Perhaps some are curious about the nature of a book tour, the task of moving around a region, state, country or more, talking about your book, now a fast fading marketing strategy as publishers cut costs, with only the most famous authors doing such tours. We non-famous may imagine tours might be wonderfully interactive as an appreciative or curious audience absorbs your words and keenly asks questions. Or perhaps the tour is more often grueling and dull, or a mix of all these things. But who would imagine a highpoint of the tour can be the escort who sets the stage for an author and ferries him or her around. Joe Queenan shows us who the escorts are and how they work, and reminds us, if we needed reminding, there is more to book life than the book:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/books/review/Queenan-t.html?_r=1&scp=5&sq=joe queenan&st=cse
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/books/review/Queenan-t.html?_r=1&scp=5&sq=joe queenan&st=cse
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