Holy Shneikey!  15 cities in 19 days.  Putting Your Passion Into Print, the road show, has just been to Phoenix, Tempe, Denver, Dallas, Austin, Kennesaw, Atlanta, Charlotte, Philly, New York City, Dayton, Minneapolis, Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Louis.  Often times we’d have a 6am flight out of one city, go to 15 bookstores shmooze and sign books, then do an event in another, then fly out at 10pm and land in yet another city.  It’s not that it’s like coal mining, which killed my granddad, but it is so exhausting being charming over and over again. But above all, it’s the sleep deprivation that gets to you.  You can’t even remember who you are, never mind where you are.  But man, it was a blast.  My favorite was doing our show at the original Barnes & Noble on 5th Ave and 18th St. in New York New York, so nice they named it twice, the city that never sleeps, where, if you make it, you can make it anywhere.  It was standing room only, packed to the gills and the tits, our editor the fab Suzie was there, as was our uber-publicist Nicki, and we rocked the joint.  Best news of all was that ours was the best selling book in the ENTIRE STORE for the last month.  Worst event: a store where they advertised the wrong day for our show, and 1 (ONE!) person showed up.  He did get a hellofa show though.  Great news is that we are doing a  Pitchathon at the Strand Bookstore in NYC on Oct 26, with an All-star cast of characters, the head of Warner Books, Editor-in-Chief of some other joint, it’s gonna be soooo cool.  We’re gonna use it as our pilot for a reality show The Great American Pitch Off, where anyone in America gets the chance to pitch their book to a team of book people.  It’s like American Idol without the Simon.  My favorite tunes on the road were: "Louise" by Bonnie Raitt, "Ellis Unit One" by Steve Earle, and "Smells Like Funk" by the Black Eyed Peas.  Because I try, as they espouse, to keep it stinky.