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I just looked at the calendar and kind of freaked out when I realized I had LESS than a MONTH before Along for the Ride is released. And only a little over a week before I head to NYC for BEA. (OMG check out my use of acronyms!) Now, some of these dates and times may still be subject to change. But since a couple are ticketed events and tickets are already on sale, I wanted to go ahead and post them. Just be sure to contact the store for more details if you need them, and I'll post other updates here as well. 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! |
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