My good friend Bill called it perfectly! “Panhandling”. On a recent visit with him in Portsmouth, NH I hit a couple bookstores with a box of books in my trunk and by the time I got home 24 hours later “Spy Island” was on the shelves in a handful of them. Portsmouth, Barrington, Wakefield, Newport, Pawtucket, Westerly and Mystic. The new buzz word is “authorpreneur”. Writing the book may be the easy part! You gotta sell it, of course, and there is no magic bullet. My publisher has made the book available to the 36,000 booksellers across America, but there are no guarantees anyone will actually stock it. Greg who? So, old school says I meet them one by one. Connecticut’s double dozen or so are next. Meanwhile, if you’re traveling, stop in River Run Bookstore or Book and Bar in Portsmouth. Wakefield Books, Barrington Books, Island Books in Middletown and Stillwater Books in Pawcatuck. And don’t forget our friends at Bank Square, Mystic and Savoy Books & Cafe, Westerly. Can anyone say “Road Trip!”?