Third and final leg
This week marks the final dates of my book tour spent on the road, and I couldn't be more excited to meet my readers in Denver and Austin:
DENVER, CO
Monday, April 6
7:30 PM MST
TATTERED COVER
9315 Dorchester Street
Highlands Ranch, CO 80129
AUSTIN, TX
Wednesday, April 8
7:00 PM CST
BOOKPEOPLE
603 North Lamar
Austin, TX 78703
For those in my home town of Salt Lake City, here's a reminder of the reading/signing I'm doing a week from Wednesday:
SALT LAKE CITY, UT
Wednesday, April 15
7:00 PM
KING'S ENGLISH BOOKSTORE
1511 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT 84105
So far the most difficult thing about being on the road at seven months pregnant is the shoe removal rule at the security checkpoints in every airport. My belly is now so awkward and unwieldy that it prevents me from bending over and tying my own shoes. Yes, I know, slip-on shoes would eliminate the problem. But every pair of slip-on shoes I own no longer fits my swollen feet, and if I go out and buy new shoes now I risk getting blisters from breaking them in. So there I am, purse on one shoulder, hulking computer bag on the other, visibly psyching myself up for the exhausting task of bringing my legs up as far as they will go, and blindly fumbling with the laces on my tennis shoes. In San Francisco I asked a strange woman gathering up her carry-on bags if she could do me a favor and tell me if my shoes were tied. She did a double take and tried to reconcile why I was asking her such a ridiculous question, so I clarified, "HI. I'M SEVEN MONTHS PREGNANT. I CANNOT SEE MY OWN FEET."
Again, this book tour has been nothing short of spectacular, and everyone I have met along the way has reaffirmed the joy I get from doing this, this Online Internet Website Blog Thing, even the woman in Seattle who gifted me a coin purse in the shape of a hairy vagina. Especially the woman in Seattle who gifted me a coin purse in the shape of a hairy vagina. I found out on Wednesday that the book made the NY Times Best Seller List for 04/12/2009 (OH MY GOD !!!! YES THAT WAS FOUR EXCLAMATION POINTS HERE LET ME DO THAT AGAIN !!!!), and to celebrate I walked into my hotel room in San Francisco, fell over sideways on the bed and took a two-hour nap. When I woke up I called my parents to tell them the news, and my stepmother who grew up on a farm in Mississippi asked in her very Southern accent, "That's a good thing, right?" I said yes, a really good thing, a dream come true, right up there with getting to touch Crystal Gayle's hair.
In other news, I'm going to be on the Oprah Winfrey show tomorrow (Monday April 6) in an episode dedicated to "the secret lives of moms." We taped this show a couple of weeks ago, and I am one of the several women who joins via Skype, so I did not get to meet Ms. Winfrey in person. Meaning I have no idea if she smells just as good as she looks, although my money is on ABSOLUTELY. When I mentioned this Oprah appearance a few weeks ago, the one question I got most in my inbox was JUST HOW GOOD DOES THAT WOMAN SMELL?? Just like that in all caps with two question marks. And of course it's not a question at all, it's a statement of indisputable truth that requires no response whatsoever. Much in the same vein as JUST HOW DELICIOUS IS THIS DORITO??
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Kath said:
Best seller list? Nice one! It's well deserved.
It's not at all creepy that I posted this seconds after you did is it? No, right?
Ahem...
04.05.09 - 12:29 PM / 1Anonymous said:
Everyone should have a hairy vagina coin purse.
04.05.09 - 12:40 PM / 2Jennine said:
I think Jon owes you a foot rub. Especially since he didn't think to give you the coin purse first.
04.05.09 - 12:42 PM / 3leah said:
right along with a hairy vagina purse... Last night I was out for drinks with friends and we had to inform one of the girls that she was sitting under a vagina mirror... yes, a vagina mirror. A guy in our group took a picture of his crotch in the mirror... hilarious...
04.05.09 - 12:43 PM / 4Tiffany said:
SO excited to see you in Denver tomorrow! Loving the book! Congrats on the NYT bestsellers list!
04.05.09 - 12:45 PM / 5momatic said:
Is it sad that I'm considering driving 60 miles for your book signing?
04.05.09 - 12:45 PM / 6momatic said:
Is it sad that I'm considering driving 60 miles for your book signing?
04.05.09 - 12:46 PM / 7Valerie Wininger said:
That is amazing news!! Congratulations. I'm so thrilled to see you all successful and shit ;) I just finished the book in tears. Never before have I read a book that had me laughing til I couldn't breathe one minute and crying the next. You are ridiculous, and I mean that in a good way.
04.05.09 - 12:46 PM / 8Louise said:
Lol. I needed a good laugh today.... and a coin purse in the shape of a hairy vagina now. lol
04.05.09 - 12:46 PM / 9Jenn said:
Yay...Hairy Vagina Change purse!
Here is a picture of the beauty of the vagina purse:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jennfoik/3403197433/
You rocked in Seattle Heather, it was so worth it to drive from Chilliwack (1 hour east of Vancouver) to meet you!
You are my hero!
04.05.09 - 12:48 PM / 10Naomi said:
I know you don't want to hear this... Crocs. Or you could single-handedly revive the '80s Topsiders/Weejuns preppy deal. Oh, yes.
I can't believe your tour didn't come through Wichita. Ha.
