Hometown Hoorays:
My hometown paper, the San Francisco Chronicle, ran a super nice review of my book today. Now that feels good.
Home to the Hood:
Just a reminder that I’m at the Booksmith tonight for my book in less than 2 hours. Better late than never…
One Day More:
Tomorrow my book tour begins. This article couldn’t have come at a better time (via my friend Bella).
We’re going to be shutting the lights out here at Where There’s Smoke for the summer while I’m away and moving things over to the offical book site. Bookmark Now.net will be unveiled tomorrow.
Return of the Virtual Book Tour:
The Virtual Book Tour reappears today featuring author, eh, me. In anticipation of the release of Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times next week, I’m doing a Virtual Tour of many of my favorite sites, book-related and otherwise. Look for me over the next 3 days at VBT HQ.
VBT in the Boston Globe:
The Virtual Book Tour is mentioned in this Boston Globe article today.
It Takes a ‘Village’…
I’m in this Village Voice piece about lit-blogging.
More Bookmark Now Tour Stops:
I’ve updated the Bookmark Now Tour Schedule to reflect newly confirmed stops in Los Angeles and Seattle. If you live in a city I’m coming to, please let me know if you’d be willing to ride along and help out with a little-book related summer madness. If you don’t live near a city on this list, and are associated with a library, bookstore, university or community organizatio that would benefit from the wisdom of Bookmark Now (namely that literature is alive and well), please let me know.
Bookmark Now Tour Schedule:
Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times,
edited by yours truly, will be on sale June 1. I’ll be hitting the road
this spring and summer to meet readers across the country. Here’s the
schedule thus far…
March 11-17: South by Southwest Interactive Festival (Austin, TX)
Panelist "How to Get the Most out of SXSW." Saturday, March 12, 3:30 PM.
March 18-20: Virginia Festival of the Book (Charlottesville, VA).
Panelist: "Blogging and Virtual Tours" with MJ Rose. Saturday, March 19, 2 PM.
April 14-15: "New Face of Publishing Workshop" at Humber College (Toronto, Canada).
Featured speaker and panelist.
May 19-22: Ann Arbor Book Festival (Ann Arbor, Michigan).
Speaking on a panel in my hometown. Details TBA. I’m honored to be invited.
June 1: A Clean Well Lighted Place for Books (San Francisco, CA)
601 Van Ness Ave. Official launch party! Reception and Signing 7 PM.
June 2: Cody’s Books (Berkeley, CA)
2454 Telegraph Ave. 7:30 PM.
June 3-5: Book Expo America (New York City)
Signing Sunday June 5.
June 6: McNally Robinson Booksellers (New York City)
June 7: Galapagos Artspace (Brooklyn, NY)
70 N. 6th St. 7PM.
June 10-12: Palm Springs Writers Conference (Palm Springs, CA)
June 12: Skylight Books (Los Angeles, CA)
1818 N Vermont Ave. 5PM.
June 16: Booksmith (San Francisco, CA)
1644 Haight St. 7PM.
June 27: Capitola Book Cafe (Capitola, CA)
1475 41st Ave, 7:30 PM.
June 28: Reader’s Books (Sonoma, CA)
130 E. Napa St. 7:30 PM
July 7: Harvard Book Store (Cambridge, MA)
1256 Massachusetts Ave. 6:30PM
July 8: Politics & Prose (Washington DC)
July 12: Third Place Books (Lake Forest Park, WA)
17171 Bothell Way NE, 7PM.
July 14: Powell’s Books (Portland, OR).
1005 W. Burnside, 7:30PM
July 15: WebVisions 2005 (Portland, OR)
Featured Speaker. Details TBA.
This is just the beginning. Plans are afoot for me to hit Baltimore
and Philly this summer and Chicago, Austin and Iowa City in the fall.
In the meantime, I’m going to be visiting as many libraries, book
clubs, lecture series and classrooms. If you are part of one of these
and would be interested in having me visit and discuss reading,
publishing and the future of books, please let me know.
Okay, Thanks:
For indulging me. I’m ready to get back to blogging now.
Kevin in USA Today:
Hey Hey Hey. I’m in USA Today.
They called my book Bookmark This instead of Bookmark Now but whatever.