Normally, I wouldn’t consider working the weekend as a guest speaker and panelist at a major science fiction convention to be the RELAXING part of the tour, but it was great just to stay in one place for a couple of days, unpack my suitcase, sleep in the same bed. On Saturday I had a worldbuilding panel with Ken Scholes, Brenda Carr, and Stephen Gillette, an autographing, a panel on Sail to Success, Superstars, and other high-end writers workshops with Arc Manor publisher Shahid Mahmud, Nancy Kress, and Jack Skellingstad, a panel on marketing for people who don’t like marketing....
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Moving from city to city, day to day. The schedule is so tight I didn't have time to do a blog the last couple of nights, though I did download and post some photos on Facebook  (If you want to check out the regular updates, please join my Facebook page.) Thursday night I was in Houston, flew in from Dallas and spent part of the afternoon editing THE DARK BETWEEN THE STARS (I came on tour armed with notes and comments from my batch of test readers, though it's difficult to get deep concentration time while on the road).  Brian...
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March 27, the second day of my HELLHOLE AWAKENING book tour, was my birthday, and I celebrated it in Dallas with a terrific signing at a Barnes & Noble. I flew in from San Diego, then arranged to meet some friends as well as a large group of 501st Legion members for dinner at the Cheesecake Factory adjacent to the bookstore.  Total of 27 people at the dinner—which included cards and a North Texas Squad t-shirt and patch, and a cheesecake with candles, before the group rushed over to the back room of the store to suit up for the...
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So I flew out of Denver this morning and arrived in San Diego (after a three hour delay at two airports), nearly finished inputting all the changes to The Dark Between the Stars manuscript from all the test readers. After a brief quiet time in the hotel, I drove off to Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore, grabbed a quick dinner at the nearby sushi restaurant, then signed a lot of stock at the store before I started my talk.  More than 40 people at Mysterious Galaxy, one of my best turnouts, and I drew tickets for the door prizes (in this case,...
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