I'll be on the road for much of September, promoting COLORADO SCENIC BYWAYS: TAKING THE OTHER ROAD with photographer Jim Steinberg.

Here's our September signing and speaking schedule:

Sept. 3: Grand Junction, Barnes & Noble, 5-8 p.m.
Sept. 4: Glenwood Springs, Book Train, 4-7 p.m.
Sept. 5: Steamboat Springs, Off the Beaten Path (this one's a hometown book-release party with food and music!), 5-8 p.m.
Sept. 6: Denver Art Museum, noon-3 p.m.
Sept. 9: Denver, Tattered Cover Bookstore, LoDo (Jim will show slides from the book, and I'll tell the stories behind the words), 5-8 p.m.
Sept. 18: Colorado Springs, Barnes & Noble (725 Citadel Drive East), 5-8 p.m.
Sept. 19: Colorado Springs, Mountains & Plains Booksellers Association, Crowne Plaza
Sept. 21: Salida, The Book Haven (this one's a hometown book release party too!), 3-5 p.m.

Come join us if we're near you!

"You don't choose the words, says David Lee, runner-up for the post of Poet Laureate of the United States, the words choose you. And they choose pretty carefully."

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