Maybe This Time: The Tour
Jul302010
Yes, if there’s a book out, there must be a tour. It’s only seven cities because I’m a wimp–hey I did forty cities in one year once, I paid my dues–but they’re all good bookstores so I’m very happy. Oh, and don’t yell at me about these cities, SMP set them up (although I did refuse to get on a plane, so you can yell a little).
COLUMBUS, OH
Tuesday, Sept. 7th 7:00 PM
BARNES & NOBLE
1739 Olentangy River Road
Columbus, OH 43212
DAYTON, OH
Wednesday, Sept. 8th 7:00 PM
BOOKS & CO.
350 E. Stroop Rd.
Dayton, OH 45429
CINCINNATI, OH
Thursday Sept 9, 7:00 PM
JOSEPH BETH BOOKSELLERS
2692 Madison Rd.
Cincinnati, OH 45208
LEXINGTON, KY
Tuesday, September 14th, 7:00 PM
JOSEPH BETH BOOKSELLERS
161 Lexington Green Circle
Lexington, KY 40503
CHICAGO, IL
Monday, September 20th, 7:00 PM
ANDERSON’S BOOKSHOP
123 W. Jefferson St.
Naperville, IL 60540
MILWAUKEE, WI
Tuesday, September 21st, 7:00 PM
Next Chapter Bookshop
10976 N. Port Washington Road
Mequon, Wisconsin • 53092
PITTSBURGH, PA
Friday, Sept. 24th, 7PM
Mystery Lovers Bookshop
514 Allegheny River Boulevard
Oakmont, PA 15139
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113 Comments to 'Maybe This Time: The Tour'
On July 30, 2010 at 7:42 am Ruth said...
Jen, Just curious but why did you refuse to get on a plane? (Not that I blame you, not one bit)
On July 30, 2010 at 8:26 am Jenny said...
I have a blood disease that makes it more likely that I’ll stroke out on a plane. I didn’t take it too seriously until I went into blinding pain over one eye on a flight, worst pain I’ve ever had, insane pain, that stopped as soon as we landed. My hematologist said, “That was a blood vessel trying to burst.” So if it’s not an emergency (aka, my kid needs me), I don’t fly. And a book tour is not an emergency. It’s the reason I’m missing Nationals, too. Too far to drive in a day or two and not an emergency.
On July 30, 2010 at 8:29 am Betty Fokker said...
I am really, really glad it did not burst. That would be bad. 60 foot twinkie bad.
On July 30, 2010 at 11:17 am Ruth said...
That is so scary! No wonder you won’t set foot on a plane…jeez
On July 30, 2010 at 8:47 pm inkgrrl said...
Oh jeebus babe, I’m so sorry it’s that bad. Definitely not something to repeat.
On July 30, 2010 at 7:51 am Chelle said...
Cool, there’s at least two I’ll be able to get to. Although I am going to whine a bit about Lexington. Why? Louisville is way bigger! (grumble, grumble).
But, so happy to see you again soon!
On July 30, 2010 at 8:22 am Jenny said...
Louisville didn’t have a venue. Not sure why, but it was on the list and then it wasn’t.
I did say, “But that’s Chelle’s city!” but they didn’t listen. Can’t wait to see you again, babe.
On July 30, 2010 at 9:37 am emily said...
Carmichael’s is a great venue, David Sedaris came there!
You’re not the only one grumbling in this city, Chelle, i can’t make the Cinti or Lex dates because of work.
On July 30, 2010 at 10:08 am Jenny said...
It wasn’t me, I swear. Something happened to Louisville date.
On July 30, 2010 at 3:24 pm Shiloh said...
Hey some of us are in Colorado and other far away places and can’t make it all!
On July 30, 2010 at 8:10 am Dana Oetker said...
Please Please add one more stop…. IOWA. You are so close.
On July 30, 2010 at 8:23 am Jenny said...
Close? Not even. Jeez.
On July 30, 2010 at 9:51 pm shannyn said...
I’m in Chicago, but Iowa is only another 4 hours away.
