Dinner with Dad -- the tour

Just came back from a reading at Borders near my home. Believe me, I am very grateful to have published a book, to have a major publishing house behind me, and to have a great editor and two great publicists. But this publishing biz is a b---h! There have to a thousand books every month competing for attention, reviews, features, space in bookstores. A hundred publicists calling newspapers and magazines seeking a few inches for their book. Hundreds of writers on tour trying to get a couple dozen people to come to their reading and maybe buy a book. When you think of the way the movie industry opens its movies, and then compare it with the way the book business tries to sell a fraction of a similar product, it is seriously depressing!

And it's not as if I wouldn't have done Dinner with Dad without writing the book. But now that the book is out, of course I want people to read it. I think the book is honest and heartfelt, and I really do think that if you read it you may change your life. Or at least you may think about changing your life. Or at least you may wonder about how to begin about thinking about changing your life.

Anyway. I hope you'll buy the book. I hope you'll read it. I hope you'll get a friend to read it. If I am reading near you, I hope you'll come to the reading. I hope you'll write a nice review of the book on Amazon. If you tell two friends, and they tell two friends, and they tell two friends etc. -- who knows, maybe we'll start a revolution. We'll call it: Dinner.

Peace.