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…
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37 postsJen Leo Interview on GoNomad.com
GoNomad.com was nice enough to interview me this month. Jen Leo: Bra, Panties, and Talent Their support has a lot to do with travel writer Kent E. St. John being a huge Travelers' Tales fan. As it turns…
Read more →The Queer Eye on Whose Panties Are These?
On Monday night the Left Coast Writers had an event at Book Passage featuring Michael Shapiro in the Travel Annex. At the same time, Carson Kressley from "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" was having a…
Read more →Contributors Push Our Panties!
Enormous thanks to Canadian contributors Michele Petersen and Colleen Friesen for their efforts in spreading the good Panties word at their Travel Media Showcase in Tucson. Check out their display. One…
Read more →Whose Panties on a Bestseller List
Being back at the TT office gets me into the news first hand. Whose Panties Are These? was just ranked as #14 on the Southern California Booksellers Association's Bestseller list for the week ending…
Read more →What is a lame event?
I'm not usually negative about events. Even when nobody shows up. Come on, I've done plenty of events where there were only three people in the audience. They don't surprise me. But that's usually because…
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 →Meet Me in LA Tonight!
I love Distant Lands! Last year Sand in My Bra was their #1 best selling title. A true honor. Well, it's time to encourage Whose Panties Are These? to do the same. Come out with me tonight! Where: Distant…
Read more →My Latest Publicity Stunt
I'm at Travelers' Tales today going through our media database and sending off radio pitches. I must be hungry for brownies and ice cream or something because I just took my PR crazyness to a new level.…
Read more →Litsqueeeak, I mean Litquake
Another occassion of low expectations turning out pretty dern all right. I had my 20th appearance for Whose Panties Are These? at the "The Wide World of Travel Writing" leg of the Litquake Pub Crawl. The…
Read more →Rolf Potts: The Man, The Myth, the Hottie
So, here I am cruising around the country doing author events for my latest book . The way these events go, you talk about the book, you read from the book, you talk about the process of making the book,…
Read more →Dinner with Booksellers
This year I was the guest author for our sales rep to show around at the Great Lakes Booksellers Association Fall Trade Show. John Mesjak, who covers the Midwest for our distributor Publishers Group West,…
Read more →Author Signing at the GLBA 2004
Ha ha! It looks like I am posting before Jay Gesin . We did not end up doing any head to head blogging in the lobby this morning. I slept in, and oh how I needed it. There is a small chance I might…
Read more →Meet Me in Chicago at the Savvy Traveller!
TONIGHT is the big event at The Savvy Traveller . For those of you who will be coming by there are three things to note: 1) It starts at 6pm. (We had it previously listed as 7pm) The store is located on…
Read more →Well, the Debate was More Important
Tonight's event was in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Home of those pesky UM Wolverines. The staff at Nicola's Little Professor were very excited to have us there. And I was happy to finally get to meet contributor…
Read more →Talking With My Mouthful
So I was on the phone with Susan this afternoon asking her to get some books shipped to Wordstock 2004 this weekend...all of a sudden she asks me "Are you eating junk food?" at which point I realize I…
Read more →More Great Underwear!
You are not going to believe what these clever women are turning in . I don't know how we are going to pick one winner. I might have to make an addendum to this contest and give out some ribbons or…
Read more →Whose Panties at Third Place Books
I had been talking up Third Place Books to Deanna and Barb all week. Last year , it ranked as the most fun of all the events on the West Coast. Size-wise it was in the top five with 60 people, but it was…
Read more →Appreciating Non Fame in Seattle
Thanks to the free wireless at Elliott Bay Book Company , I'm sitting near the entrance to my next author event. So far, I am not famous enough for anyone to recognize me. I'm watching and waiting to see…
Read more →The Question Everyone is Asking...
Apparently, the underwear titles are quite a hit. I'm starting to get a taste of what Tim Cahill must go through following his titles like Jaguars Ripped My Flesh , and Pecked to Death By Ducks . Everyone…
Read more →Whose Panties at Wide World Books & Maps in Seattle
First of all, I think Seattle is the best town to do author events in on the West Coast. We've got five readings lined up, all at indie stores mind you, and none of them are worried about competing with…
Read more →No Panties at Powell's
Yesterday I went in to the Powell's Travel Store on Pioneer Square. I wasn't that surprised when I didn't see a copy of Whose Panties Are These? out on their front tables. I figured they probably just…
Read more →A Taste of the Rock Star Life
The Panties tour goes to Portland, Oregon. There wasn't a large amphitheatre, blinding lights, or thousands of fans screaming my name, but the Portland crowd at 23rd Avenue Books came to have a good time…
Read more →Whose Panties Event at Bloomsbury Books
The drive up to Ashland was easy. I've done it several times before and mostly knew how far away I was. But I did push it. I had stayed at home until 1:30pm and got to town in just enough time before the…
Read more →The Fancy Pants Pictures Are Up!
Oh my gosh you ladies are funny! Susan masterminded this hilarious promotional stunt, and it's a crack up. Decorated panties are coming in to the office and we've got them up on WhosePanties.com. Check…
Read more →Thanks for the Great Kick Off!
Well, I'll admit that this tour came up so fast I still haven't told everyone and am annoying people right and left as I call at the last minute to tell them that I'm coming to town. As Jack Nicholson…
Read more →Whose Panties at Easy Going in Berkeley
I loved kicking off the tour at Easy Going though it was not without a rocky start. GraceAnn Walden was unable to make it, and I had been stuck on a runway in Vegas all afternoon not knowing when I'd get…
Read more →EVENTS! Up the West Coast & in the Midwest
Come on out to an event for Whose Panties Are These?! the laugh-out-loud sequel to Sand in My Bra . Events start this week in the Bay Area, and will continue through October in more than 20 locations.…
Read more →I Think We Need To Party!
My stress is showing. People are looking at me funny. I'm barking at Rolf in comments sections. I'm having bad dreams and begging a Canadian to meet me in Vegas. Well, that's nothing new, I invite most…
Read more →Publicity Wish List
Whose Panties Are These? is back from the printer and it looks GREAT! I saw the boxes come in today while I was trying to make some PR headway at the TT office. Michael was also there working on some…
Read more →These Things Happen
On Friday night I got an email from Larry that said two of our book excerpts were being cut from the TOC. One was from Sarah Macdonald's Holy Cow! and the other from It's Not About the Tapas by Polly…
Read more →Chop.Chop.Chop.
I am now into the fifth revision of my story for the Panties book. The original version was way too long, somewhat offensive, and did that thing I hate the most when reading other writers' stories—I did…
Read more →Final Stretch
Sorry to have been remiss this week. I've had my head down working on the final manuscript. Right now I'm working on the epilogues to the stories and getting my own story written and rewritten and…
Read more →Back to the Shop
As you know I've been editing Whose Panties Are These? on the road in Europe. Well, that is coming to an end and I head back to the States today. There's lots of work to be done back at Traveler's Tales…
Read more →Almost there...
I'm wrapping up my first selection to turn into Travelers' Tales. But let me tell you, it's going to be harder to get stories printed, and copied, than it was to choose which stories made me laugh and…
Read more →If You Wanna Get in the Book...
...stop emailing me and asking me if you made it. Actually, I can be much nicer. I am still reading submissions and we have not made any final decisions regarding the TOC. That's: table of contents.…
Read more →Editing Whose Panties Are These
I'm in full gear editing the sequel to Sand in My Bra. I checked in with Travelers' Tales this week, and Sean O'Reilly who reads most of the submissions as they come in, is sending me his grades on the…
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