Hillel Halkin has An Essay in the Jerusalem Post on his last book tour.
It’s called a “book tour,” it turns out, because of all the airplane flights and hotel rooms that have to be booked for it.
Before I returned to Israel we held a post-mortem at the publisher’s.
“You know,” I said, “this was pointless. We wasted my time and your money. What did we do this for?”
My publicist looked at my editor. My editor looked at my publicist. I had the impression that no author had ever asked them such a question before.
“We didn’t want to disappoint you,” my editor said.
Boo hoo.
Neil Gaiman, currently on a world book tour, has thousands of fans turn up at each stop, and signs books until past midnight.