My publisher is supportive of my trying some different ways to open up
The book tour and break away a bit from TV studios, NPR booths, and mainstream media. So, in several cities I’m foregoing tv cameras for libraries, living rooms, smaller bookstores and other places where I can have a dialogue with readers and the people who buy books. This seems shocking, even unnerving to people who see publishing as strange and remote. Don’t know if this will work or not, but I have good feeling about it.
I am using new tools like Facebook and online reader forums and the Ipad but they need, I think, to work with existing ideas and institutions like bookstores and face to face encounters, not to supplant them. I like the of a mix. I’ll keep you posted.
Contrary to what you might sometimes hear, I can already report that reading and stories are alive and well.