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Last month, as Roswell or Bust was released, I had the idea that, since the book starts and ends in Las Vegas, New Mexico, I should put together a some kind of promotional event in Las Vegas. I started with the Chamber of Commerce and the bookstore I found on the web, and the school system (since the protagonist was a high schooler). It was a good plan, with a bookstore signing and some kind of school visit.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, it all fell apart. There were email addresses and phone numbers that didn’t work. When I couldn’t make any contact with the bookstore and the school principal was so tied up in end-of-school-year activities that he was never available when I called, I got the message and put it all on hold. Better to try again in the fall when I’d have more access to the students.<\/div>\n
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Luckily, that was the right call. My mother’s health went down hill and I found myself in Amarillo spending my days in the hospital room when I had envisioned being in New Mexico. Interesting how these things seem to happen.<\/div>\n
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But now, her health is better and she’s getting care to rebuild her strength, and I was no longer needed to sit by her bed. And New Mexico was just a couple of hours away. So, with no plan, no schedule, and no pre-arrangements, I got on I-40 and headed west. With a box or two of books and a stack of book fliers, I’m visiting town after town, looking for bookstores and libraries to visit.<\/div>\n
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After this first day, it’s been moderately successful. I’ve met people, made contacts, donated a book or two, and sold some where I had little hope of placing them. It’s encouraging. I’m in Taos tonight and I’ll be visiting bookstores here and then moving south, seeing what I can find. More current updates will happen on Twitter.<\/div>\n
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Then after a few days, I’ll swing back to Amarillo and check on Mother. I hope. One thing I’ve noticed. Even when the idea is good, never fall in love with your plans, because they never survive.<\/div>\n
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Last month, as Roswell or Bust was released, I had the idea that, since the book starts and ends in Las Vegas, New Mexico, I should put together a some kind of promotional event in Las Vegas. I started with the Chamber of Commerce and the bookstore I found on the web, and the school… Continue reading A Book Tour, Sort of…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[367,102,56],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-FU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2599,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598\/revisions\/2599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}