On July 30, 2010 at 8:29 am WapakGram said...
Good Grief, the Cherry Bombs could invade 3 cities in 3 nights in Ohio! Off to plot strategy. Nothing but Good Times ahead!
On July 30, 2010 at 8:31 am Betty Fokker said...
I am close to a couple of those cities. The Fokker will come to see you. Admit it. You’re a little excited aren’t you?
On July 30, 2010 at 10:03 am Jenny said...
Yes, yes, YES!
On July 30, 2010 at 3:48 pm Betty Fokker said...
I knew it. But no tongue kissing if there are cameras around. And only over the clothes petting.
On July 30, 2010 at 9:52 pm shannyn said...
Which one, Fokker? We could stage our own Betty invasion.
On July 30, 2010 at 11:37 pm Betty Fokker said...
I can do Cincinnati or Lexington … which would work for the Betty-Cherry-Fokker-Jamboree?
On August 1, 2010 at 1:57 pm Clever Cherry aka Judy Long said...
Lexington would work better for me – I can do Cinci, also, though.
On July 30, 2010 at 8:32 am Betty Fokker said...
BTW — why not Indy? It’s as much in range as Lexington.
On July 30, 2010 at 8:47 am Amanda Chesshir said...
I have to agree. I am in Kokomo. It is only a 4 hour drive to Ohio but I do not have the time for that.
On July 30, 2010 at 10:04 am Jenny said...
It doesn’t appear to be a “book city.” Evidently some cities are great book tour cities and some aren’t. I don’t get it, either, but there’s already seven cities on there and I like staying home, so I’m not agitating for more.
On August 1, 2010 at 2:03 pm Clever Cherry aka Judy Long said...
Actually Cinci is on a Thursday which would be much harder for me.
On July 30, 2010 at 8:44 am me said...
Dayton had better start battening down the hatches…
On July 30, 2010 at 9:11 am Carrie said...
I guess I should be informing my roomate from college that I am about to mooch hospitality from her in Pittsburgh. Unless, the extra couple of hours to Philadelphia would be worth it? Philadelphia people love you! (based on my research that it was damn near impossible to find a copy of Wild Ride – they kept selling out!)
On July 30, 2010 at 10:05 am Jenny said...
I like Philadelphia, too, but nope. Not on the list.
On July 30, 2010 at 9:15 am Absolute Cherry said...
You’re coming back to Milwaukee – squee! And Mequon isn’t too far away from the Hotel Metro, famed in song and story for fabulous bathrooms…
On July 30, 2010 at 10:06 am Jenny said...
I LOVED the Hotel Metro, it’s amazing, but Bob drove there and swore the whole time so I told them to put me up outside the city. He swore Milwaukee was Indian for “Land Without Road Signs.” But if he was driving again, we’d be at the Hotel Metro.
On July 30, 2010 at 11:26 am Absolute Cherry said...
I remember poor Bob’s Milwaukee experience – I swear, we look MUCH less like Beirut these days. (Beirut doesn’t have waterlogged sinkholes).
On July 30, 2010 at 1:55 pm Jenny said...
You have sinkholes, too? I just remember the entire city being torn up.
On July 30, 2010 at 4:59 pm Absolute Cherry said...
Yes, but it made for such a great blog post after you finally escaped.
During a big rain storm about a week ago, a twenty foot deep sinkhole suddenly opened up in the middle of a busy intersection and swallowed an SUV and one extremely surprised driver. He managed to crawl back out again with some help, but was still pretty incoherent on CNN two days later. Driving in this city is not for the faint of heart.
On July 30, 2010 at 11:43 am Kelly S said...
Huh, I always thought Milwaukee was easy to navigate. I like it much better than Chicago. Michigan sucks at road signage, but mostly for the streets, not the highways.
On July 30, 2010 at 12:05 pm Absolute Cherry said...
Compared to Chicago the moon would be easy to navigate, IMHO. Downtown Milwaukee was in construction Hell the last time the Bob and Jenny show swung through here. Really, it’s better now. Honest!
