Tours

Book-signing tours by Terry Pratchett.

UK tour 2006

Posted to alt.fan.pratchett.announce by esmi.

Place	Date and Time	Location and description
London:	Thursday 28th September, 6pm	Terry in conversation with... (interviewer to be confirmed) At Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London Organised by Blackwell's Charing Cross Road. Those wishing to attend will need to apply for tickets, but as details have not yet been arranged, please do not contact the shop until after 4 September. Further details will be forthcoming.
Manchester:	Friday 29th September, 6.30pm time tbc	Terry in conversation with... (interviewer to be confirmed) The Dancehouse, 10 Oxford Road, Manchester Organised by Waterstone's Deansgate those wishing to attend will need to apply for tickets, but as details have not yet been arranged, please do not contact the shop until after 4 September. Further details will be forthcoming.
Glasgow:	Saturday 30th September, 12.30pm	Signing session at Borders, 98 Buchanan Street, Royal Exchange Square, Glasgow
Worcester:	Monday 2nd October, 5.30pm	Signing session at Ottakar's Bromsgrove (may of course be rebranded by then), 66-68 High Street, Bromsgrove, Worcester.
Exeter:	Wednesday 4th October, 5pm	Signing session at WHSmith, 34-35 Guildhall Shopping Centre, Exeter

Please note: The times listed above may change slightly.

US signing tour 2005

posted by Terry Pratchet on alt.fan.pratchett on 10th August 2005

Date	Time	Location
Tuesday Sept 13	7 PM EDT	Olsson's; 2111 Wilson Blvd. Arlington, VA 22201
Wednesday Sept 14	7:00 PM EDT	Borders's; 1 S. Broad St. Philadelphia, PA 19107
Thursday Sept 15	7:00 PM EDT	Barnes & Noble 1972 Broadway at 66th St. New York, NY 10023
Friday Sept 16	12:30 PM EDT	Yale Bookshop 77 Broadway New Haven, CT 06511
Fri Sept 16	7 PM EDT	Harvard Bookshop At Askwith Hall, Longfellow Hall 13 Appian Way, Harvard Square Cambridge MA 02138
Saturday Sept 17	7:30 PM MDT	Tattered Cover 1628 16th St. Denver, CO 80202
Sunday Sept 18	2:30 PM PDT	Capitola Book Cafe 1475 41st Avenue Santa Cruz CA 95010
Tuesday Sept 20	7:30 PM PDT	Kepler's 1010 El Camino Real Menlo Park, CA 94025
Wednesday Sept 21	7:00 PM PDT	Cody's 2454 Telegraph Ave. Berkeley CA 94704
Thursday Sept 22	7:00 PM PDT	The Booksmith 1644 Haight Street San Francisco CA 94117
Friday Sept 23	7:00 PM PDT	Vroman's 695 E. Colorado Boulevard Pasadena CA 91101
Saturday, Sept 24	2:30 PM PDT	Mysterious Galaxy 7051 Clairemont Mesa Boulevard San Diego CA 92111
Sunday Sept 25	3:00 PM PDT	Barnes & Noble 7700 NE 4th Plain Boulevard Vancouver, WA 98662
Monday Sept 26	7:00 PM PDT	University Bookstore 4326 University Way NE Seattle WA 98105
Tuesday Sept 27	6:00 PM PDT	Third Place Books 17171 Bothell Way NE Lake Forest Park, WA 98155

Terry Pratchett's comments on tours

posted by Terry Pratchet on alt.fan.pratchett on 18th August 2005

There have been a couple of requests about the signings in Canada this autumn, and I get the impression that people don't understand how tours work.

They get organised in outline months in advance, and in detail about a month ahead. They don't include much spare time. What looks like gaps in the schedule are often filled by travelling, stock signings and media. All the publishers and all the stores are engaged in a poker game over events -- you can't always line up events logically because key stores have another signing booked on a vital day, and so there is rather more zig-zagging than you might think. Bringing in a foreign author is expensive. That means events will be chosen to get most bang for the buck and minimise travel time. They are not a healthy way of spending time. They are not a healthy way of spending time. I though this was worth mentioning twice. I picked up a cocktail of infections on the 2003 tour which wiped out the UK tour. Rushing around, sleeping and eating erratically, travelling in the wonderfully sterile air of aircraft...it's just great.

There're limits to how long you can do them. There's maybe a one month window after publication, and*everyone* wants me to tour then. The other limit is: how long can you really go living out of a suitcase without a break? Three weeks (which is what the upcoming tour will be when trade/media stuff at either end in added in) is about the limit.

Why can you tour New Zealand and Australia together, but not Canada and the USA?

I'm glad I asked me that question:

There are minor physical things that make OZ/NZ easier (fewer cities, not so hard to plan a linear tour) but the big reason is that over there I have one publisher so it's easy to run it as one big tour. In North America I have two publishers. It could be done but it would be four times as hard (see above re the poker game) and probably not good for my brain.

Terry