Launch Month!
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It is time. For over a year, I have been eagerly awaiting the launch of my book, Bit Flip, and now it is finally available on August 16. This milestone has felt like a mirage for some time—something so distant that it seemed like it may never happen. Now, with the book on the cusp of being reality, I’m anticipating the inevitability of it like I’m at the peak of a roller coaster. All the hard work of making that climb is about to pay off! Suddenly, there’s a lot going on, so I thought I’d summarize all the activity here.
SPEAKING Events
Writing, editing, and publishing a novel is a mostly solitary endeavor. But I’m a social person. So, particularly after two years of the pandemic, I am very much looking forward to real, live, in-person events, starting this month and continuing through the fall, to discuss the book with other human beings. I’m thrilled to have so much support, particularly from Bay Area bookstores that I have enjoyed for years as a reader.
My calendar currently has me speaking at 10 book events around the country between now and October, from book signings to panel discussions. To keep track of it all, I have created a new Events page on my website, where you can see all my upcoming speaking appearances in one place.
The Bit Flip World Tour starts with an in-store event at my local Books Inc in Palo Alto on Thursday, August 18 at 6:00pm. I will then speak at Book Passage’s store in the iconic Ferry Building (a location that makes a cameo in the book) on Sunday, August 21 at 2:00pm. I will be joined in conversation at both events by my colleague, Mehran Sahami, co-author of the excellent book System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot. From there, I will visit Columbus, Sonoma, Marin, Seattle, New York, and cap it all off with a talk at the Fox Cities Book Festival in my hometown of Appleton, Wisconsin. Can’t wait!
Virtual Book Tour
For those of you who can’t join a live event, I am doing a series of short videos in which I visit many of the real-world locations in the San Francisco Bay Area that make appearances in the novel. The first three episodes are available now both on a new Videos page on my website and on my YouTube channel.
I will be releasing new episodes, typically only 1-2 minutes long, every Tuesday through the fall. Whether you’re a local or have never been to the Bay Area, these videos are a fun way of bringing the story to life by visiting many of the hotels, restaurants, and scenic locations used as settings for scenes in the book. I encourage you to subscribe to my YouTube channel for the latest and share these videos on your social media with the hashtag #BitFlip.
Media Coverage
I’ve been busy providing interviews with over twenty media outlets the last several months. Much of that coverage has been scheduled for August to coincide with the release of the book. I will be posting coverage to my website on another new page titled Media, and sharing it on my social channels as it appears.
Some of the coverage has already started, including my interview with Foreword Reviews following on their 5-star review of Bit Flip in March, my interview with Authority Magazine on the “5 Things You Need to Be a Successful Author,” and my radio interview on KZSU’s “Interesting Beings” show.
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