On July 30, 2010 at 2:00 pm Jenny said...
And then there was trying to find the airport. No.
On July 30, 2010 at 9:18 am JulieB said...
Oooh! We’ll have a date in Andersons! I used to work in that town — if you don’t have a “handler” already planning to I’ll buy you dinner! Otherwise, I’ll just hang around and be annoying.
On July 30, 2010 at 10:07 am Jenny said...
SEP has dibs on dinner, I believe, but I’ll keep you posted. She sometimes likes to harass me before I sign in her city.
On July 30, 2010 at 11:30 am JulieB said...
No problem — let me know if she disses you. You can PM me on the forums. I’ll be there either way.
On July 30, 2010 at 1:56 pm Jenny said...
If?
On July 30, 2010 at 3:50 pm Betty Fokker said...
Threaten not to ever decorate her luggage. That will keep her docile.
On July 30, 2010 at 4:27 pm JulieB said...
Har!
On July 30, 2010 at 9:34 am Bea said...
Hooray! I’ve never been to a book… touring… before. I don’t know what you call that. A bookstravaganza? A bookering? Cake? Oooh, will there be cake?
On July 30, 2010 at 10:07 am Jenny said...
No, no, that Jen Weiner. You just get me. Although now that I think of it, I should make banana bread. And then somebody would choke and I’d get sued.
No. No cake.
On July 31, 2010 at 8:08 pm Bea said...
I’d bring cake, except I’ll be sneaking off to this thing during my lunch break, and a cake would never make it through the newsroom intact. News people are pastry people.
On July 30, 2010 at 9:42 am Bethany said...
Maybe I’ll finally visit Pittsburgh. I’d been hoping for Cleveland date so I could pretend to be an awesome daughter and go home to see my parents and then “surprise” my mom with “oh, look who is doing a talk about her new book. we should go to that location and listen” and pretend it wasn’t my reason for going home.
On July 30, 2010 at 10:09 am Jenny said...
Pittsburgh is always a hoot. It’s at the Mystery Lovers Bookstore which is a fairly small store, and Mary Alice packs them in. If you like mysteries, that’s the bookstore that will make your head explode.
On July 30, 2010 at 7:15 pm Becky said...
I got awesome daughter points on the DLD tour. Flew from Houston to Boston to visit the ‘rents and see the Bob and Jenny show. Two birds, one stone.
What? They wouldn’t come to Texas!
On July 30, 2010 at 10:08 am Karen said...
Hmmm. How far is too far for a sane person to drive for a book signing? Luckily Pittsburgh is well within that distance from Northern Virginia.
On July 30, 2010 at 10:09 am Kylee/Sizzlin' Cherry said...
Holy crap, you’re going to be in WI!! Squee! I can’t wait!
On July 30, 2010 at 10:20 am Susie said...
I have the sniffles, my non-boyfriend is ignoring me and I have a long Friday at work ahead of me. But seeing that you’re coming to Pittsburgh in September made me “Whoop!” out loud and definitely improved the outlook for what might have been a crappy day otherwise. Thanks for keeping those of us in the ‘Burgh in mind
I’ll see you in Oakmont on the 24th!
On July 30, 2010 at 11:43 am Kelly S said...
Hope your day keeps getting better!
On July 30, 2010 at 10:21 am Stacia said...
What’s wrong with Harrisburg? Or even better, Allentown? We NJ people would appreciate it.
On July 30, 2010 at 10:28 am Kate G said...
Hmmm, not even I can justify driving to any of those signings. I’ve done some long hauls for little more than boredom relief, but those days are gone. I’ve got too many kids and live in the wrong part of the country. *sigh*
On July 30, 2010 at 10:30 am Dee said...
I suppose Boston’s too far, then, eh? Bummer.
On July 30, 2010 at 10:53 am Holly said...
How about Nashville? Please? We have a great bookstore here called Davis Kidd (owned by Joseph Beth, actually). I would come to Lexington for the signing, but I’m just starting a new job and can’t take an afternoon off to make the drive. Davis Kidd would love to get you, I know.
