New Perceptive Travel
Perceptive Travel has released its latest issue, July/August . The ezine is published by World's Cheapest Destinations author Tim Leffel and features the work of travel (and other) writers with at least…
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145 postsDon George's New Website: Don's Place
In case you hadn't heard, Don George left Lonely Planet. He celebrated the new year with new beginnings and stepped away from his position of six years as their Global Travel Editor. Today, he launched…
Read more →I Just Joined Amazon Connect
Amazon has a new program called Amazon Connect that lets authors interact with their fans/book buyers. It says that it's only open to a select group of authors to launch the program, but I signed up and…
Read more →Post a picture on Amazon with your review
I just saw on CNET that Amazon has a new feature where reviewers can post a pic with their words. "Amazon lets customers post photos" I checked out the page for Sand in My Bra but there weren't any there.…
Read more →Will Saddam Hussein Read Sand in My Bra?
World Hum has a hilarious post on their blog today about Saddam's potential new hobby as an armchair traveller. Jim suggested a few books for him to open while he's biding his time, and Sand in My Bra…
Read more →Distant Lands 2003 Book of the Year
WOW. Huge thanks, Distant Lands! Sand in My Bra was just named 2003 Book of the Year from Distant Lands in Pasadena. This came as quite a surprise. I had just said hello to Adrian, one of the Distant…
Read more →The Curse of the Singles Table: A True Story of 1001 Nights Without Sex
Suzanne Schlosberg, a contributor to Sand in My Bra, is going on tour with her new book: THE CURSE of the SINGLES TABLE A True Story of 1001 Nights Without Sex She begins her book tour next week and will…
Read more →Sandy Sales Overseas
If you thought I was done promoting Sand in My Bra, you were wrong. I had a terrific event with the American Women's Club in Belgium today. It was held for the Mothers of Young Children group, but open to…
Read more →Yahooo, Thanks Again NATJA
I got the Chicago trip! Full details to come, but I'm very pleased. EVERYONE I know wanted me to get the Maldives trip but it was such a romantic getaway, I might've stressed all year about a date. No…
Read more →Thanks Canterbury Books
I was shocked today to find out that Canterbury Bookstore in Madison, Wisconsin is closing. I had just been thinking about them the other day when I was debating on doing an end of the year roundup of…
Read more →We Need Steve Irwin!
We got an email this week unlike any other we've ever received. It was from our Australian distributor, Tower Books, saying that our shipment of 200 copies of Sand in My Bra was held up on the docks in…
Read more →THANKS NATJA!!!!
I was quite pleased with myself for taking a couple days off the computer while returning from Detroit and getting my things together before Belgium. Now I know better. I missed a huge email that said I…
Read more →The Winning Bra!
And the Winner Is..... The "Tropical Delight" bra! Joyce Block from Chicago who donated her bra at The Savvy Traveller on October 9 is the winner of ten free autographed copies of Sand in My Bra and Other…
Read more →Home Sweet Homecoming
I am officially back. Some were suprised to see me at the Tim Cahill event last week at Easy Going, but that's because it was stealth. I hadn't told people I was back yet, for sanity's sake. I crashed…
Read more →Sand at Charis Books in Atlanta
The event at Charis Books Wednesday night was a great way to end the tour! Most of the women's events I've been to have been rather small, so I wasn't expecting much. To my surprise, Charis is in a league…
Read more →Return to Memphis
Memphis was so great the last time around, I came back. Royal Stewart and Hugh Hollowell of Midtown Books on Madison were so good to me how could I not return? Seriously, it felt like we were instant…
Read more →Sand at Harry Schwartz in WI
I went to Milwaukee to give some books to radio stations. More guerrilla marketing. And now I'm going to quote Jack Nicholson from that movie where he's an obsessive compulsive. "Don't you be like me!"…
Read more →Q and A
Here are some questions that I've been asked this week: Q. Are you burned out? A. No. I'm not burned out, but I feel a lot of self pressure to make this last ten days or so worthwhile. That stress can…
Read more →Sand in Packerville
Chicago to Green Bay, WI is a nice drive. It doesn't quite have the serenity of Virginia and Eastern Tennessee, but oh how I love all this farmland. Who knows if I'd go stir crazy if I actually lived in…
Read more →It's Blitz Time!
