fee for this promotion is $75 per author for one book, $50 for additional books by same author.

Spots are limited.