On July 30, 2010 at 10:59 am Skye said...
It would be insane to fly out just to go to a book signing. Right? Even tho’ it’s Crusie. Right? Even tho’ I’d have to call in the big guns to watch over the Mommy. Right?
On July 30, 2010 at 1:53 pm Jenny said...
Right. Jeez.
On July 30, 2010 at 3:27 pm McB said...
Oh right. Crazy. Who in their right mind would do that? *looks off in the distance, whistling innocently.”
On July 30, 2010 at 11:13 am Mary Stella said...
Sucks about the blood disorder. Exploding blood vessels — NOT a good thing and should be avoided at all costs.
I think you need a custom tour bus and a driver. The dogs could come with you. Hell, with the right tour bus, Krissie and Lani could come, too, while Sweetness and Light are away. Then, you could expand your tour reach but always have your own, comfortable private space to retreat to and relax.
Ahh, or maybe tour the East Coast by yacht. That would work, too, and you could come to Florida.
On July 30, 2010 at 1:54 pm Jenny said...
Don’t think we haven’t thought about both of those. We even looked at RVs. Do you know how expensive those suckers are? And that’s before you pay for the gas.
On July 30, 2010 at 3:34 pm Bethany (Betty Clawed) said...
Ooh, I got to tour the Jonny Cash tourbus in Cleveland (it’s visiting the Rock Hall) and it was amazing. They remodled a greyhound bus, if I remember correctly.
Hm, what if Cherries bring banana bread to the signings to share? Would that have any legal implications?
On July 30, 2010 at 9:33 pm Mary Stella said...
Maybe you could work a deal with a music star who isn’t on tour at the same time. That way you’d only have to borrow the bus. Sure there’s the cost of gas, but if you weigh that against airfare . . .
No, wait, I have it! Relay drivers, like the people that transport rescue animals across country. With all of the Cherries and Betties, we could relay you across the country. A Cherry picks you up in Ohio and gets you to Kentucky. Kentucky Betty cruises you at your pace to North Carolina before connecting with the next driver . . . and so on and so on.
Kidding.
Sort of.
On July 30, 2010 at 10:17 pm Naked Under My Clothes said...
She could get from coast to coast and border to border on Cherry/Betty power.
On July 31, 2010 at 7:18 pm Betty Fokker said...
You know, that might work …
On August 1, 2010 at 1:24 am Ginny said...
I’ll sign up for a leg as long as you don’t make me go through the Alien pick up zone…you know that lonely stretch of highway north of Tallahassee where the aliens always drop in for new abductees.
On August 1, 2010 at 6:34 am Jenny said...
So the RV will be avoiding that stretch . . .
On July 30, 2010 at 11:13 am MJ said...
What a great day. First, the public works people just took away all the flood-damaged junk we had piled up on the curb. Now, I see you’ll be in Mequon. I thought I was gonna have to drive to Naperville. Calendar marked!
On July 30, 2010 at 11:30 am Chris said...
How does the book signing work in Mequon? Do you stay till the last book is signed? I am assuming you will get a ton a people from Milwaukee and maybe Minnesota………And I am known to be tardy-so if I drive will you be there or will I have to try to stalk you? (in a non-creepy way, mind you
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On July 30, 2010 at 1:56 pm Jenny said...
I always stay until the last book is signed, but I don’t know when that’ll be. Could be that three people will show up and we’ll be out of there at eight. You never know.
On July 30, 2010 at 3:28 pm Shiloh said...
Riiiiiiight, just like the contest
On July 30, 2010 at 11:51 am Kelly S said...
I went to one of the book signings for Dogs & Goddesses. You kindly signed an entire bag of Crusie books. Are you willing to do that again, if I bring my collection?
Out of curiosity, not complaining, but why not Toledo or other northern OH city or Michigan? Ann Arbor isn’t too far over the border.
On July 30, 2010 at 1:57 pm Jenny said...
