I’ve just wrapped up the last of my official duties as Author Sara Zarr for leg one of the Once Was Lost tour. Namely, the Reading the West Breakfast at the Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association conference. Reading the West is a program of MPIBA—booksellers pick books of note from authors in the region or subjects about the region. Four RtW authors spoke this morning: Jacqueline Kelly (The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate), Rick Collington (Madewell Brown), me, and Judy Shepard, author of The Meaning of Matthew: My Son’s Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed. As you can imagine, Judy’s talk was emotional for her and for us. I know that her book will be a difficult but good read.

with my friend Steve at the Tattered Cover

I’m trying to keep a video diary of the tour, if I can overcome dead batteries, slow internets, and late-night tiredness. Already I’m an episode behind, thanks to all of the above, but for your viewing pleasure I give you: Denver. (Of all the thumbnails YouTube gave me to choose from this was, believe it or not, not the worst.)