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Though you could never tell by looking at my book tour schedule for Marco Polo Didn't Go There, I had a curious stop-off -- London, England -- slotted between book events in Kansas City and Chicago. I went there to record voice-over narration for "American Pilgrim," my ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
Rolf Potts's Book Tour
A slight book-tour deviation: Away to London for Travel Channel voice-over
Though you could never tell by looking at my book tour schedule for Marco Polo Didn't Go There, I had a curious stop-off -- London, England -- slotted between book events in Kansas City and Chicago. I went there to record voice-over narration for "American Pilgrim," my ...TV, staycations, and "selling out": A short list of Rolf's missed mass-media opportunities
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Hours after completing the Kansas leg of my book tour I flew across the Atlantic for a whirlwind two-day visit to London, England. This had nothing to do with Marco Polo Didn't Go There; I was there to dub voice-over for a Travel Channel special I'm hosting this fall. I'll ...Three ways to capture sense of place in a travel story
In my last post I mentioned how I spoke with Thomas Fox Averill's writing students at Washburn University -- and specifically about how you can use travel experiences to improve your "sense of place" descriptions, in fiction as well as nonfiction. Of course, mere travel ...Tour stops #4, #5, #6, and #7: From the college towns: "Come and couch-surf Kansas!"
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After a somewhat lonely showing in the Salina Central Mall, I took my book tour east on I-70 for a series of events on college campuses in Manhattan, Topeka, Lawrence, and suburban Kansas City. It was here, amid college students who were keen on the message of Vagabonding ...You, Rolf Potts, are a Contemptible Jackass, Part I: Stoner movie redemption
Around the time Marco Polo Didn't Go There was set to debut in bookstores, I began to wonder what kind of negative comments it might attract. I wondered this not because Marco Polo is a bad book (to the contrary, I'm as proud of it as anything I've written), but because some ...Tour stop #3: The loneliness of a shopping mall book signing
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Waldenbooks, Salina Central Mall Having completed my first and only shopping-mall-based Marco Polo Didn't Go There book-signing, I now know what it feels like to be a public social oddity -- to have people furrow their brows at you in bafflement at the sight of you, or avoid ...Trashed any hotel rooms lately? Blender interviews Rolf Potts (kind of)
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My virtual book tour for Marco Polo Didn't Go There ended just last week, and -- while it was a lot of work -- it ended up being quite the success. Over course of ten days, I visited online venues like Tim Ferriss's 4-Hour Work Week and National Geographic Traveler's ...Marco Polo Didn't Go There book tour: Salina and Wichita
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After just two days on the road promoting Marco Polo Didn't Go There: Stories and Revelations From One Decade as a Postmodern Travel Writer, I have learned one important lesson: Sex sells. Or, at least, sex gets people's attention in an otherwise staid bookstore ...Marco Polo Didn't Go There ... but Rolf Potts did
Rolf Potts, author of the great philosophical/travel/how-to book Vagabonding, has just wrapped his "virtual book tour," in support of his new book, Marco Polo Didn't Go There. On his tour, he chatted with various people about life as a travel writer, the themes he explores ...Talking Travel with Rolf Potts, author of the new book "Marco Polo Didn't Go There"
Rolf Potts has inspired more people to travel than any writer working today. His first book Vagabonding motivated my first long-term trip, and I've run into countless travelers who have said the same thing.
Rolf's newest book is a collection of stories called Marco Polo ...
