Red Helmet Travels - 2008-01-08 14:49:59 Red Helmet travels as of today Lots of Homer Hickam fans have asked about the book tour for my big new romantic novel Red Helmet. Here's what I can tell you today.
Although I love meeting my fans, I'm not having a traditional book tour for Red Helmet except for a swing through West Virginia (Charleston, Huntington, Bluefield, and Tamarack) and some favorite bookstores (Booksmith in Birmingham, Davis-Kidd in Nashville, and the B&N about three miles from my house). We haven't set those dates yet but keep an eye on http://www.homerhickam.com and they should be listed in the next couple of weeks.
So why no book tour per se? Well, book tours are starting to go out of favor with publishers and, anyway, I just did the Far Reaches book tour in July and felt it was a little close to the last one.
So what I've decided to do is to go out and promote a National Miners Day while asking for donations to a scholarship I'm endowing for miners' children at Marshall University. I'll be hitting television and radio promoting those things while doing a little Red Helmet publicity, too. Also, if you know who Jim Brickman is (www.jimbrickman.com), I'm appearing with him in Salt Lake City on Feb. 14 and in Dallas on Mar. 7. Jim's a friend of mine and I decided to write him into the novel just for the fun of it
I'll also be at the Festival of the Book in Charlottesville, VA on Mar. 27.
Red Helmet comes out on Feb. 5 and I'm hoping everybody will be so sick of politics by then they'll be ready to get into a good read about a rich New York woman who marries a West Virginia coal miner, comes to the old state, hates it, but ends up working in the mine.
Check out the cover of Red Helmet and the first few chapters on www.homerhickam.com. I hope you enjoy my romantic thriller set in today's Appalachian coalfields.
I hope to see a lot of you out there on my travels in behalf of the National Miners Day, the miner's scholarship, and Red Helmet! And, as always, to the ladies, I apologize for not being Jake Gyllenhaal (but I did let him pretend to be me in the movies).
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