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Carolyn Parkhurst is back from a whirlwind tour to promote her new novel, The Nobodies Album, which Liesl Schillinger reviewed glowingly in the NYT this past Sunday. Carolyn has condensed her on-the-road experiences into this list of hilarious book tour wisdom. Highly recommend.
A sampling:
Stay in character. When you call home, have your kids ask you a few questions about narrative voice.
In-flight writing exercise: Choose an item from the SkyMall catalog and try to imagine a character who might actually use it.
While you're on the road, you're functioning as an Ambassador of Literature. This means you can pretty much park anywhere.
(On my way to the DMV now to get one of those Ambassador of Literature hang-tags for my car...)
