Sarah E. Moffett

Anti-book tour.
Week 4.
July is nearly over, and I’m celebrating from the patio of my Grandparents’ home in North Carolina. And it’s hot. And there are mosquitoes. And Faulkner-esq delusions induced by heat stroke. Celebration over. I’m moving inside.
<5 minutes later.>
You’d think not being on book tour would enable one to focus on such publishing necessities […]

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A midnight Barnes and Noble experience, near death by trampling, faux-reserve wrist band, some serious line cutting, eight hours, half a bottle of champagne, tea, more tea, and still drinking tea, forty-five reading positions (from which I have yet to recover), an entire box of Cheese-its, and one brilliant book, it’s done.  And I have only […]

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What does one do when they are no longer on book tour?Beautiful things.
You…
1.    Eat warm croissants wrapped around wedges of fresh cheese while sipping Baileys and coffee on the patio as the rain falls.2.    Lazily page through Dharma Bums, Cat’s Cradle, and try to incorporate Vonnegut’s passé cynicism that “the mind reels” into every possible conversation, including one with […]

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Women of the Word
Council Bluffs, Iowa
Borders
Lee’s Summit, Missouri
Barnes & Noble (Plaza)
Kansas City, Missouri
Thirty-six hours after Mother and I had returned from our 450 mile road trip, we embarked on a slightly shorter one—421 miles—along the same languid stretch of I-435/29. In the words of one immortal writer, we returned from whence we came. Or in […]

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Barnes & Nobles of . . .
Independence, Missouri
Omaha, Nebraska
Council Bluffs, Iowa
Week Seven
And God said, let there be humidity, and there was Missouri. And God said let there be heat, and there was Kansas City. And God said, let there be book tours, and there was my publisher frowning at me.
[After the whirlwind of the past […]

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Cross Road Bookstore
Barnes & Noble (Brier Creek Commons)
Roxboro and Raleigh, North Carolina
Week Six
This past Friday morning, I returned to the land of Faulkner, sweetened ice tea, grits served 45 different ways, and the five syllable “hhh—eee—llllll—ooo—ooo.” North Carolina.
“In my mind I’m gone to Carolina/ Can’t you see the sunshine?/ Can’t you just feel the moonshine? […]

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Barnes & Noble (Short Pump)
CBS 6
Fountain Bookstore
Richmond, Virginia
Week Five
Elie Wiesel said “I write to understand as much to be understood.” I wonder what he said about promoting books . . .
Richmond. My other East Coast home.
May 19. Barnes and Noble of Short Pump. Ever been a greeter at a retail store or in a church? […]

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Buzz
Alexandria, Virginia
Week Four
 
Book tour is wonderful. I LOVE book tour.  It makes me so happy to be on book tour.
 
[Yes, I’ve read Ann Patchett’s book tour journal and am shamelessly following her lead.  Hopefully my experiences will not include being skunked though.]
 
May 2, I pulled up in front of Buzz, the latest installment in the […]

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EMU & Tryst
Harrisonburg, Virginia
Washington, D.C.
Week Three
Saturday morning, I woke up to my alarm. I don’t like waking up. I really don’t like doing it on Saturdays. And absolutely, most definitely, not to an alarm. Alas, the alma mater called, and seeing as they saw fit to give me a college degree, it seemed like a […]

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