My inbox is usually swamped with newsletters. Half of which I keep until I read, and the other half of which gets filtered through my Bulk mail where I don't miss it if I don't see it. The ones that make it through sit there looking at me until I read them. But usually I […]
» Read more...Month: August 2003
Adventures in Buying Sand
Here's a funny account of book buying that came to my inbox today. I love it when strangers write in. Dear Friends, While on the road, I decided to stop in at a typical mall bookstore and see if they had a copy of SIMB. This particular mall bookstore happened to be located in the […]
» Read more...Bestseller!
“Collection of ridiculous and sublime travel experiences” That's what it says next to our title in this week's San Francisco Chronicle Bay Area Bestseller List We made #10 of ten on the Paperbacks list today. It is fitting because this is the first time in ten years that Travelers’ Tales has been on the list. […]
» Read more...Gone Back to Print—Again!
We have more than 16,000 books shipped from our warehouse, and now we've put an order in for another 3500. This will be the third time the book has gone to the printer since the initial print run of 10,000. If you're thinking to yourself, “why don't they just print more so they don’t have […]
» Read more...Have you Seen the Sandmobile?
This is the sandspotting report sheet for the September – October 2003 Sand in My Bra book tour. If you’ve seen me and the pink beast on the road, let us know where and when. If you email us a digital picture of the Sandmobile, we’ll enter you in a drawing to win 10 FREE […]
» Read more...The Pressure
Am I a warden and time the jailbreaking convict? Or maybe I am the bullys on their bicycles with time being Forrest Gump. I can hear Jenny yelling, “Run Forrest! Run!” Thank you for your continued patience while nothing has been on the blog. I'm trying to kick arse booking the tour with an avalanche […]
» Read more...Hold Tight
I've got a lot to recap from the weekend at Book Passage, but I'm rushing out to pick up the pink car.
» Read more...Bay Area Women Who Have Self Published
The Wild Writing Women are mentioned in Adair Lara's article in the SF Chronicle Datebook section, today. Here’s to the ladies who launch: Bay Area women team up to publish their own books. Also mentioned are Travelers’ Tales contributors Terri Hinte and Barbara Baer.
» Read more...Is it Christmas Yet?
I really really want this. Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers (Random House, 2003) by Katherine Lederer One woman's autobiographical account of how her intellectual family turned into professional gamblers. The publishers say “An unflinching exploration of trust and betrayal, competition, suspicion, and unconventional familial love, Poker Face is a testament to the human spirit’s […]
» Read more...The Buzz is Building
Flattery will get you everywhere. I was Googling (has that made the dictionary yet? v. the act of searching for information on the website Google.com) Sand in My Bra today. Once I got past all the Written Road, BootsnAll related, and Amazon links…. there were all sorts of reviews that I didn’t know about. One […]
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