Book Escorts take writers to book stores. They feed us. Drive us, help sign books, set up lines, talk to bookstores, maneuver through traffic, provide aspirin and bandaids, make conversation, boost morale. And above all, get the writer to the bookstore on time. She convinced me and Random House to abandon the idea of our being in San Francisco. There are more than a million people in S. F. This weekend – baseball, football. America’s Cup, Blue Angels, five music festivals.
A good call. Martha took us to some beautiful spots so we could look out the car window in compensation.
Martha is tough and smart and fun and I will do what she says.