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Lord Vishnu's Love Handles Reading At The Garden Cafe

Here's the first BookTourVirgin Podcast of my reading at The Garden Cafe in Dallas, Texas—complete with "Ums," Uhs," and stutters.

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Maybe The Moblogging Worked, Or Perhaps I Just Like Bandying That Word Around... "MOBLOGGING"

My ranking on Amazon yesterday was hovering around #470,000 as it has all week. Which has really bummed me out sort of.

But when I woke up this morning, my ranking was at #77,815.

This is good. It means someone bought a book. Maybe it's in direct correlation to my Moblogging? I will have to watch my ranking on days that I Moblog.

Anyone have any thoughts on this? Does boring people with the petty details of my life drive them to buy my book?

Click on comments below and let me know how you got to this site, and what you think. 

MOBLOGGING, Or As I Like to Call It, "Boring You Into Submission"

Below, you will see moblogging posts of my day from 1:30 PM until about 7:37 PM.  If this doesn't bore the shit out of you, and make you want to read something else (my new book perhaps?), nothing else will.

If I am not boring you sufficiently, you can always play the cow. It's not only boring, but addictive.

This is all the Moblogging I will be doing before I tour. But I think it will come in handy while on the road and today was a good test run.

I Google Myself Way Too Much

Actually, I Google the title of my book way too much. But as a result I have found that Lord Vishnu's Love Handles is popular with:

1) The British
2) Aspiring Rockstars
3) Single Pisces
5) The Digerati
6) Employees Who's Bosses Give Them Christian Motivational Books
7) Will Christopher Baer Fans
8) My Agent
9) Poddy Mouthed Girls
10) Hollywood Reporters
11) Voracious Readers
12) Vaguely Annoyed Bloggers
13) The Mint Laboratory
14) Guys Who Dress Up Like Rubik's Cubes
15) Journalism Haters

Lots of Being Naked Dreams

I'm having lots of being-naked-in-public-places dreams these days.

Here's why:

THE 2005 LOVE HANDLES TOUR

7/6, Dallas: Barnes & Noble (Northwest Highway) 7:30 PM.

7/11, Austin: Book People 7:00 PM.

7/18, Houston, TX, Borders (Kirby Rd.) 7:30 PM.

7/19, New Orleans: Garden District Bookshop 5:30-7:30 PM.

7/21, Baton Rouge: Barnes & Noble (Citiplace Court) 7:00 PM.

7/24, Shreveport: Books-A-Million (Bossier Corners) 3:00 PM.

7/26, Jackson: Lemuria Books  5:00 PM.

7/27, Oxford: Square Books 5:00 PM.

7/29, San Antonio: Borders (E. Basse Road) 7:30 PM.

This is the book tour that Simon & Schuster has been so kind to send me on for my book,  Lord Vishnu's Love Handles.

It's also why I started this blog. I probably shoudn't, but I am going to clumsily document what it's like to be the guy behind the card table with a stack of books that he desperately needs to sell.  You know the guy in the bookstore that everyone is ignoring while they slurp on their Frappucinos and browse through the DVD section.

Who even goes to booksignings these days? I do sometimes, but I can count those "sometimes" on one hand. And I am a huge reader.  I mean, I have a costly book habit equivalent to some friends' drug habits.  So if I have only gone a handful of times, what does that say about the less-addicted reading population?

Actually, typing this is making me so nervous that I just threw up in my mouth a little. Be back later.