It’s Day 4 of my book tour, and I’ve slept in a different bed every night so far. A leaky air mattress on a floor in Mountain View, a couch in Marin, and a comfy spare bedroom in San Francisco. Luckily my other hubs will involve only two or three cities near each airport instead of seven!



My first event was basically a warm-up, a talk over dinner with some Stanford students at a co-op house where 50 students live. Half the students left as soon as they finished their vegan burgers…

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When I was a marketing executive mingling in direct selling circles (think: Tupperware and Mary Kay), I heard a speaker once tell a crowd of salespeople that the secret to her success was “open your mouth.”

She didn’t have magic fliers or special gifts for hosts or exactly the right words to say, she just put herself out there and talked to people about the products and opportunity she had to offer (thanks, Lisa K.).

That’s how it is with promoting one’s book, too, I…

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Wednesday, July 11 author Jana Richards will be visiting my blog Once Upon a Time... (http://ryshia.blogspot.com)as part of her book tour with her novella, Home Fires.  



A novella, what could be a better relaxing summer read?  Stop by Wednesday, chat with the author and be entered for a prize.  As part of her tour, Jana will be offering a $25 Amazon gift certificate to one lucky commenter.  And that isn't all for…

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The She Writes Southern Writers 4th of July Countdown Blog Tour

I'm blogging about this for She Writes community:

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"The Southern Writers of She Writes cordially invite you to The She Writes Southern Writers 4th of July Countdown Blog Tour.

The purpose of this tour was to give as many of the members in the…

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The Southern Writers of She Writes cordially invite you to The She Writes Southern Writers 4^th of July Countdown Blog Tour.

 

The purpose of this tour was to give as many of the members in the Southern Writers group a chance to…

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We all know the oft-repeated bad news: the publishing world, which was always going to hell in a handbasket, is now rushing down the mountain on steroids. Translation: there's little opportunity or money to be had when it comes to getting big publishers to promote their writers, send them on tour, and pick up the tab. I remember a friend of mine, who has written nine bestsellers, telling me that in the good old days, she actually had a credit card from her publisher that she could use to…

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Sometime last year, while reading Patti Digh's 37days blog, I came across a poem by Maya Stein that I loved and clicked over to her blog to read more about her. I've been "following" her ever since. Stein is now planning an intensive eight-week, 30-state traveling poetry project she's calling "Tour de Word" -- a project financed entirely with donations through Kickstarter. Today, I'm featuring a video that describes the project and provides resources for accessing Stein's enjoyable… Continue

Most everyone has heard of Lance Armstrong. They know him as a cancer survivor and founder of the Livestrong Foundation. They also may know him as a pro cyclist who has won the Tour de France an unprecedented seven times. Armstrong’s tenacity and phenomenal success has raised global awareness and support for the fight against cancer. His high profile position as a cyclist has generated huge popularity for bike racing especially the Tour de… Continue

Just published - "Voicing Dissent: American Artists and the War on Iraq" (including Guerrilla Girls On Tour). http://bit.ly/8bEvUn

BEST PLAYS OF 2009

Guerrilla Girls On Tour breaks from our policy to not comment on living artists in light of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2009 Top Ten List that contained ZERO books by women and an almost total absence of books by people of color. HERE, for the first time, is GUERRILLA GIRLS ON TOUR's BEST PLAYS OF 2009. Drum roll please....



Becky Shaw by Gina Gionfriddo

Blasted by Sarah Kane

God of Carnage by Yasmina… Continue