From John Grisham’s blog:
Celebrate John Grisham’s 30th novel–CAMINO ISLAND–and his first bookstore tour in 25 years! Seating is extremely limited–see full tour schedule and event guidelines below.
EVENT GUIDELINES (Please check each individual store listing)
• Events are ticketed – 1 ticket per person, which will include a copy of CAMINO ISLAND.
• Ticket costs vary. Check store listings.
• Events will be strictly limited to 200 people only.
• Mr. Grisham will personalize and sign up to 2 copies of CAMINO ISLAND (1 copy included with event ticket, 1 copy purchased on-site only).
• NO BACKLIST WILL BE SIGNED.
• Photos will be permitted.
• The event will be structured into two parts: book signing and discussion/Q&A.
• Your ticket will gain admittance to both the book signing line AND in-store discussion UNLESS space is limited – check in-store seating guidelines below.
• The book signing portion of the event will be from either 1 to 5pm or 2 to 6pm only – check timing of each venue. You must have your ticket on-hand to join the line, which will be first-come, first-serve.
• All books MUST be signed during the signing window – there will NOT be an autographing after the event.
• Mr. Grisham’s in-store discussion will begin at either 5 or 6pm – check timing of each venue. You must keep your ticket on-hand to join the discussion portion of the event.
• Seating at the discussion will be first-come, first-serve. There will not be assigned seating.
Link to the rest at John Grisham’s blog
I wonder if he’ll be making any excuses for his child porn viewer friend on the tour.
He’ll never get any of my money.
It looks like a publisher ploy to prop up brick&mortar bookstores. They coerced a bored, jaded Grisham into luring suckers away from Amazon.com because they need to protect their hardcover hegemony.
Unless he’s suffered some major financial reversals recently, Grisham is almost certainly a multi-millionaire. His publisher can’t coerce him to do anything and they’d be in danger of losing one of their star writers if they did.
Perhaps. But on the other hand, it’s not like he can pick up his existing books and go home.
Am I the only one who thought he was dead?
When I saw the headline I was thinking wow, what kind of book tour can you hold for a dead guy!
Assuming this is the full schedule, it’s a bit underwhelming. A few states in the East. Smaller towns except for DC. Nothing West of the Mississippi and not much West of the Appalachians. All the sessions are during the week in the afternoon, nothing in the evening, nothing on weekends.
June 6 – Paramus, NJ – Barnes & Noble Paramus
June 7 – Madison, CT – R. J. Julia Booksellers
June 8 – Manchester Center, VT – Northshire Bookstore
June 13 – Raleigh, NC – Quail Ridge Books
June 14 – Charlotte, NC – Park Road Books
June 15 – Asheville, NC – Malaprop’s Bookstore
June 20 – Oxford, MS – Square Books
June 21 – Jackson, MS – Lemuria Books
June 22 – Nashville, TN – Parnassus Books
June 27 – Greensboro, NC – Scuppernog Books
June 28 – Washington, DC – Politics & Prose
June 29 – Doylestown, PA – Doylestown Bookshop
He will conduct a seminar on targeted advertising and the Separation of Suckers from their Money…
On the other hand, if you choose to buy into this, you’re gonna spend hardback prices for the book but you get to meet the author, hear a talk, and get a signed copy. Some people like that sort of thing.
This might just be me being incredibly dense, but if the book has just been published, what exactly does he discuss in the sessions in the bookstores?
‘Spoilers’ 😉
Ticket prices are between $28 and $35 depending on the venue. It does come with a copy of the book, so I guess it’s not that expensive.
If I was anywhere near these places, I’d stand outside to see how many people show up.
Indeed, I would love to see an eye-witness account of just what all this hoopla results in.