Book tour news–and an announcement
It’s no secret that I’m loving this book tour, designed, hosted, attended by you. What an incredible, insane pleasure to meet people who have been reading 37days for a week or for years, or artists who contributed the beauty that graces the pages of Life is a Verb, or people who have wandered into a bookstore to use the bathroom and suddenly find me there weeping as I read the story of Yaron. All of you have taken up residence in my heart.
A few dates have been added to the book tour and I hope if you’re near one of these cities, you’ll come by to say hello and tell me a bit of your story and perhaps buy a book for your second cousin’s piano teacher – mark your calendar and I’ll provide details when I can think straight (many of the details are already here):
GREENSBORO, NC – this Friday night, October 17th at 7pm! Barnes & Noble at Friendly Center
WAYNESVILLE, NC – Saturday, October 25th at 1pm
CANTON, OH – Wednesday, Nov 5th (details to follow)
CLEVELAND, OH – Thursday, Nov 6th at Ursuline College (private, by invitation only)
RESTON, VA – Sunday, Nov 9th at Barnes & Noble Reston – 2pm
WASHINGTON, DC – Sunday, Nov 9th at Barnes & Noble Georgetown – 7:30pm
ALEXANDRIA, VA – Monday, Nov 10th at SHRM Headquarters (private)
DURHAM, NC – Tuesday, Nov 18 at the Regulator Bookshop – 7pm
APEX, NC – Wednesday, Nov 19 at Artists’ Oasis – A "Make and Take" event in an art store where we’ll make art to go along with the book – won’t that be incredibly cool?!
SYLVA, NC – Friday, Nov 21 at City Lights Bookstore – 7pm
CHARLESTON, SC – Sunday, Nov 23rd (details to follow)
TAMPA, FL – Thursday, Dec 4th (at a Barnes & Noble -details to follow)
ST. PETERSBURG, FL – Friday, Dec 5th (at the USF Barnes & Noble – details to follow)
SARASOTA, FL – Saturday, Dec 6th (at Sarasota News and Books – details to follow)
Other cities in the works include Atlanta, Charlotte, and Santa Barbara, California (and perhaps other locations in California), and more. I’ll let you know!
And now, a moment of truth. I love this book and everything connected with it. I love the feel of the pages and the art and the readers of it. And yet, I miss writing. I feel the sense of urgency to continue these stories for my daughters and I miss the way in which I can play with words and find such joy in it. I haven’t written for too long. I long to say something else, something more.
And so, beginning Monday, October 20th, I’m going back to the roots of 37days and will post one essay each week, on Mondays, just as I did way back in 2005 when 37days began. There may be other posts during the week–perhaps more reader essays about their last 37days or ponderings on the books I’m reading or updates on the book tour–but look for a return to 37days, at last, come Monday.
(photo from lunch with Jodi at the Willy Street Co-op in Madison, Wisconsin)
