The Big Archive of Links - Book of Us Virtual Book Tour

Here it is, a list of all the links I can find during this Virtual Book Tour. It is obviously a work in progress, and will be updated daily until the end of the Book of Us Virtual Book Tour

Preparation

Phew, these VBTs take a bit of preparation. Here are some blog entries by Angie.

• Blog entry 4th April - Angie announces the VBT, and the tour schedule. From this is a link to the ScrapYourStories website, for more information on the Book of Us
• Blog entry 4th April - the SB Industry News Blog - again announces the VBT with schedule and information. This also includes the official press release.
• I copied the press realise onto the Scrapability website here.
• Blog entry 14th April - Angie designs the banner graphic you see on all of these sites.
• In this blog entry above, Angie also links to the new page on the Virtual Book Tour, on the ScrapYourStories site again. Here, you will find the Event Calendar, with more information on what each tour site might be doing, with links to those relevant URLs* The page also includes a pinned map of locations where you will find the websites being visited virtually.
• Blog entry 20th April - Angie updates us on some of the things happening at some sites.

Your main source of information will be found at the VBT Webpage, with event calendar, and links to everything happening on each site.

 *Note: for many of the Websites concerned, and links to these forums or galleries, you must be a member of the website to access these.

 

Sunday April 24th - Angie Visits Scrapbook Bytes

1. Angie blogs about her first tour schedule.
2. Scrapbook Bytes opened up a Q&A Forum called  Ask Angie Forum In here, you will find links to a nice review of Angie’s books, Angie’s favourite scrapbooking software, the challenge, and where to get copies of her books. Scrapbook Bytes also held a chat session with Angie.
3. Here are the Scrapbook Bytes galleries for the Angie Pedersen challenges. You will see layouts for the Book of Me, Growing Up Me, and Book of Us.
4. And Angie blogs about the whirlwind chat/challenge and crop.

Monday April 25th - A Visit with Scrapbook Jungle

1. Angie blogs about her upcoming tour through the Jungle
2. Scrapbook Jungle held a 3 day game before the VBT. This was a layout competition towards Relationships.
3. Scrapbook Jungle’s Official Book Review of the Book of Us
4. An interesting Angie Pedersen trivia game at Scrapbook Jungle
5. And Scrapbook Jungle’s overall Q&A thread with Angie on the day, called the Thread of Me
6. This is the PDF file transcript of the actual chat, on the SJ site.
7. Angie rounds up the Scrapbook Jungle tour in her blog entry here.

Tuesday April 26th - A Chat with SSReflections

1. Angie visited SSReflections for a Chat Session at 8pm that night. This was via the SSReflections Ezine Yahoo Group chat facility. You needed to be a member of this yahoo group to logon to this chat.
2. And here is Angie’s blog recap on the Chat at SSReflections, with other news on more tour visits.

Wednesday April 27th - Scrapbooking.About Com

1. Scrapbooking.about.com published an interview with Angie Pedersen on the Book of Us, by Rebecca Ludens.
2. Angie issued a layout challenge, with samples and free graphics (What’s in Your Car challenge) for this also.
3. Scrapbooking About Com showed the challenge entries in this gallery here.

 

Thursday April 28th - Scraps Ahoy is setup for further visits

1. Plans changed a little on the day - see Angie’s explanation on her blog entry
2. Scraps Ahoy put up the Book of Us challenge on their message board here - to create a timeline of a relationship. The challenge was for two weeks until Thursday 12th May
3. An Ask Angie thread was also setup for the day, and in readiness for the chat session (on Thursday 12th May)

 

 

Friday April 29th - The Lifetime Moments Stop

1. Angie blogs about the upcoming chat at Lifetime Moments in this blog entry

2. Lifetime Moments has a Message Forum entitled “Angie Pedersen A Virtual Book Tour LIVE Q&A” - this thread went on for several pages.

