Photo Essay: Oleander Girl Book Tour

These are some photos of places where I read from Oleander Girl, my new novel, and Grandma and the Great Gourd, my children's book.

At Asia Society Texas, in Houston, the national launch, on-stage interview with St. John Flynn of KUHF.

At Google, with Regina Sawhney, who invited me to present at Authors at Google.

At Books Inc., a wonderful independent bookstore in Mountain View, CA.

More to come. . . .

Getting Ready for the Book Tour, Oleander Girl

My new novel, Oleander Girl, will be out in about three weeks--I almost can't believe it.

Just received this brand new hardcover copy of Oleander Girl.

An exciting moment in a writer's life, to see the actual, finished product, the result of years of planning, imagining, writing, obsessing, revising.

(Sorry, these are large files, and my techpertise doesn't extend to making them smaller, so you're only getting partial glimpses of the cover). The entire cover can be seen at http://www.amazon.com/Oleander-Girl-Chitra-Banerjee-Divakaruni/dp/1451695659)

I've been writing a series of blogs titled Countdown to Publication about the whole pre-publication experience--including tips-- at SheWrites, a wonderful site for women writers. To read, please go to http://www.shewrites.com/profiles/blog/list?user=2c9n0ngwvs6nm.

Details of my national book tour for Oleander, which includes Houston, the San Francisco Bay Area, San Jose, Los Angeles, San Diego, Detroit, Seattle, Portland (OR), Sacramento, New York, Washington D.C., Austin and San Antonio, are at: http://www.chitradivakaruni.com/about/upcoming-events.

I hope to see some of you as I travel!