Okay, here we go.....
Tuesday, June 16 (Pub Day!)
7PM: The Regulator
720 Ninth Street
Durham NC 27705
Phone: 919-286-2700
Thursday, June 18
7:30PM: Quail Ridge
3522 Wade Avenue
Raleigh NC 27607
Phone: 919-828-1588
Friday June 19
3PM: Mrs. Nelson’s
1030 Bonita Avenue
La Verne CA 91750
Phone: 909-509-4558
7PM: Barnes & Noble
7881 Edinger Avenue
Huntington Beach CA 92647
Phone: (714) 897-8781
Saturday June 20
1PM: Warwick’s
7812 Girard Ave
La Jolla, CA 92037
Phone: (858) 454-0347
7PM: Copperfield’s
140 Kentucky St
Petaluma, CA 94952
Phone: 707-762-0563
Sunday June 21
1PM: Books Inc
601 Van Ness Ave
San Francisco 94102
Phone: (415) 776-1111
4PM: Great Good Place for Books
Address: 6120 LaSalle Avenue
Oakland, CA 94611
Phone: (510) 339-8210
Thursday June 25
7PM: RJ Julia
768 Boston Post Road
Madison CT 06443
Phone: 203-245-3959
Friday June 26
1PM: Vero Beach Books & Music
2145 Indian River Rd.
Vero Beach, FL 32960
Phone: 772-569-6650
8PM: Books & Books
265 Aragon Ave.
Coral Gables, FL 33134
Phone: 305-444-9044
July 11
7PM: Anderson's *With Laurie Halse Anderson (!!!! How cool is that?)
Address: 123 West Jefferson
Naperville IL 60540
Phone: 630-355-2665
July 25
11AM: McIntyre’s
2000 Fearrington Village
Pittsboro NC 27312
Phone: 919-545-5727
Also: for those of you attending BEA next week, I'll be signing on Saturday morning, the 30th, at Table 5. at 10:30 am. Then I'll be doing an informal signing at the Penguin booth from 11:30-12.
Whew! I get a little tired just looking at that. But because I didn't do much traveling for Lock and Key, I'm actually really excited to get out there and see my readers. Before then, though, I have to get my act together. Here at home, I'm all about jeans and flip flops and ponytails, but on book tour you kind of have to look, you know, cute. Or at least like you're doing a book reading, not running out to buy tuna salad at Whole Foods. So I have to get a haircut, an eyebrow wax, and some decent clothes that do not have sticky mac-and-cheese handprints on them. Also: cute shoes that are also comfortable, a couple of really good books for the plane rides, and possibly a sedative to keep me from freaking out about being a FULL COUNTRY away from my daughter.
*gulp*
That's the thing that's so crazy about all this. On the one hand, I'm so excited to get out and travel, see the readers, share the book. Not to mention get to stay in nice hotels (if only fleetingly), hang out with cool people and maybe even get to sleep past 5:30am once or twice. But at the same time, my heart honestly ACHES when I think about leaving Sasha. So it's like a no-win situation. My husband, every time I start bemoaning this (which is increasingly often) tells me that I need to just decide to enjoy it. Go out and give it all I have, and just, you know.....go along for the ride. (He doesn't actually say that, because he is not that cheesy. But I am.) And that is what I will try to do.
But, if you do see me in California or Florida or NYC, and ask me about the baby, don't be shocked if I, you know, have to swallow hard or sniffle a bit, or quickly change the subject to The Real Housewives or my current obsession with Taylor Kitsch. I'm not being rude. It's just a defense mechanism, I promise.
Have a great day, everyone!
