Old-fashioned live book tour

Old-fashioned live book tour

            Elaine Viets noted on this site that traditional book tours seem to be a thing of the past.  As Archie McNally would say, not for yrs. truly.  I did 24 stops in 30 days in New Mexico in June and July for The Pot Thief Who Studied Pythagoras, the first in my cozy series set in Albuquerque's Old Town.  Yes, I had to devote several hundred hours of work for five months before the tour contacting stores, trying to get reviews in the media of the towns where I had signings scheduled, mailing examination copies to stores that wanted to see the book before deciding, mailing copies to reviewers, and re-arranging the schedule to minimize criss-crossing the state. 

            But it was worth it. .  .

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