Hi everyone. Hope you had (or are still having) a nice holiday.

Just making a brief visit to point you in the direction of the new Authors on Tour - Live! series, courtesy of the Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver (a wonderful and increasingly rare independent bookstore). The title is pretty self-explanatory, but the Tattered Cover is basically making some of its more high profile in-store author visits available via podcast feed.

“I can’t possibly imagine how libraries could use this same marketing approach to get greater value out of their programming,” he said facetiously.

I have an admitted uneasiness with describing the series as “live podcasts”: the events are live, but the mp3 distribution method is not. Seems like a contradiction in terms, but I suppose that’s me being unnecessarily literal.

Anyway, the Tattered Cover is unquestionably THE place for authors to stop when they’re passing through the Rocky Mountains, so this feed is going to have some great content. Upcoming authors include Neil Gaiman, Al Franken, Carl Hiassen, Dr. Andrew Weil and Susanna Clarke, amongst many others.