Authors are adventurers—and I don’t mean in the whole I-can-go-anywhere in a book sense, although our beloved Reading Rainbow is right about that, too. Authors are wheels-on-the-pavement, walking-trails-unknown adventurers. Once or twice a year we come out of our caves, shower, trade workout clothes and sweatpants for normal clothes like dresses or jeans, and jet around the country — or world for some of us — on book tour.

Even the words “book tour” sound sophisticated and organized, the same vibe as a riverboat cruise or a meticulously arranged European sojourn. In actuality, book tour is more like taking an unreliable RV down country roads without cell service or maps — you might think you know where you’re going and when you’re supposed to be there, but how you’ll actually make it

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