Something else kind of cool that I did while I was on vacation was pimp the hell out of my new book by means of this little makeshift book tour that I came up with.
The idea was simple – I wanted to do something to promote my recently completed creative efforts, but at the same time not take away time from my actual vacation with my wife, so instead of getting in touch with book stores along our route and trying to setup “appearances,” I thought it might be fun to just bring the book itself along for the ride and in the process share photos with my readers of all the places that we went. I tend to take tons of pictures when we’re out and about anyways, so it was nothing to snap a couple that included the book as well, and then every couple of evenings I would jump online and schedule a few of them to post to the blog at comedic-genius.com in the mornings.
my book comes across a formidible opponent at Harry Potter: The Exhibition at the Ontario Science Centre in Toronto
You can find a summary post that contains a slideshow of all 27 photos along the way here, or even check out each of the individual posts from throughout the trip in the archives here. In addition to the photo blog, I also ran a little promotion where I picked up a small souvenir (usually a post card) and wrote a fun fact about me and my writing on it to include as a free gift for anyone who ordered a copy of the book during the tour. I didn’t get a ton of orders, but there were still a few and it was a lot of fun hunting down neat things to include with each of the orders!