Lavinia Spalding's Blog
September 28, 2009
Reading/Signing
For those of you who live in the Bay Area, I'll be doing a reading/signing at the Green Arcade, one of my favorite San Francisco indie bookshops, on October 12th, at 7 pm. The Green Arcade is at Market and Gough. http://www.the greenarcade.com
May 26, 2009
WRITING AWAY BOOK TOUR (AS OF 5/25)
Please visit me at one of these locations in June. I’m available to visit your school or bookshop to speak about keeping a travel journal and to sign copies of my book, Writing Away: A Creative Guide to Awakening the Journal-Writing Traveler.
Stay posted, as I will add more dates later.
TOUR DATES
June 8th Springdale, Utah
7-9 p.m.
Sundancer Books
Tel: 435-772-3400
June 9, Page, Arizona
7:00 p.m. The Carl Hayden Visitor Center at Glen Canyon Dam, Hwy 89, Page, AZ,
as part of the Glen Canyon Lecture Series
June 11, Flagstaff, Arizona
Author Reception, Reading, and Signing
6:30 p.m. The Wine Loft
June 13, Scottsdale, Arizona
Author Reception and Signing
7:00 p.m. Terroir Wine Pub at 7001 North Scottsdale Road, #157
Tel: 480-922-3470
June 14, Tempe, Arizona
2:00 p.m. Changing Hands Bookstore
6428 S McClintock Dr. (McClintock at Guadalupe) Tempe, AZ 85283
Tel: 480-730-0205
June 19, Tucson, Arizona
7:30 p.m. Antigone Books at 411 North 4th Avenue 85705.
Tel: 520-792-3715
Date TBD Boulder, Utah
The Anasazi State Park Museum
Date TBD Escalante, Utah
Escalante Outfitters
June 23, Salt Lake City, Utah
7:00 p.m. King’s English Bookstore at 1511 S 1500 E.
Tel: 801.484.9100
June 29, Book Launch Party, San Francisco, CA
Venue TBD
July 13th San Francisco, CA
7:30 p.m. San Francisco
Travel Book Club and Lecture Series
at Books Inc. Marina, at 2251 Chestnut St .
Tel: 415-931-3633
Stay posted, as I will add more dates later.
TOUR DATES
June 8th Springdale, Utah
7-9 p.m.
Sundancer Books
Tel: 435-772-3400
June 9, Page, Arizona
7:00 p.m. The Carl Hayden Visitor Center at Glen Canyon Dam, Hwy 89, Page, AZ,
as part of the Glen Canyon Lecture Series
June 11, Flagstaff, Arizona
Author Reception, Reading, and Signing
6:30 p.m. The Wine Loft
June 13, Scottsdale, Arizona
Author Reception and Signing
7:00 p.m. Terroir Wine Pub at 7001 North Scottsdale Road, #157
Tel: 480-922-3470
June 14, Tempe, Arizona
2:00 p.m. Changing Hands Bookstore
6428 S McClintock Dr. (McClintock at Guadalupe) Tempe, AZ 85283
Tel: 480-730-0205
June 19, Tucson, Arizona
7:30 p.m. Antigone Books at 411 North 4th Avenue 85705.
Tel: 520-792-3715
Date TBD Boulder, Utah
The Anasazi State Park Museum
Date TBD Escalante, Utah
Escalante Outfitters
June 23, Salt Lake City, Utah
7:00 p.m. King’s English Bookstore at 1511 S 1500 E.
Tel: 801.484.9100
June 29, Book Launch Party, San Francisco, CA
Venue TBD
July 13th San Francisco, CA
7:30 p.m. San Francisco
Travel Book Club and Lecture Series
at Books Inc. Marina, at 2251 Chestnut St .
Tel: 415-931-3633
April 14, 2009
upcoming book tour
I'll be doing a book tour for WRITING AWAY from Salt Lake City, UT, south to Tucson, Arizona throughout the month of June 2009 (dates and locations TBA). If you're interested in inviting me to appear at your local bookstore or school to read, sign, and talk about the art of keeping a travel journal, please let me know!
March 30, 2009
Advance Praise for Writing Away
"Spalding doesn't just give you ideas for keeping a travel journal— she makes a convincing case for why keeping a travel journal is important, and how this personal writing ritual can deepen your journey in unexpected ways. I recommend this book for anyone who loves travel and endeavors to do it mindfully."
— Rolf Potts, author of Vagabonding and Marco Polo Didn't Go There
"Writing is a sacred and an irreverent art. As such, Spalding reminds us to journey conscientiously, to arrive awakened and to write with all our hearts. This is a beautifully vital antidote to the frenetic buzz of blogging and texting, to be savored and shared."
— Alexandra Fuller, author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight and the Legend of Colton H. Bryant
"We travel to find out who we might be: to leave home is as much a journey in time as in space. Yet all we experience vanishes far too easily, a victim of flawed memory. In WRITING AWAY, Lavinia Spalding has given travelers a witty, profound, and accessible exploration of the diverse hows and whys of keeping a journal. Novices and veterans alike will find inspiration and fresh ideas on every page, along with countless practical suggestions to bring out the best writer in anyone. Spalding seems to have read everybody who set pen to paper while on the move, and her narrative is laced with their wisdom and her own hardheaded yet searching advice. Best of all, she knows that the “memoir” has grown ever more diverse wings. At once a worthy addition to the literature of travel and the psychology of writing, it is also a handy, encouraging toolbox. Buy two copies—one to meditate on in your favorite armchair, and another to dogear, underline, and carry alongside your own journal en route."
— Anthony Weller, author of The Siege of Salt Cove and Days and Nights on the Grand Trunk Road: Calcutta to Khyber
Writing Away: A Creative Guide to Awakening the Journal-Writing Traveler
— Rolf Potts, author of Vagabonding and Marco Polo Didn't Go There
"Writing is a sacred and an irreverent art. As such, Spalding reminds us to journey conscientiously, to arrive awakened and to write with all our hearts. This is a beautifully vital antidote to the frenetic buzz of blogging and texting, to be savored and shared."
— Alexandra Fuller, author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight and the Legend of Colton H. Bryant
"We travel to find out who we might be: to leave home is as much a journey in time as in space. Yet all we experience vanishes far too easily, a victim of flawed memory. In WRITING AWAY, Lavinia Spalding has given travelers a witty, profound, and accessible exploration of the diverse hows and whys of keeping a journal. Novices and veterans alike will find inspiration and fresh ideas on every page, along with countless practical suggestions to bring out the best writer in anyone. Spalding seems to have read everybody who set pen to paper while on the move, and her narrative is laced with their wisdom and her own hardheaded yet searching advice. Best of all, she knows that the “memoir” has grown ever more diverse wings. At once a worthy addition to the literature of travel and the psychology of writing, it is also a handy, encouraging toolbox. Buy two copies—one to meditate on in your favorite armchair, and another to dogear, underline, and carry alongside your own journal en route."
— Anthony Weller, author of The Siege of Salt Cove and Days and Nights on the Grand Trunk Road: Calcutta to Khyber
Writing Away: A Creative Guide to Awakening the Journal-Writing Traveler
