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Sep.02.2010
On my book tours I often venture to places few others visit. There are book festivals in tiny provincial towns. Readings at bookshops in small rural villages. This week I spoke in a German town that many Germans are convinced doesn’t even exist.Bielefeld (population 330,000) is a town in North...
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Jun.22.2010
“Any author who seriously complains about book tours has a serious problem with their priorities.”
Photo: Melanie DuneaDispatches from Anthony Bourdain's Book Tour The author says things are going "ridiculously well" By Lynn Andriani
Anthony Bourdain is more than sheepish about how...
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Apr.20.2010
My theatrical career is behind me, or at least I thought it was, until I came out of the shadows of ghost writing and and selling articles and stories to magazines and newspapers. I didn't need to be anything but the writer. I was invisible. My words took center stage. Then someone came along and...
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Apr.18.2010
From book coverRobyn Schneider says authors need "a range of online stuff."Local fairs, Facebook replacing the book tourPhila. Free Library's book festival this weekend hosts writers well-known and obscure.
By Tirdad Derakhshani
Inquirer Staff Writer
The Free Library of Philadelphia's...
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Apr.04.2010
Well, today is Sunday but I have to throw up a quick post about Saturday's journey.
My mom, as promised, called at 7:30 am to wake me up and check on me. I was fine, just stiff from laying in the hotel bed. After getting up, I lazed around, checking email and packing clothes back into bags.
I woke...
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Nov.05.2009
Dear Reader,
These days, I find juggling is a useful skill for furthering my career. Filling the blanks left by my publisher's decision to focus on national publicity for "The Sword of Medina" and let me handle the rest could fill all my time. I'm setting up readings and booksignings,...
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Oct.12.2009
To web-presence. Or not. To read in bookstores. Or not. To contact every one you know. Or not.
If you haven't seen this spoof on book promotion, read it!
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2009/10/19/091019sh_shouts_weiner
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Oct.02.2009
So Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues has been out since Tuesday. Somehow (because I am still a naive kitten, I suppose) I thought that would change everything. And maybe it has, but no one has told me yet. I'm still the same old Loren, waking up at 4 a.m. with a to-do list already in mind, already...
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Sep.08.2009
Seriously, how? If you're any good at teaching, you'll give it your best energy, and you'll come home depleted. Perhaps you write during the blessed summers, on the rare sabbaticals. And maybe you've made your peace with that. You are fortunate to have a good teaching job, you know that.
But...
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Jul.27.2009
I recently discussed media training with an author who was getting ready to go on her first book tour. The publisher wasn't going to pay for that service, so she searched around locally and hired someone at the last minute.
Later I called to see how it went. "Frankly, I was disappointed...
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