Book tours are wonderful. They are like six or seven days out of someone else's life.  I wake up knowing exactly what I'm going to do that day, down to the minute, and I arrive on time and organized, and I do it.  It's wonderful.  That is due to the efforts of people such as Alice Moss who kept me organized and Tony Connell, who has handled the driving on every UK book tour I've done, and the rest of the HC staff who set things up and make them go so smoothly.

Then there are the book stores and t