I’ll sign anything anybody brings. The only thing we ask is that you wait until the end of the signing so we’re not holding up a lot of people with one book. If necessary, I will stand in the parking lot and sign them after the store closes.
Oh, and the towns are determined by the bookstores, usually independents, who can bring people into the signing. This determination I do not make.
On July 30, 2010 at 4:26 pm Kelly S said...
Sweet! And I’ll gladly wait.
On July 30, 2010 at 11:58 am Jessie said...
Mary Stella has the right idea. You need to expand your transportation options! Take Amtrak. Arrive at your destination sort of rested. Take Sweetness and Light with you. And the dogs. Then for the next four hours pretend you never saw any of them in your life before as they run up and down the aisle.. Arrive at your destination extremely thankful that’s over.
P. S. Almost nothing can be worse than navigating in Oregon. The traffic engineers find it amusing to put exit signs on the far side of the exit ramp and have lanes turn into exit only lanes about 10 feet from the exit ramp. In other states when there is bad signage we always wonder if they borrowed Oregon’s traffic guys,
On July 30, 2010 at 1:59 pm Jenny said...
If I took Sweetness and Light and the dogs with me, I would arrived at my destination crazed. And covered with dog hair and Cheeto dust.
On July 30, 2010 at 12:04 pm Danielle said...
Since this is my last semester of college, I can’t skip class to road trip up for your book tour. However, I plan to take my fellow Crusie fan friends with me when you publish your next book! *sigh* I guess that Dallas is too far of a drive for you to make for a book tour.
On July 30, 2010 at 12:04 pm followingtheroad said...
Well- I would fly to you but that seems a little ridiculous, even for me. *Sigh*
I guess I’m going to miss out on the book tour. California is just a wee bit out of your driving range, no? Oh well. Someday I will get to shake your hand, smile nervously and slink away in embarrassment before I can speak. I’m really good at meeting people.
On July 30, 2010 at 1:59 pm Jenny said...
Me, too. We can slink together.
On July 30, 2010 at 10:32 pm Merry said...
Don’t you have to wear something slinky when you do that?
On July 30, 2010 at 1:26 pm Tawna Fenske said...
I think you have a few typos in your list. When you say “OH,” you meant to say “OR” for Oregon, right? And instead of “Dayton” or “Cincinnati” or “Columbus” you meant “Portland” or “Salem” or “Bend,” right? RIGHT?!
Aw, c’mon. I’ll even drive over and get you.
Tawna
On July 30, 2010 at 2:00 pm Jenny said...
You know, I like Oregon.
It’s the drive I can’t stand.
On July 30, 2010 at 3:14 pm Micky said...
New England is really nice in the fall…really…foliage and all that
On July 30, 2010 at 3:21 pm June said...
I guess a 13 hour roundtrip drive to Pittsburgh would officially make me a crazy person. I’ve only been to Pittsburgh once and I thought it was lovely. Maybe if I call it a vacation and stay for the weekend. Hmmm….
On July 30, 2010 at 3:35 pm Bethany (Betty Clawed) said...
Maybe the Cherries could split hotel rooms in some of the cities? To make it a girl’s weekend and not quite so “i’m insane and drive many hours to see an author”
On July 30, 2010 at 10:17 pm Jenny said...
I think The Betty may be joining me in some of the close by cities, so you might want to coordinate with her, too.
On July 30, 2010 at 3:36 pm Bethany (Cherry Clawed) said...
And apologies for the Betty. I didn’t even notice I typed that instead of Cherry. Argh.
On July 30, 2010 at 5:12 pm Betty Fokker said...
It’s so hard to tell Cherries & Betties apart now
On July 30, 2010 at 8:51 pm inkgrrl said...
Some of us are all three!
On July 30, 2010 at 3:48 pm AgTigress said...
I think Lexington, Kentucky, is where the International Museum of the Horse is. Or near there, anyway. I retired just a little too early to get to go there at my employers’ expense as a courier for an exhibition to which we were lending stuff. Bad luck for me. Then in 2003 I toyed with the idea of going there en route from NYC to Phoenix, but it all just seemed too complicated and so I didn’t: I don’t mind flying — it’s the thought of road travel that gives me nightmares.