I'm in the final stretch of the tour, and only have three events scheduled. So, this weekend I made more flyers and put togther some covers/mkg blurbs to pass out at the many schools that are here in and…
Read more →Sand at the Savvy Traveller
I finally got to THE Savvy Traveller. This is the best travel store in the country and I've looked up to them since I first heard about them in my early years at Travelers' Tales. I tried to tell this to…
Read more →Look Who's Jumping on the Bandwagon
I just did a Google search for Sand in My Bra and found new sites that are helping us promote the book. North Shore libraries in New Zealand...I think I should go do an event there. Thanks to Sue…
Read more →I Should've Known
I had a feeling this morning that I shouldn't be going to the event today at the Grailville Art Center. It wasn't a stong feeling, just one of concern. So I called. The coordinator sounded like he had…
Read more →Sand and the First Lady
When I got to the National Bookfest on the mall in DC, I noticed a camera crew around a small mass of people. Then I saw the body guards. But they just weren't any bodyguards. I dropped my load, grabbed a…
Read more →A Day of Looks
Nashville, TN to Roanoke, VA was a gorgeous drive. I was pretty tired, but couldn't get enough of the red barns and rolling green country side. I'll spare you the cliche adjectives, but it was a pleasant…
Read more →I Need Some Help
I'm just leaving a good rest outside of Nashville, TN. I have a long day of driving and then I'll be shelving all embarrassment brain nodes and spreading the Sand-word stealth style in DC at the National…
Read more →The Books are Selling without Me!
Steve's Books, Tulsa, OK Book Sales: 19 Reading attendees: 0 Square Books, Oxford, Mississippi ( I just love spelling that out!) Book Sales: 60+ Signing attendees: 2 Hey, I don' care! Sand in My Bra is…
Read more →Sand at the Ranch
Friday was a much better day. About a dozen hours of driving from Santa Fe, NM to Oklahoma City, OK. The Indian casinos have slowly dwindled down. And the sage brush has turned to flat green lots with the…
Read more →Sand in the SouthwestPART II
Yesterday was a bad day. The first of all misadventures that didn't end up with any decent stories. I missed my event with the Travel Bug in Santa Fe, NM. Bad calculations, forgot about the time…
Read more →Sand in the SouthwestPART I
The Bramobile needs some BlingBling. As you heard, I had to leave the pink one in San Diego. The new rental is no sight for sore eyes. I've had our blue and white sign on the back hood where it says: Sand…
Read more →Sand at Distant Lands
Distant Lands has become one of my faves. Louann and Angel are always good to me. They were out of Sand so I stopped by while I was in LA to bring them some signed copies. She took ten and said they go…
Read more →Sand with APEX
Sometime over the summer I used Craigslist to catch an inexpensive ride down to Los Angeles. I had blogged about this and meeting Kelly Eom from the Asian Professional Exchange. Over the following weeks…
Read more →We Got THE Call!
I'll let you guess who called us today: 1) OPRAH's producer asking for a book and press kit 2) JANE Magazine wanting to interview me for a segment on women who are creating their own success while living…
Read more →The BraMobile
I know you need a picture. I will try hard to get you one tonight. But suffice it to say that she's never looked better. Susan drove me to San Rafael to pick it up on Sunday. A few hours later Jennifer…
Read more →Meet Me in Berkeley!
Hey Bay Area WR fans, I'll be at Easy Going in Berkeley this Sunday from 1-3:00pm. Yep, with the BraMobile. Just hanging out, signing books if you don't already have one, and chatting with travel lovers…
Read more →Another Bestseller List for Sand in My Bra
Slap me for thinking this isn't quite right. Is it fair that Sand in My Bra made it higher on the Book Sense Bestseller list for Humor (Sept 4, 2003) than Bill Bryson, Garrison Keillor, and The Onion?…
Read more →Sand at Third Place Books
The drive from Portland to Seattle was pleasantly uneventful. Jennifer Colvin, who wrote "Cultural Exposure," is from the Olympia area. She had flown up to do the Portland and Seattle events with me since…
Read more →Sand at Annie Bloom's in Portland, OR
Thanks to Dave Keener of BootsnAll, I arrived at the event on time and without incident. When we pulled up on the street that is home to Multnomah Village, I let out some ohhs and ahhs as if I'd just come…
Read more →Getting Out of Town
I was so happy to get out of town. I will not bore you the details of the 48 hours leading up to it except to tell you that the pink BraMobile is in the shop and I am in a red rental car. In fact, I was…
Read more →The BraMobile Gets a New Strap
OK, I'm just going to say bugger off to all the naysayers. Thanks for the advice, Larry. The poor baby is in the shop and due to get a new alternator tomorrow. That will atleast get it started and able to…
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