Rose, cover girl
August 24, 2009 – “Soul Of A Dog” have moved to the No. 1 spot in Amazon’s “Hot Bestsellers” in several categories, passing Cesar and the New Skete Monks and a slew of weird cat books. That’s neat.
This week, the tour has a bunch of interviews and two public appearances.
The first, Tuesday the 25th, will be at 7:30 p.m., Hubbard Hall in Cambridge, N.Y., (25 East Main Street, Cambridge, New York, 12816), organized by Battenkill Books, (518 677-2208). Hubbard Hall is a wonderful reading space, a refurbished old opera house. It was Margaret Waterson of Battenkill who told me my dogs stories were more interesting than the books I was writing, and altered my life.
The second, Wednesday, August 26th, 7 p.m., will be held at the Crandall Public Library, Glens Falls, N.Y., organized by Red Fox Books, and my friends Susan and Naftali (518 793-5352). Glens Falls has become my adopted city, in many ways. I am there a lot. I will be teaching a story-telling workshop in the Spring and Summer next year at LARAC (Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Center), which is a block from the library.
I usually do readings at Red Fox, but we needed more room, and the Crandall is a gorgeous new library facility, right in the middle of this interesting town.
On Saturday August 29th, I will be at the Bookloft in Great Barrington, MA, at 1 p.m. (413 528 1521) for a talk and signing.
Then, “Art and Soul” happens at Gardenworks, Salem, N.Y., (518 854 -3250) 2 p.m., Saturday, September 5. I will be talking and reading, Mary Kellogg will be reading poems from her new book, Corinna Aldrich will be showing photographs, Ray Smith and Christopher Smith will be showing their art and Maria Heinrich will be showing her quilts. I will also be displaying a few photos.
Gardenworks also offers coffee and cider, baked goods, gourmet cheeses, organic farm produce, raspberry and blueberry picking and lots of neat and wholesome and classy stuff.
After that, I hit the road. The talks at the readings have been fascinating, and I am excited about the book. The right topic and the right time.