In publishers’ evolving efforts to replace expensive and ineffective author appearances, “presell tours” are increasingly targeting booksellers, according to an article by Malcolm Jones of Newsweek. “Presell tours” bring authors… Read more »
A veteran of the war in Vietnam waited patiently on line at a Jane Fonda booksigning in Kansas City Tuesday night and spit tobacco juice in her face when it… Read more »
On a book tour for her bestseller How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must), which was released last October, Ann Coulter “waded into the adopted hometown of the… Read more »
Beginning her book tour with a bang, Jane Fonda says sitting at an anti-aircraft gun during her 1972 visit to North Vietnam was “the largest lapse of judgment that I… Read more »
The Australasian book tour of Cherie Blair, “the prime minister’s wife, as she is billed in publicity,” got off to a rocky start when, speaking in Auckland, she “left the impression… Read more »
Saying that she finds book tours are made up of “angst, inconvenience, starvation, sitting in airports, and eating out of minibars,” Margaret Atwood has invented “a remote book-signing machine that… Read more »