What Color is Your Jockstrap?

Joel Carrilet Wins a Copy of Jockstrap on Vagablogging

We ran a book givaway on Rolf Pott's Vagblogging and Joel Carrilet was the winner. Congrats Joel and thanks so much for being a Travelers' Tales fan.

Joel is in talks with agents to get his first travel book published, Sixty-One Weeks: A Journey across Asia. He has some sample chapters online.

• Dancing at Sunrise 
• Mt Everest: The View through a Cracked Window Pane
• Entering Cambodia with a Book

Good luck with your book, Joel, and make sure to let us know when it gets released!

CBC Radio in Canada

The CBC called yesterday. I'm going to be on their Freestyle show this morning around 930am PST.

CBC Freestyle (Listen Live)

I had a great chat with the producer yesterday and this is expected to be a fun show with hosts Cameron Phillips and Lisa Christiansen (standing in for Kelly Ryan) .

Thinking about media events in Canada brought back great memories of the time Erik Trinidad helped me with promotions in Montreal during the Just for Laughs festival in Montreal.That was the summer after Sand in My Bra came out. I was on  CBC radio then, too. But the two things that stick out the most, was shopping for Erik's pink bra, our stealth promotions, and our legit promotions where I read with Christine Michaud (now Martinez) at Chapters.

We've had several Canadian contributors included in the series, but surprisingly none this time around for Jockstrap. Hungary, yes. Australia, yes. Traveler in Romania, check. Writer setting up an orphanage in Nepal, check. But no Candians this time. I'll make sure to tell them about the other books.

The books are available in Canada now. PGW has plenty in their warehouse, and I checked with the Travel Bug in Vancouver and they have some in stock, too. But since we couldn't get the book to the hosts fast enough, we sent then some sample stories. They will be reading Jim Benning, Elliott Hester, Rachel Thurston, and Tamara Sheward.

New Author Events

Tell all your friends to stop by one of these events to hear some outrageous travel misadventures. I'm always happy to answer quesetions about travel writing and let you know which books Travelers' Tales has open for submissions. Come on by, I'd love to meet you!

Mon. 6/19/06 7:30pm
Distant Lands, Pasadena, CA
with Jim Benning, Sean Presant, and Don Priess

Wed. 6/21/06 7pm
Burbank Central Library, Burbank, CA

Wed. 8/16/06  7pm
Book Passage, Corte Madera, CA *Special*
"In conversation with Tim Cahill"

Wed 9/06/06  7pm
Powell's Portland, OR
with Julia Weiler

Tues 9/12/06  7pm
Wide World Books and Maps, Seattle, WA

Wed 9/13/06  7pm
Third Place Books, Lake Forest Park, WA

 

Introduction

by Jennifer L. Leo

Men. We love them for making us smile, and hate them for breaking our hearts. They’re good for carrying our bags, and I swear, one day, we’ll invent a way to convert their natural gas into useable power for our hybrid cars, laptops, foot spas, and anything else we’d rather be using than an air freshener. I know some of you would prefer to live without them, but I never could.

I entered the travel writing world because of Tim Cahill and have since made room on a bookcase for signed Bill Bryson books, driven from San Francisco to Santa Barbara for a Pico Iyer reading, and gotten drunk with Rolf Potts on three different continents. In short, I love our traveling smellier half. That’s why, after Bra, after Panties, after Thong, those with the bulge in their pants asked when they would be able to write for one of my books, I couldn’t say no. In fact, everyone at Travelers’ Tales thought it a fabulous fun way to complete this scantily clad underwear empire.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Love and the Bad Empanada
Elliott Hester
Argentina

Lust in Translation
Jim Benning
China

The Butt Reading
Essa Elan
Florida

Be Grateful, Not Hateful
Julia Weiler
Mexico

Day Trip to Chechnya
Tamara Sheward
Chechnya

First Copies

I just got my first copies back from the printer. Wow, I can hardly believe it, two books in one year! What a birthday present!

We've still got a few more weeks before it hits bookstore shelves, which is a good thing. Now, all PR has risen to the urgent level. We've placed ads in the Radio TV Interview Reporter and the requests are starting to come in. I've got a couple of midwest interviews for the middle of June, but I'll post about those later.

For now, we've got to get get the good word out to the contributors, finish the press kits, prep the media kits to send out, and organize a podcast tour! Yeah, baby!