I often get asked when I’ll come here, or there.

Trust me, I want to hit a lot of places.  I like meeting my readers, and I love to travel to places I haven’t been.

But it’s not always easy.  Booksignings are pretty much on my own dollar-until an author hits big, they aren’t financed by publishers.  It’s up to me and you can imagine going anywhere more than a few hours away can get pricy and if it’s too far to drive in a few hours, then you’re not just looking at gas, you’re looking at at hotel fare.

Anyplace that’s not driveable?  You looking at airfare as well.

Besides the costs, I’ve also got one other big consideration, and it’s actually bigger than the cost…my family.  My kids are still pretty young.  My youngest will be four this summer, the oldest is eleven.  As much as I want to meet more of my readers, I’m sure you all can understand, my kids need me around more right now and a lot of travel cuts in that.  This why I limit mysellf to a couple of out of town weekend events a year and only 1-2 things that will have me gone 3-5 days.  Anything more than that, either they come with me  (then costs comes into play) or I just can’t go.

As they get older, and eventually move away, I will travel more-me and my husband actually kinda look forward to it, even as we dread those days.  But right now, unless it’s something fairly close or I can manage a way to work it into a family vacation, I have to keep the areas I hit for signings pretty limited.

I hope people understand…