Book Tour News!
As the book draws near, I am beginning to get invitations to do readings and/or signings in bookshops and book groups across the country in September, October, and November.
One of them comes from a bookshop in Augusta, Georgia. I wonder if there are any 37days readers in the Augusta, Georgia, area who might be a point person there to encourage friends, neighbors, strangers on the street–to make it a viable stop on the tour. I’ll be glad to come to Augusta if I know someone is there helping spread the news. There’s nothing lonelier than sitting in a big bookshop all alone with a pile of your books hoping that SOMEONE, DEAR LORD LET SOMEONE COME UP TO ME AND ACT INTERESTED. So, if you’re in Augusta and can help, please let me know!
If you’d like me to come to your community, I’d love to! All I need is a local volunteer willing to help make it happen! That might mean getting a local bookseller excited about the idea, or inviting your friends and family to a potluck dinner where I can read a story or two, or someone whose uncle’s first wife’s brother is a radio producer…well, who knows? You probably have far better ideas than I do. Let me know if that’s you by sending an email.
Also, for those of you in book clubs where it’s not possible to physically be there, if you’d like to read LIFE IS A VERB in your club, I’m happy to participate virtually–either by answering questions before your meeting or participating by phone or webcast during your meeting. As a book club convener myself, I’m more than happy to do so. If that’s of interest, let me know!
And a blog tour is shaping up for the month of September, in which I’ll visit–either by interview or a guest column–30 blogs during that month. If you write a blog and would be interested in being one of those first thirty blogs, let me know! Please include "Blog Tour" in your subject line.
I’m still holding out hope that the president of Air Stream will come to his or her senses and provide me with a huge silver bullet in which I, Mr Brilliant, Emma, Tess, and the dog named Blue can tour for 37 days in October. Maybe Billy Collins would like to join us for a few stops. Stranger things have happened.
