Sarah E. Moffett

Tattered Cover
Denver, CO
There are bookstores. Then there is the Tattered Cover. Situated on Colfax Avenue in Denver, it occupies a former theater with lofty, high ceilings, and is composed of achingly tall bookshelves, velvety green carpeting, and a world of books unlike any I had ever seen. Walking in, I half expected to hear the […]

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Barnes & Nobles of…
Colorado Springs, CO
Loveland, CO
Week 9.
Seven hours of traveling, 59 blackberry e-mails, and six voicemails later, I’ve realized there is an upside to traveling. You are incommunicado.
I wonder if my publisher would pay for a book event in Hong Kong.
With this positive perspective, Kerouac, the laptop, the favorite pen, and I took to […]

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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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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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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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