….So please spread the word about my reading tomorrow at Books & Co at the Greene Shopping Center in Dayton. If you know anyone that lives in or around Dayton, demand that they come and ask lots of questions and buy lots of books.
I’ve got this sneaking suspicion that the snow and ice is really going to hurt the turnout. And that would be bad for my ego….
I had a great book signing in Union City this weekend. I got to see a lot of people I haven’t seen in a long time, which was awesome, plus they bought a lot of books – 33!
Tomorrow I’ll be at Indiana University speaking to a composition class in the morning and to the Global Village community from 6-8 PM at Collins Hall.
On Thursday, I’ll at Books & Co. in Dayton at the Greene Mall. Here’s the flyer they sent me promoting the event:
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Reviewer Emma Jacobs doesn’t waste any time or, for that matter, the first two sentences before telling us what she thinks:
Kelsey Timmerman’s investigation into the underbelly of globalisation is moronic. I am not being unkind.
My favorite part is how she begins one paragraph, “His ignorance is occasionally amusing.” (Wait, is that a compliment? Did I charm her with my ignorance?) And then begins another paragraph, “Ultimately his ignorance is maddening…” (Darn! I thought I had her.)
I expected bad reviews (maybe not to this extent) and I’ve received one. No big deal. I don’t expect to be the first author ever to not receive a far less than glowing review. …
I’ll be doing a signing at the Union City, IN, Hallmark store this weekend. I expect a fairly decent turnout since Union City is my hometown, as much as a country bumpkin has a hometown. I even mention UC in Where Am I Wearing?:
I didn’t get my first pair of new underwear until I was five. I was a younger brother and younger brothers wear hand-me-downs, even underwear. I never had a pair I could call my own until Mom decided that I deserved a pair of Scooby-Doo Underoos for being good while she shopped in The Boston Store, a small family clothing store where everybody knew everybody and the store clerks knew how to measure and make adjustments. The Boston Store has since gone out of…
As if President Obama didn’t have enough on his plate…
“I beg US President Barack Obama to help Cambodian people find the criminals to bring them to justice,” opposition leader Sam Rainsy told a crowd Thursday at the spot where Chea Vichea was shot.
I’ve documented my obsessions with Indiana Jones here before. Richard Squires, a reader of WAIW? who is now a facebook friend, hooked me up with a great piece of photoshoppery. I plan on using this as my new bio photo everywhere. Maybe Wiley will let me use it on the WAIW? paperback…How awesome would that be?
Thanks Richard!…
There aren’t a whole lot of ways for me to tell how my book is doing without bugging my publisher (and if you must know, both my publisher and agent are pleased with sales). So, one of the few ways I can tell is to check my Amazon rank, which has been anywhere from 10,000 to 300,000, but the rank can vary by 100,000 or so per day and really still doesn’t offer much insight.
In order to come up with some kind of benchmark, I started to check the rank of Joe The Plumber’s new book – Joe the Plumber: Fighting for the American Dream. I found that Where Am I Wearing and Fighting for the American Dream were waging quite an Amazon sales…
From President Obama’s inaugural address:
And to those nations like ours that enjoy relative plenty, we say we can no longer afford indifference to the suffering outside our borders, nor can we consume the world’s resources without regard to effect. For the world has changed, and we must change with it.
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…or at least my book is.
You can check out a brief intro to Where Am I Wearing? and a Q&A with me….
The Spain-based website Rebellion.org has translated my recent contribution to Neatorama.
Viva la Revoluccion!…
