As a traveler, I should probably count myself fortunate to be living in the jet age, and as an author, I know I am lucky to have a book tour at all.
When you start at catering college, nobody prepares you for a book tour or public speaking.
I have a stack of those plastic card hotel room keys that I picked up on this latest book tour. It's about a yard tall. Ah yes, a stack of lonely nights.
For years I drove cross-country, back and forth a dozen times, sometimes on book tour, sometimes just to get lost and found.
I've never been much of a European traveler. London once on a book tour, and Italy because that's where Ferraris are from. That's about it.
Mine's going to be the best book tour that ever happened!
Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book.
The origin of 'Lenny Letter,' it started because Lena went on her book tour, and she had these audiences, young women, really diverse and looking for guidance.
When I get back from this book tour, I'm planning to learn the internet. Maybe I can hook up in cyberspace.
I have to finish this book tour of almost 30 cities.
Whenever I'm on a book tour, one of the questions I always get asked is what to wear to various occasions.
The book tour is a strange institution. You are wheeled about to explain your book and even to justify it.
Writers like to feel sorry for themselves, which is easy to do in private, but when called on to feel sorry for ourselves in social situations, we will often do so by sharing terrible book tour stories.
Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.
The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
Business book writing for me is when some set of ideas gets stuck in my mind, I write a book about it. I haven't got a theory and I haven't got a framework.
My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.
Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actually, in the word of the publisher, she's 'collaborating' on a book. What an embarrassment! It's one of these 'I told you,' books that jocks do.
Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.
Creative people feel huge ownership of our content; we want everything to be done ourselves. But in book writing, there's a process: editors, PR people.