Jenny, these book tours must be really exhausting, so please rest enough and eat properly (good grief, I seem to be in ‘mother’ mode, and I’m not even a mother). I hope it all goes well. You’ll sell MASSES of books for sure.
On July 30, 2010 at 4:02 pm Susan said...
I would also love for you to visit Iowa, as I won’t be able to go anywhere once the kids start school. And this year I officially become a ‘soccer mom’ too!
So I will have to live vicariously through all your fans who are able to go to your signings and leave happy and ecstatic postings on your site about how much fun it was!
On July 30, 2010 at 4:02 pm Cathy said...
I am new to your books. Started in February and have read just about all of them. Glad you are coming to Columbus. I missed the last tour in Columbus. See you in September.
On July 30, 2010 at 8:23 pm Muria said...
There are several places in Ann Arbor that have hosted authors before, including the Ann Arbor District Library, Borders, and Nicola’s Books. I’m considering badgering all three to see if they can get another author, but I didn’t even realize you’d be doing a book tour (duh). Is it too late to do the badgering? Dayton’s a bit far to drive once school’s in. It’s tempting… I was thinking of you when we were driving to Sandusky last weekend (I KNOW she lives in Ohio SOMEWHERE!!! What if we’re driving by her house RIGHT NOW???).
On July 30, 2010 at 8:45 pm Muria said...
(Except, of course, that the only river we drove by was the Sandusky River, not the Ohio River).
On July 30, 2010 at 8:48 pm Sierra said...
Dang it all to heck, I’m in Texas. I have friends in Illinois, so Chicago would work for me…if it weren’t at the beginning-ish of the semester.
I’ll just have to email my Crusie-fan best friend in Illinois and tell her to go, and then to send me a signed copy if she can.
On July 30, 2010 at 10:24 pm Naked Under My Clothes said...
How about a virtual signing? Didn’t Margaret Atwood invent a remote thingummy where you can sign books that are located elsewhere? Between that and Skype, surely to God there is a way to spread snarky goodness all throughout the continent at independent bookstores and create Cherry buzz. All a virtual thing (technical term) would require is the Cherry sitting at her computer/webcam at a specified time, and a big screen in the bookstore. I bet you could even forego the remote signing thingummy and just snark on screen for an hour or two, answer questions, wave cheerfully, eat M&Ms. Like that.
Come on, all this technology has to be good for something.
On July 30, 2010 at 10:27 pm Ginny said...
A lonely voice in the wilderness calls out “Florida?” Yeah, yeah I know but it is NORTH Florida which is much, much closer than say Miami or SOUTH Florida.
Maybe if I win Lotto this weekend, I’ll buy you a pimped out tour bus and beg you to be chauffered as far south as Atlanta.
My beloved DH wanted to know what I would like for my Big Fifty birthday…a plane ticket to Ohio! He was born in Athens so I could play the “I want to see where you grew up” card.
On July 31, 2010 at 10:25 am Mary Stella said...
Hey, watch the lobbying against South Florida. I’m trying to work it here with the Betty-to-Cherry-to-Betty shuttling across country. Living in the Keys I’m probably the southernmost blog poster.
Jenny, do you and Lani like dolphins? Want to see them? Swim with them in a safe setting? I can arrange that.
Look at me. I’ve fallen to bribery.
On July 31, 2010 at 12:21 pm Jenny said...
Who doesn’t love dolphins? You know they’re just gay sharks, right?
I’d love to come down to the Keys. But that’ll have to wait until we strike it rich and can buy and RV. Then I’m on your doorstep. I’ve always thought you had the coolest job ever.
On August 1, 2010 at 1:19 am Ginny said...
Sorry, I’m not lobbying against South Florida. I’m just trying to get her CLOSE to Florida and then we can kidnap her. If you can get Jenny to show up in an RV, I’m on my way in an old Volvo station wagon with no kids, cats or dog! And gay sharks sound so much better than talking everyday to people who really shouldn’t have stopped taking their meds. sigh.
