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BITE ME TOUR 2010 – Scroll to the Bottom for Answers to Frequently Asked Questions

Tuesday, March 23 at 7:00 PM
BOOKS INC. AT OPERA PLAZA
601 Van Ness, San Francisco, CA 91402

Wednesday, March 24 at 7:00 PM
UNIVERSITY BOOKS
4326 University Way NE
Seattle WA 98105

Thursday, March 25 at 7:00PM
THIRD PLACE BOOKS
17171 Bothell Way NE,
Lake Forest Park, WA 98155

Friday, March 26 at 7:00 PM
POWELL’S BOOKSTORE AT BAGDAD THEATER
3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd,
Portland, OR, 97210
Tickets $24. Ticket includes a signed copy of Bite Me. Ticket buyers who purchase through Ticketmaster.com will have a surcharge of around $7 per ticket. As an alternative, walk-up customers can buy tickets at McMenamin’s Crystal Ballroom box office (1332 W. Burnside, downtown Portland) anytime leading up to the event and pay a $1 ticket surcharge. Customers can purchase at the door the night of the event (also a $1 ticket surcharge), but will risk not getting in should the event sell out. (Not likely).

Saturday, March 27 at 2:00 PM
POISONED PEN PHOENIX STORE
4014 N Goldwater Blvd
Scottsdale, AZ  85251

Saturday, March 27 at 7:00 PM
CHANGING HANDS
6428 S McClintock Dr., Tempe, AZ 85283

Sunday, March 28 at 2:00 PM
TATTERED COVER BOOKSTORE
1628 16th Street
Denver, CO 80202

Tuesday, March 30 at 12:30 PM
BORDERS
150 N State Street,t
Chicago, IL 60601

Tuesday, March 30 at 7:00 PM
ANDERSON’S NAPERVILLE
123 W. Jefferson Avenue,
Naperville, IL 60540

Wednesday, March 31 at 7:00 PM
BOSWELL BOOK COMPANY
2559 N. Downer Avenue,
Milwaukee, WI 53211

Thursday, April 1 at 7:30 PM
THURBER HOUSE
The Columbus Performing Arts Center
549 Franklin Ave,
Columbus, OH.

Friday, April 2 at 7:00 PM
BROOKLINE BOOKSMITH
279 Harvard Street,
Brookline, MA 02446

Saturday, April 3 at 6:00 PM
BORDERS
10 Columbus Circle,
New York, NY 10019

Monday, April 5 at 6:30 PM
CHESTER COUNTY BOOKS
975 Paoli Pike,
West Chester, PA 19380

Tuesday, April 6 at 7:30 PM
BORDERS
5871 Crossroads Center Way,
Baileys Crossroads, VA 22041

Wednesday, April 7 at 7:00 PM
POLITICS & PROSE
5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008

Friday, April 9 at 7:00 PM
VROMAN’S
695 East Colorado Boulevard,
Pasadena, CA 91101

Saturday, April 10 at 2:00 PM
MYSTERIOUS GALAXY BOOKS
7051 Clairemont Mesa Boulevard Suite 302,
San Diego, CA 92111

Sunday, April 11- Huntington Beach
Barnes & Noble at 3 PM
7881 Edinger Avenue Huntington Beach, CA 92647
714-897-8781

Corte Madera – Wednesday, April 14
Book Passage at 7:00 PM
51 Tamal Vista Blvd.
Corte Madera, CA 94925
415.927.0960

Petaluma – Thursday, April 15
Copperfield’s at 7:00 PM
140 Kentucky St. Petaluma 95404
(707) 762-0563.

Menlo Park- Friday, April 16
Kepler’s at 7:30 PM
1010 El Camino Real Menlo Park, CA 94025
650-856-0978

Sunday, April 18 / 10:00 AM – Montreal
Paragraphe Books & Brunch
Le Centre Sheraton, 1201 Boulevard Rene-Levesque West
For tickets, call (514) 845-5811

Monday, April 19 / 7:30 PM – Ottawa
Perfect Books presents Christopher Moore
The Mayfair Theatre, 1074 Bank Street
For tickets, call (613) 231-6468

Tuesday, April 20 / 7:00 PM – Toronto
Chapters Queensway presents Christopher Moore
Chapters, 1950 The Queensway
For more information, call (416) 622-2838

Wednesday, April 21 / 7:00 PM – Waterloo
Words Worth Books presents Christopher Moore
Location: First United Church, 16 William Street West
For tickets call, (519) 884-2665

FAQ:

1) Hey, why aren’t you coming to my town? You never come to my town?

1)We pick dates and cities for the tour based on a lot of factors, population, ease of travel, how much mail I get from that area, and if there is a bookstore there who knows how to host an event and has a venue in which to do it. I can really only effectively tour for a month a year, and some would argue that’s too long. We have to hit the most people with the greatest ease of travel. When I was touring in February, we had to cut the Midwest from the tour because of weather, this year, I’m not doing Texas or Florida because we added the Chicago dates. I don’t choose the cities, they are determined from a lot of factors. If you don’t have a at least a dozen best-selling authors coming to your town every year, then you probably don’t have an event-oriented book store.

