Good news Junkies, the PANDEMIC tour is booked!
We’ve got the tour dates for the PANDEMIC University Tour to promote Scott’s next novel, the conclusion to the INFECTED trilogy.
Now, I know many of you will be sad to see that your town isn’t listed, and while I can appreciate that, I can’t do anything about it. There are three factors that determine the tour route, all reasonably equally important.
- Scott’s paying for this whole tour out of his own pocket, so that Crown can focus the marketing monies elsewhere to make PANDEMIC sing. So, the tour route had to be cost effective.
- Second factor is time. The impact of first week of sales is most essential, so a week long tour is potentially beneficial. More than a week? When we consider the increased costs and the extra time away from writing against the diminishing return on that investment, it doesn’t make sense.
- And last, there’s interest. We were open to pretty much anywhere in North America (see #1) and considered all bookstores that responded to Crown’s query. There were some that asked for a stop but we couldn’t make the logistics work (see #2). But overall, there are fewer bookstores around, and therefore fewer available option, and lots of stores were already booked. We’ve done a non-bookstore based tour before with the ROOKIE Tailgate Tour, but that wasn’t an option this time.
So, if Scott’s not coming to your town, maybe you can make it out to see him if he’s close. If not, we’ll be doing a virtual tour stop the week before the book comes out with BookTalk Nation.
| Thursday, Jan. 16 | 7:00pm Eastern | virtual | BookTalk Nation | Chez YOU! |
| Saturday. Jan. 18 | 3:00pm Pacific | San Francisco | Borderlands Books | The Phoenix |
| Tuesday, Jan. 21 | 6:00pm Central | Chicago | B&N DePaul University | Manhattan’s Bar |
| Wednesday, Jan. 22 | 7:00pm Eastern | Cambridge | Harvard Coop Bookstore | John Harvard’s Brew House |
| Thursday, Jan. 23 | 6:00pm Eastern | Philadelphia | B&N University of Pennsylvania | New Deck Tavern |
| Friday, Jan. 24 | 7:00pm Eastern | Baltimore | B&N Johns Hopkins | PJ’s Pub |
| Saturday, Jan. 25 | 2:00pm Central | Nashville | B&N Vanderbilt | JED’s Sports Bar & Grill |
| Sunday, Jan. 26 | 2:30pm Pacific | Los Angeles | Mysterious Galaxy | Islands |
| Monday, Jan. 27 | 7:00pm Pacific | San Diego | Mysterious Galaxy | Player’s Sports Bar |
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Saw the Sig in person… Awesome! He is a giant amongst men! 😎
Any chance on hitting the Kansas City area? Been waiting a loooooong time for ya to come my way!
So excited! Finally going to a Sigler event! Thinking about hitting Philly and B-more.
Woo last year Pittsburgh this year Philly
I’m trying to locate the Chicago B&N, google shows several around the university, do you have the address or street for the one you are going to?
It’s this one:
BARNES AND NOBLE COLLEGE
DE PAUL UNIV. LOOP CAMPUS BOOKSTORE
1 E JACKSON BLVD
CHICAGO, IL 60604-2201
I’ll update the list above with addresses later today.
WØØT! Can’t wait to see you guys! We’re gonna party like it’s SF2K13! 😉
I’ll be at the Philly one! Too bad there isn’t numbered book editions like during the Rookie signing. Rookie Book #1776, Scott – if you remember way back when…
Gonna be at the Philly spot. First time. Wonder if I’m any taller than the SIG. 😎
@Jervis: Pretty sure everyone is taller than the Sig.
Holy cow I am so there in Nashville! 15 minutes from my house! And 2 days after my birthday! Finally going to meet the FDO! My wife is already planning the day. Giddy. Yes giddy.
@Steve: Bring friends! Looking forward to a Nashville stop, and hoping y’all represent.
Going to try and make the Cambridge, MA stop.
@Brad: There is no “try.” There is only “do.”
I’ll be making it to Philly. Had a lot of fun in Bethlehem last year.
Going to try to make it out to borderlands, hope my loved ones didn’t already make plans for me that day.
Yay! Going to try getting to the Chicago meet up again.