POLICIES AND PROCEDURES + DISCLAIMER

 Authors:

✔ Where all the services are concerned, we will basically take care of all the details for you. Of course, we will get your approval of everything being used and keep you up to date, but our goal is to allow you more time to focus on writing.

✔ We don’t believe in limiting the amount of blog stops for anything (blog tours, cover reveals, blitz tours, etc.). The more bloggers that sign up, the better.

✔ We have built a contact list of bloggers which we email for each sign-up opportunity. We also post the sign-up links across the social media pages so other bloggers that might want to sign up are able to do so. 

✔ AUTHORS NEED TO SHARE THEIR TOUR SIGN-UP LINK WITH THEIR FOLLOWERS. Include it in your newsletter, post on your social media...etc! Share, share, share. We will share everywhere too!

✔ GIVEAWAYS during tours: If you are interested in hosting a giveaway, we can set up the Rafflecopter for you. You can also choose to take care of that and just have us share the link (either way is fine). We can also come up with another type of giveaway. It doesn’t necessarily have to be through Rafflecopter.


✔ TOUR KITS: We strive to send out the tour kits to bloggers with enough time prior to the tours since many of them schedule their posts ahead of time. For multi-day tours, kits will be sent out 3-5 days prior to the tour launching along with a schedule. For 1-day tours, kits will be sent out 1-3 days prior. Authors must provide images and content for the tours, HEA will create the kits. If the author does not have promo images available for the tour(s), let us know and we will help.


✔ Due to copyright laws, we will not allow teaser graphics that are done with illegally purchased pictures (for exampe: images downloaded off of Google or Pinterest and/or images that include celebrities). The author must own the copyrights to the images being used.

Payment options available: 

PAYPAL
We invoice authors via PayPal. 

AUTHORS BOOKING TOURS: Invoices will be sent out at the time of booking and at least a 50% deposit will be due at that time. The rest will be due prior to the tour launching. 

FULL TIME AUTHORS WITH MONTHLY PACKAGES: Invoices will be sent in the beginning of the month and will be due by the end of the month. If the invoice is not paid by the end of the month, the following month will be on hold until the previous month is paid in full. 

Cancellation:
If an author cancels a service after time has been invested in getting everything organized, a deposit of 50% will be charged.

DISCLAIMER:

✔ While we will work hard on a daily basis, we cannot guarantee an increase in book sales.

✔ TOURS THAT OFFER REVIEW OPTION:

• We do NOT guarantee a certain number of reviews. 
• While we will remind reviewing bloggers to post their reviews during the tour (as part of their tour stop and/or on Amazon and Goodreads), we are not responsible for their lack of posting. We can only ask them to fulfill their blogger responsibilities. That said, we do make note of everything and bloggers that don't follow through will not be allowed to participate in future events. 
• We do NOT guarantee that all reviews will be positive. We do have a star-rating requirement for bloggers (see below), and we strive to make your tour as positive as possible, but there are times when a review happens that is not favorable. Please keep in mind that this is a possibility. In these cases, while bloggers usually hold off on posting until the promotional period is over, we can only suggest that they hold off. We cannot force them to take down their reviews.

Bloggers:

✔ Posts should be available on your websites and/or social media pages by 11 AM EST the day of the tour. After this time, we go by your platforms grabbing the links to send to the author.

✔ If there is a specific time requirement for a tour, it will be explained in the media kit for that tour.

✔ BLOGGER REVIEWS:

• ARCs and review copies are sent exclusively to those reviewing during the book tour. They are NOT to be shared or pirated.
• Since a tour is meant to promote the book on tour, we require reviews to have a minimum of a 3-star rating. If you are unable to give the book an honest review of at least 3 stars, then we kindly ask that you hold off on posting the review as part of the tour. In this case, you will be provided materials for a promotional post instead of a review post.
• Over-due reviews: While we understand that sometimes life gets in the way of reading and reviewing, bloggers that have a tendency to not follow through with their reviews will not be allowed to participate in future events. If you are unable to post your review on time (during the tour), you must email us and let us know. We are very understanding, of course, but we don't encourage an ongoing situation.

✔ HTML codes (for both Blogger and Wordpress blogs) will be provided for every tour. These make up a pre-made blog post. You copy/paste these codes onto the HTML area on your blog website, and the pre-made post should appear. We always ask that before publishing said post, you verify that everything looks okay. Sometimes, depending on the website, the spacing between paragraphs and graphics is altered. Wordpress users must check spacing before publishing.

✔ A Facebook-ready post will be provided in all media kits. You simply paste it onto your Facebook Blog Page and attach the tour graphics. Don't forget to tag us and the author!

✔ Twitter-ready tweets will be included in all kits. Simply attach graphics to your tweets, and done!

✔ Instagram-ready post will be included in all kits. Simply upload any or all of the images in the kit and paste the text sent.