#TBT to my very first, previously unreleased, journal entry from The Great American Whistle Stop Book Tour!4/1/22- Reno Nevada Two nights ago, at Readers’ Books in Sonoma, California — my “home” bookstore, with its quiet corners for leisurely browsing and...
UPDATE from the rails on The Great American Whistle Stop Book Tour:4/3/2022 – Observation Car in route to Grand Junction We pulled into Salt Lake City for a brief stop about 6AM this morning. I extricated myself as quietly as I could from the top bunk in our...
UPDATE from the rails on my Great American Whistle Stop Book Tour 4/6/2022 – Crossing the Rockies It is three in the afternoon, and the observation car is packed—with good reason. The scenery through these windows is nothing short of spectacular. The Colorado...
Sharing a previously unreleased journal entry below from my Great American Whistle Stop Book Tour. Enjoy! 4/10/2022 – Denver, Union Station It was just over five years ago, in March of 2017, that I conceived of a book tour via rail. Given the setting of the novel,...
Whistle Stop Book Tour Journal Entry 4/16/2022 – Kansas City, Central Library Early this afternoon I’ll be heading down to The Afterword Tavern & Shelves on Grand, for a casual discussion of books and travel with Alex Greenwood. I met Alex “virtually” when he...
Update from The Great American Whistle Stop Book Tour 4/17/2022 – On The Missouri River Runner to St. Louis Independence Whistle Stop – 8:40 AM For the next six hours or so, I’ll be making my way to St. Louis via The Missouri River Runner. This seems like a good...