On July 31, 2010 at 1:32 am AB said...
There are some lovely luxury cruise liners that travel out to Australia… (though they tend to dock in Sydney… But then it’s only about ten hours to drive to Melbourne, a UNESCO City of Literature, and a great way to see the country!) I know, I know, but a girl can dream!
On July 31, 2010 at 3:01 am Jenny said...
I loved Australia when I was there. Gorgeous country and the nicest people in the world. That was pretty much my last hurrah for flying long distances, though. And it was on a short hop that my brain tried to explode, so just look at that lovely highway! But yes, a cruise ship to Sydney would be fabulous. And probably a year’s mortgage payments, so nope.
On July 31, 2010 at 4:10 am Micki said...
See, this is what I was thinking: A Cruise with Crusie! Have a writing class and book tour all rolled up into one, and sail the Pacific Rim. And you could stop by Kushiro, the Armpit of Japan (but only two hours from my home), as well as hitting the really cool port cities like Yokohama (or Shanghai . . . San Francisco . . . everyplace SJ Perelman made a stop . . . ).
(-: With an on-board Michaels, and a cupcake caterer at your beck and call.
On July 31, 2010 at 6:38 am Jenny said...
Again, the only problem is that it would cost more money than God has and we’re all broke over here. Although Krissie would be so all over that. She loved Australia when we were there and she’s a Japan-fanatic. I love the idea. It’s just not financially feasible.
On August 1, 2010 at 1:53 am Bethany said...
Even with you guys being the “featured guests” like where you cruise with the rock stars? Darn.
On July 31, 2010 at 10:27 am Laura said...
Ummm, I don’t see Montego Bay in that line-up. I found my first Crusie (I think it was “Charlie All Night”) at a used bookstore here over 10 years ago & when I got back to Canada, bought everything that was available at the time. You can reach us by water, too. Doesn’t have to be by plane. C’mon, isn’t it time for an island holiday?
On July 31, 2010 at 2:00 pm Becke Davis (Becke Martin) said...
I’ll see you in Cincinnati at JosephBeth!
On July 31, 2010 at 3:16 pm Stephanie said...
what about the train? i love the train. very cool unless you absolutely have to get somewhere at an actual time. even the 3 days across the country from DC to LA is great and there’s so much to see!!
On August 1, 2010 at 1:11 am Skye said...
We are all so pathetic, trying to cajole and bribe this poor woman to come to our respective cities. Tsk. I mean really.
(I live on the Oregon Coast. You’d like the coast. You could bring the dogs: my mom loves dachsunds!)
On August 1, 2010 at 11:08 am McB said...
If you come to Canada next week we can arrange transport from Ohio. The CBs are gathering again, you might as well join the party.
On August 1, 2010 at 10:18 pm Bitchin' Betty said...
I am so jealous of those who get to attend. I live in Texas and have all my life so unless the trip is 6 hours are more it is not even considered a long trip. Those who are questioning whether it is unreasonable to go when the trip is less than 6 hrs should go! I sure as hell would. Hell, we make day trips to the Blue Bell Creamery for ice cream and that is a 4 hour trip just to get there. I would go further to meet Jenny and Lucy, maybe not to El Paso which is 12 hours but anywhere closer than that I would do. Just wish I had the chance.
On August 2, 2010 at 12:48 am Deb Z. said...
I was out of town all weekend and am so excited that you will be coming to Mequon! Lucky us! Lucky me!
On August 2, 2010 at 3:56 pm Terrio said...
This is way late, but I’m going to be in Pittsburgh two weeks after your tour stop (my family is there) and I’m now rethinking my plans. Hmmmm…..must look into this.
On August 2, 2010 at 5:26 pm Rosa said...
I know the tours kill you, and Minneapolis is really far away (tho we’re really only another easy day past Milwaukee…) but I wish the Chicago or Milwaukee dates were a weekend. I’d totally travel but the babydaddy is anti taking vacation days so I can go to book reading events.