Fire
up the engines, honey, it's time to take this book on the road!
In
about a month, I am the very lucky author who gets to visit 20
cities in 12 days, and (fingers crossed, toes crossed, jumping
up and down) meet hundreds and hundreds of you guys in the process.
I am
not sure exactly how the cities were chosen, except that I do
know that an effort was made to get me to a couple of places I
had not visited before.
There are three kinds of events on this tour. Because I write
for teenagers, my smart publishers went to a lot of trouble to
get me in front of them. I will be visiting 7 high schools in
the course of this visit. (It was supposed to be 8, but administrators
at one school apparently got spooked because of the nature of
my books.) These SCHOOL EVENTS
are not open to the public. Sorry. I wish they were.
A
STOCK SIGNING is kind of a drive-by signing. It
is not a formal book signing, but booksellers don't seem to mind
if people show up. Generally, the author sprints from the car
to the store, signs a lot of books, gets to hang out with the
booksellers (who tend to be very interesting people), then sprints
back to the car.
A
PUBLIC EVENT,
is, well, open to the public. That means you and everybody you
know are invited to hang out. Bring the dog, too. I like dogs.
If you see a gap of a couple of hours between events, I am sad
to report it does not mean I can get together with you for coffee.
Every minute of this tour is spoken for between traveling, speaking,
lunches and dinners with librarians and booksellers, and - occasionally
- sleep.
Enough
babbling, let's get to it!
TWISTED
TOUR, Mar. 20 – April 1, 2007
Tuesday, March 20 - fly half-way across the country.
Try not to bore people sitting next to me with details of the
new book. However, if stuck on tarmac for more than an hour, volunteer
to hold plane spellbound by reading the first 15 chapters out
loud.
Wednesday,
March 21 - Arkansas & Mississippi
8am
- SCHOOL EVENT -
Blytheville, AK
Sponsored by: That
Bookstore
11am
- STOCK SIGNING:
That
Bookstore
316 W. Main, Blytheville, AR 72315 Tel:(870) 763-3333
7:00pm - PUBLIC EVENT!:
Books-A-Million
135 Towne Square Boulevard, Southaven, MS 38671 (suburb of Memphis,
TN) Tel:(662) 536-1888
Thursday,
March 22 - Mississippi
10:30
am - SCHOOL EVENT,
kinda sorta
Young Authors Fair – Oxford
Conference for the Book
Gertrude Castellow Ford Center for the Performing Arts, 100 University
Ave., P.O. Box 1848, University, MS 38677-1848 Tel:(662) 915-2787
Midday
- super-special treat for me which I will be raving about endlessly,
I swear. Man, oh, man. It is going to be faulking amazing. (Yes,
that was a hint, duh.)
3:30
pm - PUBLIC EVENT:
Square Books,
Jr.
160 Courthouse Square, Oxford, MS, 38655 Tel: (662) 236-2207
Friday, March 23 - Florida
12:30
pm - SCHOOL EVENT: -
Miami, FL
Sponsored by: Barnes
& Noble West Kendall
Barnes
& Noble West Kendall Kendall Village West,
12405 N Kendall Drive, Miami, FL 33186 Tel: (305) 598-7727
7:00 pm - AMAZING PUBLIC EVENT,
including a Battle of the Bands as well as a booksigning! 20%
of the money from my book sales that evening will be donated to
The Children's Home Society
of Florida Please bring a new or gently used book
to donate to the Society. If you do, you'll get a raffle ticket.
The store is going to raffle off some Miami Heat tickets, a gift
certificate to American Apparel, and other stuff. (Isn't this
great?)
Where will this awesome thing happen?
Books
& Books 265 Aragon Ave. Coral Gables, FL 33134
Tel: (305) 442-4408
Saturday, March 24 - Kentucky & Ohio
12:00pm
PUBLIC EVENT: Blue
Marble Bookstore
1356 S. Ft. Thomas Avenue, Ft. Thomas, KY 41075 Tel: (859) 781-0602
3:00pm
PUBLIC EVENT: Joseph-Beth
Booksellers
2692 Madison Rd. Cincinnati, OH 45208 Tel: (513) 731-7770
5:30
pm PUBLIC EVENT:
Blue Manatee
Children's Bookstore
3054 Madison Rd. Cincinnati, OH 45209 Tel: (513) 731-2665
Sunday, March
25 - Ohio
2:00 pm PUBLIC
EVENT:
Books & Co.
