Welcome to the Virtual Book Tour for Discovering Your Inner Samurai: The Entrepreneurial Woman's Journey to Business Success!

You've reached the "tour page" for the virtual book tour (sometimes known as "blog book tour") for Dr. Susan L. Reid's new book, Discovering Your Inner Samurai: The Entrepreneurial Woman's Journey to Business Success!

On this blog book tour, Susan or her book have been the subject in twenty-four posts on seventeen blogs, bringing a wide spectrum of views and insights about her book or hosting a post by Susan exploring subjects dear to their readers. This journey has added some wonderful content to the blogosphere and we encourage you to check it out. While the tour itself has come to an end, you can follow it by clicking through on the links to the posts provided below.

And now on with the Virtual Book Tour. . . !

• December 13, 2007:The first stop on the tour was an early one before the holidays with Jill Hurst-Wahl of Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship (the newsletter of WISE, a program of The Falcone Center for Entrepreneurship at Syracuse University). Jill has contributed thoughtful posts on Susan's book in Book: Discovering Your Inner Samurai on WISE, and from a different perspective in Polymaths and our profession in Impact: SLA Leadership & Management Division Blog of the Special Libraries Association.
• January 10, 2008: Anita Campbell kicks off the first major leg of the online book tour for Inner Samurai on Small Business Trends, where she finds that through the book, "Susan helps the reader confront doubt and make wise choices about using the 1,440 minutes each of us has each day." Small Business Trends also hosts a guest post by Susan, How Many of You Became Entrepreneurs Accidentally?.
• January 11, 2008: Susan serves up the guest post Recession Proof Your 2008 with 7 Sure-fire Ways to Boost Productivity and field comments all day on B5Media's Slacker Manager with Phil Gerbyshak. On January 14th, Phil also announced a contest to win a free copy of Inner Samurai on Slacker Manager.
• January 12, 2008: Liz Fuller reviews the book in the post Discover Your Inner Samurai on her blog More Than WE Know: Information, Inspiration and Support for Women Entrepreneurs.
• January 15, 2008: Holly Buchanan of FutureNow's GrokDotCom.com posted Entrepreneurial and Female: Discover Your Inner Samurai, a review of the book with insights from a conversation with Susan.
• January 18, 2008: Liz Fuller interviews Susan on More Than We Know in Today’s Woman Entrepreneur - Dr. Susan L. Reid, discussing her book and the process of writing a book and getting it published.
• January 24, 2008: Susan was a guest, posting Is Retirement Even Relevant Anymore For Midlife Entrepreneurs? on the Think Retirement blog. ThinkRetirement explores the possibilities and relevant issues for people who are about to retire, are already retired, or care for someone of retirement age.
• January 24, 2008: BZ Riger hosted a guest post by Susan, life transition; a journey of the soul, on her blog Art of Allowing Success Mindset. BZ's blog aims to be a passionate, bold, lively conversation about master success mindset, using the law of attraction to get real results daily and taking inspired action for delicious success. BZ tries to give her readers ideas, tools, resources, and a step-by-step approach to winning a woman's inner game to wealth.
• January 25, 2008: BZ Riger posted a written interview with Susan and announced a contest for a free copy of Inner Samurai in Insights on intuition, resistance, and your inner samurai an interview on Art of Allowing Success Mindset. BZ has also posted a podcast of a conversation with Susan about the principles and background behind her book.
• January 25, 2008: Diane K. Danielson posted From “Girls’ Guides” to Samurais, a review of Inner Samurai and another book, on the Entrepreneur.com Blog Network's Top Shelf Reading Picks: Book and Blog Reviews for Savvy Entrepreneurs.
• January 29, 2008: Susan was a guest on Lisa Haneberg's blog Management Craft: Discussions About the State of the Art of Management, posting Take Time Out of Time Management for Business Success.
• January 31, 2008: Anne Zelenka published Book Review: Discovering Your Inner Samurai on her blog Anne Truitt Zelenka: a blog about the connected age.
• February 1, 2008: Dwayne Melancon reviewed Discovering Your Inner Samurai in on his blog Genuine Curiosity: Always on the lookout for new things to learn.
• February 2, 2008: Susan was interviewed by Yvonne Divita of WME Books. The 20-minute interview is hosted on this blog here.
• February 4, 2008: Verna Wilder hosted Susan's guest post Remember the Lemonade Stand on her blog Out of the Cube.
• February 6, 2008: Kevin Reid, VP of Internet & Social Media at Amplify Public Affairs, posted an interview with Susan about her Alkamae blog and blogging on Amplify's blog Blogger Relations.
• February 12, 2008: A guest post by Susan, What Is a Nice Green Company Like You Doing Without a Plan?, was posted on the Green Career Central blog of Carol McClelland. The Green Career Central blog is a companion to the Green Career Central membership site, which is for people who want to transform their passion for the environment into a prosperous green career. Carol and Susan will expand on the theme of her guest post in a live phone-in expert interview on February 26th.
• February 18, 2008: Pam Peyron posted a review, Business: Discovering Your Inner Samurai, on her blog Rural Entrepreneurs.
• February 20, 2008: Chris Bailey posted a review, Getting In Touch With My Own Inner Samurai, Part One, at his blog Bailey Work/Play: The Alchemy of Soulful Work. The Alchemy of Soulful Work is a home for anyone who wants to discover how to create meaning and purpose in their work.
• February 22, 2008: Dr. Larina Kase's hosted Susan with the post Jump Start Your Promotion Plan on her blog The Mindset of Success.
• February 22, 2008: Chris Bailey posted the second part of his exploration of Inner Samurai on Bailey Work/Play: The Alchemy of Soulful Work. In Part Two, Bailey explores the concepts in Chapter 5, Doing What You Love: Multiple-Streams-of-Passion (MSoP) and through a series of jumping off questions asks his readers to continue writing the post and share their experiences and insights in a continuing dialog.
• February 27, 2008: To wrap up the tour, Susan posted Top Five Things I Learned From My First Virtual Book Tour on her Alkamae blog.

We hope you have enjoyed the trip as much as we did and that you've gained insights and empowerment from the wonderful content and conversations that this tour has created. Of course, we at WME also hope that you . . .

Buy Susan's book at the WME Books Online Store

We'd love to hear what you think about the tour here, so click on the Comment link below if you'd like to let us know.

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Best wishes Susan on your book tour. Your enthusiasm and positive energy flow from your writing, and you really help to inspire woman to follow their inner voice. The path that you describe is very familiar to me as a novice entrepreneur trying to introduce a new product to the market. Your support has been invaluable and a constant source of energy for me.

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I agree with Stephanie - Susan's coaching is invaluable! She brought my artist out of the closet and onto the cover of her book. My experience with Susan has been a co-creative, life-changing one that I recommend heartily to all women who have the courage to say "Yes" to their dreams.

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