04.05.09 - 12:57 PM / 11darcie said:
Got sidetracked by this book at B&N the other day...two hours had passed while I sat on a tiny footstool and I had laughed and cried, like a freak, in public, over a "stranger" I know from "the internet." You deserve every bit of goodness and the Being of #1 that this book and your gracious, hilarious sharing gets you. Congratulations, Stranger! :)
04.05.09 - 12:59 PM / 12Bruce Barber said:
I'm so happy to hear that everything is going so well - you deserve it.
It's nice to believe in a world where good things happen to good people.
(And by "good people", I'm obviously referring to all of you smart, funny, hairy-vagina-purse toting mommy bloggers out there...)
04.05.09 - 01:00 PM / 13Daddy Scratches said:
I'm marveling at the fact that you're doing that seven months pregnant. I couldn't handle a travel schedule that was that frantic under the best of circumstances, so I'm guessing that I'd really suck at doing it with another human being living in my abdomen.
Good luck with the the last few signings ... and consider a Boston signing when you publish the sequel! :)
04.05.09 - 01:03 PM / 14OHN said:
Am I the only one here that is pissed at Heather for not adding THEIR city to the list.
C'mon girl...the baby won't be here for another two months, surely you can squeeze in a few more cities!
I would even PAY for the book.
04.05.09 - 01:14 PM / 15Girlbert said:
I drove about 100 miles to LA from Santa Barbara on Thursday, and I am so thrilled to have finally met you! I was a huge dork and too nervous to tell you that you've inspired me to start my own blog and that you're much prettier in person. Thanks so much for inspiring me to write about my life after divorce, although it really seems like a cake-walk, now that I'm reading your book. And double thanks for setting a kick-ass example for women (and my brother!) everywhere. Congrats on your success, the new baby, and your happiness!
04.05.09 - 01:14 PM / 16Anneliese said:
Hey, Congratulations on the NYT best seller list!! I just wanted to let you know that if by some weird reason you wanted to do a book signing in CT, I work at Borders and we would love to have you come by. Oh, and I agree with the person above, Jon definitely owes you a foot rub.
04.05.09 - 01:15 PM / 17Lori Paximadis said:
Big, big congratulations on the NYT bestseller list. I finished your book last night, and the honor is well deserved.
04.05.09 - 01:16 PM / 18Rabeeah said:
Congrats on the book making it on NY Times Bestseller list. That's major!!!
It was wonderful seeing you in LA. I left work that day at 3pm and waited outside Book Soup until 7pm. It was so worth it!
Congrats on all the wonderful things coming your way! I'm so excited for you.
God Bless!
04.05.09 - 01:19 PM / 19bonzai said:
First, CONGRATULATIONS (yes, all CAPS). I missed you in Oak Brook (the day sucked, my kids sucked, and missing your book tour was the empty box of HoHo's to cap the day).
Second, are you hiding this trip from your ob/gyn? Mine threatened to hang me by my toenails if I even THOUGHT about getting on a plane after the second trimester. He knew I traveled for work, and he was absolutely berserk on the point.
Last Birkenstocks - the CUTE non-fat strap ones - maybe Disney Princess Pink? I 'let mine out' from the normal buckle position and wore them almost every day for the last two months. Of course, they were useless afterwards, since my bulk flattened the cork foot beds, but at least my circulation reached my toes!
04.05.09 - 01:19 PM / 20Another Heather said:
Congratulations on the Times bestseller! I was in Borders the other day with my mom-in-law and she picked up a book off the table we were browsing and read the title. It took me a second to realize why it sounded so familiar... then I realized it was your book! I am really hoping I'll be able to catch your reading when you're here in Austin. Good luck with the rest of the tour!
04.05.09 - 01:22 PM / 21Michelle said:
Heather, I just had to tell you that I loved the book so much that I read it on the day it arrived. All of it. And I have two small and needy children. So that should tell you how much I enjoyed it. It was far, far, far better than any Dorito, ever.
04.05.09 - 01:22 PM / 22Jessica said:
Was heartbroken that I couldn't make it to Seattle for the signing, but am still considering mailing my book to you to be signed and Leta can write in it. :-)
Good luck with the rest of the tour!
04.05.09 - 01:22 PM / 23BettyCrockerAss said:
Congratulations. What a great accomplishment! It was great hearing you read in Portland and fun to see just how many people filled that room so fast. I had friends that didn't make it in. I feel lucky!
Good luck with the feet.
It sucks, but really, it's the last time they'll be like this!
04.05.09 - 01:25 PM / 24Lanna Lee Maheux-Quinn said:
Crocs/clogs are great in an airport. You just slip them on and-
Whoa. Almost forgot whose blog I'm reading. Heh.
I am loving your book. If I weren't going to school right now, I would have already finished it.
Congrats on the Best Seller list. You deserve it!
04.05.09 - 01:27 PM / 25misha said:
wow. nice job getting on the nyt list. may it hit #1
04.05.09 - 01:30 PM / 26Golden Bryant said:
I absolutely loved your book! I read it in 2 days.
I wish you'd come east though for a reading. I'm in MA!
04.05.09 - 01:37 PM / 27Niki said:
I have been following your website everyday since I read about you in the washington post (maybe 7years ago). I read your book in one day and you always have made me laugh. I wish you the best of luck you and your family are one of those great stories that keeps getting better and better.
04.05.09 - 01:38 PM / 28beth said:
Wow! I am so happy for you! Life could not be any better unless someone gave you a purse in the shape of Coco's vagina!
04.05.09 - 01:39 PM / 29C. Andres said:
Congrats on the bestseller list and all your success. AND, welcome back to Austin. As you've probably already discovered, it's the bee's knees of Texas.
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