3. And this is the challenge issued by Angie at Lifetime Moments.

4. And this is the recap blog of Angie’s chat with Lifetime Moments, in which Angie gives some starter tips and a link to some journaling prompts - Lists of 10

 

 

Saturday April 30th - Angie joins Scrapability

1. The Scrapability Blogsite opened up a new Journal especially for the Virtual Book Tour, which Angie Pedersen was given editing access to. This features many blog entries and challenges for the day, with additional information provided within regular Scrap Rants blog entries.
2. Within the Book of Us Virtual Book Tour blog you will find entries for a Profile on Angie, with links to purchase the books, and a full listing of links and pages created during the entire tour (this document).
3. This is the Scrapability Contents Listing for the day - with a full list of blog entry links and challenges during the tourstop.
4. Angie recaps her experience of the day at her blog

 

Sunday May 1st - A Visit with UKScrappers

1. UKScrappers opened a special forum entitled “Angie Pedersen’s Virtual Book Tour on UKS “
2. On Tuesday April 26th Angie issued her challenge to the UKScrappers to create a favourite song layout, ready by Sunday.
3. Angie blogs her recap of the event at UKScrappers

Monday May 2nd - Pages of the Heart

1. Pages of the Heart put up the chat highlights for the night here

2. These are the links to their reviews - Book of Me, Growing up Me & Book of Us

3. Angie ran a Layout Challenge also at POTH - to create a layout based on the phrase - Keys to our Celebrations. The challenge layouts were uploaded to this gallery.

4. POTH members Barbara Snyder and Michelle Pieters also had an interview with Angie Pedersen, and the interview article is published here.

5. Angie blogs her recap
   

Tuesday May 3rd - Scrap Outside the Box

1. On the Tuesday beforehand, Angie uploaded her layout challenge for the SOTB crew - this was to create a 50 Things About Us layout. She had a special digital kit freebie created by KirstyAnn Nerness which after the tour would go on sale at the site. The layouts were uploaded to this gallery.
2. Christina Blomberg held an interview with Angie, which is published at SOTB
3. There are also reviews of the books on the site - The Book of Us- review by Christina Blomberg, and another Book of Us review by Andrea Sampson.
4. Angie blogs her recap.

Wednesday May 4th - A tour to Scrapping With Style

1. Another layout challenge from Angie - this time to create a layout about what makes us laugh. Layouts will be posted at this gallery, up until May 9th.
2. Scrapping with Style also had an Ask Angie thread.
3. Here is the Angie blog recap

Thursday May 5th - Digital Scrapbook Place hosts Angie

 

1. Digital Scrapbook Place held a chat with Angie on the day. The transcript has been put up on site here.
2. Angie posted a challenge at DSP - If you could tell the story of your relationship by taking someone to 5 places, where would you go?
3. Jamie Rouselle provided a Book of Us review
4. Angie rounds up the tour with a recap in this blog entry

 

Friday May 6th - Angie goes down under to Kiwiscraps

I’m sorry - I just can’t stop myself from saying something here - can I come home with you too? Signed Michelle@Scrapability (lost in England, and pining for N-Zed)

1. Angie’s tourstop at Kiwiscraps came at the same time that New Zealand was celebrating National Scrapbooking Day. Her tourstop became part of a nationwide event, which you can read about here.
2. During the day, Angie logged onto a chat forum which was provided throughout the country at several different crops. Read about this in Angie’s blog entry below.
3. There was also a challenge - Things You’ll hear at Our House.
4. Angie rounds up the tour with a recap in this blog entry

 

Saturday May 7th - The Tour ends at Angie’s site - One Scrappy Site

1. One Scrappy Site also hosted a Round Robin Interview between several contributors who had layouts or projects published in the Book of Us. This series of interview questions and answers can be found at this link.

2. Angie rounds up the tour with a recap in this blog entry

 

But - StoryCircle has a bit too

• Story Circle Hosts a Book Review for the Book of Us - reviewed by Lee Ambrose.