Thanks for that – it’s pretty intense. Up most mornings at 3 or 4AM to get work (blogging!) done before leaving for a 6AM flight, eating an apple or whatever at the airport, working on the next novel on the flight, dropping stuff at hotel and maybe having 30m for a swim to help with my chronic pain, then press and store-signings until the event with a takeout lunch eaten in the media escort’s car and dinner eaten in the bookstore’s break room, then an event, back to the hotel for 9 or 10pm, and up at 3 or 4 the next day!
There are much harder jobs – cleaning toilets comes to mind – but tours are an intense endurance course as one tries to build and sustain publicity momentum during the crucial weeks immediately following publication.
