Friday, August 31, 2018

Silver Dagger Book Tours - Celebration and GIVEAWAY!



Silver Dagger Book Tours is now 2 years old this month!


Believe it or not, Silver Dagger Book Tours was created and is mainly operated by just one person!
I used to be just an internet crawler looking for new books and giveaways and stumbled upon book tours. After indulging in many dozens of tours, I decided I'd like to try my hand at blogging in my spare time (with absolutely no blogging experience at all!) I was a book blogger for several companies (and still am) and stuck with it for over 3 years. In that time, I learned all the ropes and became a pretty efficient blogger, but there was still something missing- I wanted to make my posts stand out a bit! So, I started creating small graphics like “about the book” and the other standard graphics that you see in all my tours nowadays and started jazzing my posts up.
I became pregnant with my second child in the fall of 2015 and me and my hubby decided to try to purchase our first home finally, so I quit my waitressing job to pack up everything for the move and never looked back!
It took several months of trying to get the ball rolling and was quite difficult at first to get authors to tour with me. Thus, I had an idea to let everybody pay what they can comfortably afford instead of set rates as I thought what some other companies charged were just outrageous!
Since then, I have done over 1000 tours and worked with hundreds of amazing authors – many who come back for repeat tours! I have 2-3 tours kick off every weekday with occasional tours on the weekends and EVERY tour is required to have a giveaway so readers can gain a little something and have fun while they enjoy learning about new books.
I have an absolutely amazing group of bloggers that share my tours on their sites and really couldn't have gotten this far without their continued support and would like to thank each and every one of them! Ya'll are amazing! I also have two assistants that help me check links and keep up with blogger activity – Janet, who's been with me over a year, and Laurie, who is a new addition. Ya'll ladies are spectacular and I couldn't do it without you!
Absolutely everything else is completely run solely by me though and I really enjoy organizing tours and helping new authors get discovered. I don't discriminate and host ALL fictional genres in ALL age ranges as me and my bloggers have a broad range of readers that enjoy many different genres.
After two years of astronomical tours, I am going stronger than ever now and growing on a daily basis with plans to continue hosting tours for many many years!

If you are an author interested in booking a tour with me, you can see a general FAQ page and booking HERE!


If you are a blogger interested in joining some of my tours, you can see my current sign ups HERE!
And sign up for email invites HERE!





A third generation local of the historic town of Fredericksburg, TX, I was born and raised among the rolling hills of the Texas Hill Country where the beauty of the landscape is breathtaking and town is  famous for the Main Street historic shopping district, the best peaches in the world, wildflowers and wine. I really can't imagine living anywhere else!
A country girl through and through, I grew up hunting, fishing and digging for Indian artifacts, all the while enjoying the many rivers and swimming holes around town. I'm a stay at home mom with three beautiful boys, ages 9, 2, and 1 that encompass my entire world!
A bookaholic from birth, I have always had a deep passion for reading and spend many late nights devouring books into the wee hours of the morning. My “real” book collection numbers over 3000 books and take up an entire small room in our house with custom bookshelves built by my husband that I call my “book cave”. I've been building this collection since my childhood and will keep on adding to it for the rest of my life. Of course, I also have a similar collection of ebooks as well as I finally went digital a few years ago.
In my spare time, I enjoy reading, playing with my kids, doing DIY renovation projects with my husband, cooking, and relaxing on my back porch with a good cup of coffee while I watch the massive axis deer herd come through the yard.









94 comments:

  1. I see you have been a bookaholic since birth. I remember reading as a young girl and read Charles Dickens, "A Christmas Carol" when I was 9 years old. While traveling as a young military child with my parents I would always read on car trips to new Army bases.

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  2. My favorite book is Charlie and Chocolate Factory. I also love the original movie as well. I wish someone would recreate a theme park modeled after this book/movie.

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  3. My favorite author is Sue Grafton and her A to Z mystery series of books.

    abfantom at yahoo dot com

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  4. My favorite author currently is Jessica Strawser. I am enjoying her new book Not That I Could Tell

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  5. My favorite book is Wicked by Gregory Maguire.

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  6. Reading was my favorite pastime as a child. I remember enjoying the original Grimm's Fairy Tales. I don't think my parents had any idea how dark they were, but I loved reading them.

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  7. Your story is so inspirational about how you got started into blogging! I don't think I could ever do it, but I really admire successful bloggers
    Ashley C
    Addictedtorodeo at gmail dot com

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  8. My favorite book is Firefly Lane. It brings you on an emotional roller coaster and the reader can really connect to the characters

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  9. My favorite author is danielle Steel

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  10. My Favorite Author is Stephen King...and his son is a close 2nd! :)

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  11. My favorite book of all time is Pride and Prejudice.

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  12. I have lot's of favorite books, I can't pick just one :)

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  13. The Mouse and the Motorcycle--a children's novel written by Beverly Cleary

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  14. I love to read mysteries and romance books in General!!!

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  15. Wow, truly thank you for all of the work you do for Silver Dagger Book Tours! It is amazing that you have been so devoted, but then again it is certainly something worth being passionate about. My favorite book ever, Jane Eyre. I even introduced my wife to the book when we were merely starting to date.

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  16. congrats! i love your blog and book tours! keep up the great work!

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  17. I am loving anything these days by Louise Penny! Think she is great!

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  18. Congratulations! I love mystery books.

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  19. I do not know what to comment about, but this blog is pretty cool.

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  20. My favorite author is Gary Paulsen

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  21. My favorite author is joe dispenza:)

    Julie DOT Matek 79 at Yahoo DOT com

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  22. I like any books by James Patterson.

