Whose Panties Are These

Meet Me in LA Tonight!

Date: October 25th, 2004 |

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I love Distant Lands! Last year Sand in My Bra was their #1 best selling title. A true honor. Well, it’s time to encourage Whose Panties Are These? to do the same.
Come out with me tonight!
Where: Distant Lands, 56 S. Raymond Ave., Pasadena, CA 91105
When: 7:30pm
What to bring? Kleenex. Just in case you start [read more]

Panties Panties Panties!

Date: October 18th, 2004 |

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Oh man, these are great. Check out the latest entries that came in last week!
You won’t want to miss “Travelers’ Utili-Panties” and “Sharon Stone’s Panties in Basic Instinct” and the “Smart Ass Travelin Pants”.
Last year I tried on “The Winning Bra!”, so we’ll have to see if I can figure out a way to have [read more]

Rolf Potts: The Man, The Myth, the Hottie

Date: October 15th, 2004 |

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So, here I am cruising around the country doing author events for my latest book. The way these events go, you talk about the book, you read from the book, you talk about the process of making the book, you talk about the process of getting yourself to the point of being the name on [read more]

Author Signing at the GLBA 2004

Date: October 10th, 2004 |

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Ha ha! It looks like I am posting before Jay Gesin. We did not end up doing any head to head blogging in the lobby this morning. I slept in, and oh how I needed it. There is a small chance I might actually return to SF semi refreshed. Or maybe I should skip San [read more]

Meet Me in Chicago at the Savvy Traveller!

Date: October 7th, 2004 |

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TONIGHT is the big event at The Savvy Traveller. For those of you who will be coming by there are three things to note:
1) It starts at 6pm. (We had it previously listed as 7pm) The store is located on South Michigan Avenue between Jackson and Van Buren.
2) They want you to bring two pairs [read more]

My Latest Publicity Stunt

Date: October 18th, 2004 |

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I'm at Travelers’ Tales today going through our media database and sending off radio pitches. I must be hungry for brownies and ice cream or something because I just took my PR crazyness to a new level.
Women’s Entertainment
200 Jericho Quadrangle
Jericho, NY 11753
ATTN: Janitor(ess)
FOR DELIVERY TO THE LADIES RESTROOM NEAREST THE LUNCH ROOM
Who wants to [read more]

Litsqueeeak, I mean Litquake

Date: October 16th, 2004 |

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Another occassion of low expectations turning out pretty dern all right.
I had my 20th appearance for Whose Panties Are These? at the “The Wide World of Travel Writing” leg of the Litquake Pub Crawl.
The line up was cool. Larry Habegger, Executive Editor of Travelers’ Tales, Michael Shapiro author of A Sense of Place, Judy Zimola, [read more]

Dinner with Booksellers

Date: October 10th, 2004 |

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This year I was the guest author for our sales rep to show around at the Great Lakes Booksellers Association Fall Trade Show. John Mesjak, who covers the Midwest for our distributor Publishers Group West, really knows his stuff. Believe me, it is quite reassuring for a publisher to witness their sales rep greeting [read more]

Debate This! Jen at the Wisconsin Book Festival

Date: October 9th, 2004 |

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You gotta love it when low expectations get blown out of the water.
Last night was my final event for the Midwest portion of the book tour. And except for a stellar event at Harry Schwartz in Milwaukee (that I still need to write up), the people in the Land of Nice were a bit [read more]

Well, the Debate was More Important

Date: September 30th, 2004 |

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Tonight's event was in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Home of those pesky UM Wolverines. The staff at Nicola’s Little Professor were very excited to have us there. And I was happy to finally get to meet contributor Cynthia Barnes.
Except for four travel lovers, everyone else was home to watch Kerry/Bush Debate pregame. And right they should. [read more]