2)Will you sign other books I bring to the event.

2)My policy is that I will sign any of my books that you bring, but usually I can only personalize one because of time constraints. Most of the stores that host events require that you buy the current book from them. If you’re a collector or reseller, and you have a backpack full of books, you have to wait until last to have your books signed. This tour will have a few ticketed events. Usually the price of the ticket includes a book, or the price of the ticket discounted against the book. I understand that at some of the events they’ll have me sign the books in advance, so if you don’t want to wait in line, you won’t have to, but if you want to wait to have your book personalized or just to say hi, I’ll be there. So far I think Powell’s in Portland may be the only one doing that.

3)What can I expect at the event? Do you read, talk, do puppet shows?

3)I don’t read, but I usually talk about the book and other stuff for about 20-30 minutes, then take your questions for another 20 minutes or so, then I sign books until we’re done. If it’s a big event, and you want your book personalized, it can take an hour or two. Some places allow you to stay in your seat, others, there’s an actual line. It just depends on the venue. If you’re not sure, give them a call beforehand.

You guys, here’s a few updates to the tour schedule. They’ve added another event in L.A on the 14th, as well as the Philly and D.C. dates at the end. Ann Arbor, Chicago, and perhaps other Midwest venues yet to come, and probably another Bay Area or two.

Feb.10: Books Inc, Opera Plaza, SF (Launch)
Feb. 11: Book Passage, Corte Madera
Feb. 12: Mysterious Galaxy, San Diego
Feb. 13: B & N, Santa Monica
Feb. 14: Borders, Northridge
Feb. 15: 3rd Place, Seattle
Feb. 16: University, Seattle
Feb. 17: Powell’s, Portland
Feb. 19: Tattered Cover, Denver
Feb. 20: Boulder Bookstore, Boulder
Feb. 22: Bookpeople, Austin
Feb. 23: Wordsmith, Atlanta
Feb. 25: B & N Lincoln Center, NYC
Feb. 26: Chester County Books, PA
Feb. 27: Politics & Prose, Washington DC

Hey Kids, these photos more or less illustrate the last blog, so, you know, memorize the blog, then look at the pics, or something. Finally got a connection fast enough for pictures.

On the road in Germany: My “escort” and press person, Katrin, enjoys a moment of rebellion as she smokes with both of her toes almost outside of the little smoking square.

Munich: Actor Christian Ulmann reads from my book in German. (He’s a TV star in Germany.)

Munich: Christian and I laughing like loons.

Cologne: Some of my incredibly good-looking readers.

Cologne: I think this pretty-much shows what my readers have in common all over the world: goofiness.

Cologne: Joln, my translator, joins me at the author table.

Rape seeds and windmills on the train from Cologne to Berlin This is the only picture in this section that I took. Charlee took all the rest.

The Berlin Trainstation: Like a Cathedral built to honor safty glass.

City of Bears: This Blue Bear taken from a moving cab.

Berlin even has killer robot bears!

Christian got sick, so Katrin filled in as translator.

Dietmar Marque (this has to be the wrong spelling — sorry Dietmar, I’m sure Katrin will write me to fix this and I will.) did the reading. Unprepared and cold, he did a terrific job. His day job is as an events director for a book store chain.

Michael, and enthusiastic reader, wants to be a translator when he gets out of school.

We lost her name, but another enthusiastic Berlinisch fan.
ON TO ITALY

View from my hotel in Milan. You thought I was kidding, didn’t you?

The Cathedral in Milan. The big arch on the left is the entrance to the shopping center. On the right, there’s a jumbotron as tall as the cathedral that plays underwear and shoe ads all day. Really.
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Hey kids, just a note to let you know that I’m off to book tour Germany and do some research in Italy. I won’t be able to check messages, e-mail, or comments very much until June. If I get a place with a good connection and I have some time I’ll try to post some pics or a quick blog.
If you’re a bookseller and going to BEA in Los Angeles at the end of May, I’ll be signing there. See ya.

Für Meine Deutschen Freunde:
These are the scheduled events for my German book tour in May. I don’t know what to expect any more than you do, but I’m told there will be an actor, who will read my work in German, then they’ll make me read in English, even though I don’t read, then there will be questions and answers.
I speak about nine words of German, meine kinder, (does that mean kids?), so if you don’t know English, you might want to bring a friend who does. I suspect there may be a translator there as well, but if you do know English, keep an eye on them and make sure they are saying what I’m saying, you know, to keep them honest.
Monday, May 5th: Munich 8:00 PM evening event at Muffatcafé, Zellstr. 4
Tuesday, May 6th: Cologne 8:15 PM evening event at Mayersche Buchhandlung (book store), Schildergasse 31-37
Wednesday, May 7th: Berlin 8:00 PM evening event at babylon berlin:mitte (Cinema) Rosa-Luxemburg-Str. 30