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  23. I like any books by Debbie Macomber.

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  24. I like Thomas Mann. The books are long but, I love his humor and his characters are interesting.

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  25. My favorite author is Usula K. LeGuin. She lived in the same city as I.

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  26. My favorite book author is Stephen King

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  27. I love everything written by Tom Robbins. So quirky and strange, but with such interesting insight into the human psyche.

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  28. I love the Lord of the Rings series!

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  29. I like Steven King and Danielle Steele

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  30. My favorite book is 1984. Thanks for the giveaway!

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  31. My favorite author is Debbie Macomber! My email is traciemcooper0515@gmail.com

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  32. I enjoy way too many authors and genres to say that any one book or author is my favorite. About the only things I steer away from are horror and erotica.

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  33. I am an author, can I be bias and say myself ;)

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  34. My favorite author is Richard Adams and a child I was forever changed by reading Watership Down and The Plague Dogs.

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  35. James Patterson is my favorite author and the Women's Murder Club is my favorite series.

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  36. Jessica Strawser - Not That I Could Tell

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  37. Love your interesting books to read

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  38. My favorite book of all time is thinner by Stephen king I also love the movie and I’m a huge fan of Stephen King
    Crazyweirdo33@yahoo.com

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  39. My favorite book is Good Omens. It's one of those books that I can just pick up and enjoy, time and time again.

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  40. One of my favorite authors is Lisa Scottoline.

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  41. my favorite author is RA Salvatore

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  42. Congrats! love to see another woman succeed.

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  43. i love to read stephen king books. they are my favorite.

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  44. Diehard Sci-Fi fantasy fan, Dragon Riders of Pern trilogy Anne McCaffery

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  45. I love reading almost anything, but my favorites are Joseph Murphy's 'Power of Your Subconscious Mind' and Anne Tyler for her slice of real life novels.

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  46. thanks for the chance and i love mystery books.

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  47. Definitely Stephen King - his writing is very good!

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  48. I used to read a lot.. I love the classics.. Homer's the Illiad is one of my favorites

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  49. Nicholas Sparks is one of my favorite authors!

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  50. My favorite paranormal author is Charlaine Harris.

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  51. I have been always a reader thank goodness and probably my favorite book is The Stand.

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  52. My favorite author is Nicholas Sparks and my favorite is The Notebook

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  53. I enjoy the work of Ian McEwan.

    theyyyguy@yahoo.com

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  54. My favorite author is Ray Bradbury, because I enjoy the horror/mystery touches he has in his science fiction novels.

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  55. Well, my fave religious book is the Bible, but I also like the Anne of Green Gables series of fiction books. Thanks and God Bless! ILuvTheEucharist @ aol dot com

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  56. My favorite author is Jane Austen.

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  57. My favorite author is Kathleen Woodiwiss. She wrote my favorite book The Wolf and the Dove.

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  58. My favorite is danielle steel she is awesome writer

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  59. Wondering what types of artifacts you found? There are arrowheads around here and other stuff with the rich history of this area close to the water in Port Lavaca, Tx!

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  60. My favorite book is Wicked by Gregory Maguire. Louis Davila

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  61. I don't have a favorite author or book but I've been reading cozy mysteries like crazy this year.

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  62. John Marsden is one of my favorite authors. I love the Tomorrow series.

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  63. I love every single jodi picoult book. Most dean koontz. watership down. so many good ones

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  64. My reading patterns vary greatly, but Danielle Steele has always held my attention.

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  65. HAPPY ANNIVERSARY ! I ENJOY READING YOUR BLOG AND ALL THE GREAT BOOK REVIEWS !!!

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  66. My favorite author is Debbie Macomber. They are cozy romances, with a mysterious twist at times. Thank you for the awesome giveaway.

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  67. I like historical fiction and have many "favorite" authors. I am reading Clive Cussler and Elizabeth Peters now.

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  68. A really good book I read recently was Julie Murphy's Dumplin'! Puddin' by her is also very good!

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  69. I love Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series!

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  70. A Tale of Two Cities is my favorite book.

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  71. My favorite author is Nicholas Sparks

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  72. My favorite author is Danielle Steele, love reading all of the books!

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  73. its hard to pick a fave, but Donna Tartt's writing blows me away.

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  74. Karen Kingsbury is one of my favorite authors.

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  75. THANKS SO MUCH FOR THE CHANCE TO WIN!

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  76. Stephenie Meyer is my favorite author.

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  77. So many books I have loved; Dean Koontz's Intensity, David Baldacci's Absolute Power. So many Authors, so many titles....also loved the Twilight series. Sorry just can't choose one author or one book. :-(
    Thank you for a great giveaway! :-)

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  78. I love to read and have read a lot of books in my lifetime. There is so many good books and authors out there. I do love reading Stephen King's books and also like reading westerns. Thanks!

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  79. I likewise like a lot of books, and a lot of them are non-fiction, too hard too just pick one.

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  80. My favorite book is "The Last Dragon" by Fleming Lee Blitch.

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  81. I do love Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, but Sender Unknown by Sallie Lowenstein is too cute not to mention.

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  82. 3000 books! I'm impressed. I've been reading anything and everything since childhood, but the books were usually from the library. I only have a couple of hundred that I've kept since adulthood.

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  83. Peter gethers is one of my favorite authors.

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  84. I wanted to thank you for this great read!! I definitely enjoying every little bit of it I have you bookmarked to check out new stuff you post. maui helicopter tours

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