The Greene Town Center
4453 Walnut Street Dayton, Ohio 45440 Tel:(937) 429-2169
6:00 pm PUBLIC
EVENT: Signing at Upper Arlington High School
(open to public)
1650 Ridgeview Rd. Upper Arlington, OH 43221
Sponsored by:Cover
to Cover
Cover
to Cover 3560 North High Street Columbus, OH 43214-4041
Tel: (614) 263-1624
Monday, March 26 - Michigan
12:00pm – SCHOOL EVENT
- Lapeer, MI
Sponsored by: Halfway
Down the Stairs
Halfway
Down the Stairs114 E. 4th St. Rochester, MI 48307
Tel: (248) 652-6066
7:00pm - PUBLIC
EVENT! Signing at Southfield Public Library
26300 Evergreen Rd. Southfield, MI 48076Tel: (248) 796-4240
Sponsored by: The
Book Beat
The Book Beat
26010 Greenfield Oak Park, MI 48237 Tel: (248) 968-1190
Tuesday, March
27 - Michigan
3:30 pm - PUBLIC EVENT:
Borders/Birmingham
34300 Woodward Birmingham, MI 48009 Tel: (248) 203-0005
7:00 pm - PUBLIC
EVENT: Nicola’s
Books
Westgate Shopping Center 2513 Jackson Ave. Ann Arbor, MI 48103
Tel: (734) 662-0600
Wednesday, March 28 - Illinois & Missouri
4:30pm PUBLIC EVENT:
Piece
of Mind Books
1530 Troy Rd. Edwardsville, IL 62025 Tel: (618) 656-7277
7:00 pm PUBLIC
EVENT: Signing at St. Louis Public Library - Buder
Branch
4401 Hampton Ave. St. Louis, MO 63109 Tel: (314) 539-0380
Sponsored by: Left
Bank Books
Left Bank Books
399 N. Euclid St. Louis, MO 63108 Tel: (314) 367-6731
Thursday, March 29 - TEXAS!
10:30am - SCHOOL EVENT –
Houston, TX
Sponsored by: Blue
Willow Bookshop
Blue
Willow Bookshop14532 Memorial Dr. Houston, TX 77079
Tel: (281) 497-8675
1:30pm - ANOTHER SCHOOL EVENT
- Houston, TX
Sponsored by: Brazos
Bookstore
4:00pm - PUBLIC EVENT:
Brazos
Bookstore
2421 Bissonnet Houston, TX 77005 Tel: (713) 523-0701
Friday, March 30 - Texas
2:00pm - SCHOOL EVENT
- Austin, TX
Sponsored by: Book
People
4pm STOCK
SIGNING - Book
People
603 North Lamar Blvd. Austin, TX 78703 Tel: (512) 472-5050
Saturday, March 31 - California
4:00 pm PUBLIC EVENT:
Kepler’s Books
1010 El Camino Real Menlo Park CA 94025 Tel: (650) 324-4321 VERY
STOKED ABOUT THIS ONE!
7:30 pm: PUBLIC
EVENT: Books
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601 Van Ness Ave. San Francisco, CA 94102 Tel: (415) 776-1111
Sunday, April
1
Fly home.
Sleep on plane.
Drool all over self.
Sign cocktail napkins in a daze.
Sign walls of airplane bathroom in stupor. Sign face of appalled
flight attendant.
Get arrested.
Sleep in squad car.
Read TWISTED out loud to cell mates.
Have husband bail me out.
Start writing new book.
Signings after the
Official Tour
Saturday,
April 28 - New York
6:00pm - River’s
End Bookstore
19 W Bridge St Oswego, NY 13126 Tel:(315) 342-0077
Friday, May
11 - Pennsylvania
6:00pm PUBLIC EVENT:
The
Moravian Book Shop
428 Main St. Bethlehem, PA 18018 Tel: (610) 866-5481
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