Dear readers, friends, and readers who’ve become friends –
I’ve been very negligent about keeping the website up to date; it’s been almost a year since the hardcover of CAPOTE IN KANSAS: A GHOST STORY was published last fall — October ‘07. It’s about to hit bookstores yet again, in paperback–September 22, 08, to be exact — a testament to how well it’s done in the past year. To give it a proper send-off, I’m doing a series of “virtual book tours” during the month of October. I’ll be visiting fifteen great sites, which I’m posting below, so be sure and check in on interviews, Q & As, some new reviews, even some guest blogging. These are all invaluable sites that are worthwhile for all the latest news on books you or your book club might want to check out.
Kim Powers’ TLC Book Tours TOUR STOPS:
Wednesday, Oct. 1st: Bookgirl’s Nightstand
Friday, Oct. 3rd: Book Room Reviews
Monday, Oct. 6th: A Guy’s Moleskin Notebook
Wednesday, Oct. 8th: Tripping Toward Lucidity
Friday, Oct. 10th: book-a-rama
Monday, Oct. 13th: Ready When You Are, C.B.
Wednesday, Oct. 15th: Bibliolatry
Friday, Oct. 17th: Books and Movies
Monday, Oct. 20th: Booking Mama
Wednesday, Oct. 22nd: Diary of an Eccentric
Thursday, Oct. 23rd: Maw Books
Friday, Oct. 24th: Book Club Classics
Monday, Oct. 27th: Books and Cooks
Tuesday, Oct. 28th: Devourer of Books
Wednesday, Oct. 29th: Literate Housewife
While Capote in Kansas: A Ghost Story is based on many real and little-known events in the lives of Truman Capote and Harper Lee, it’s my imagined story – a “fantasia” — of their 
great friendship, and even greater falling out, as Harper retreated from fame, and Truman gulped it down as greedily as he did his beloved “orange drink” (three parts vodka, one part juice.) If you ever loved To Kill a Mockingbird, as I did, or any of the fantastic writing of Truman Capote, you’ll want to read this, for which I’ve prepared a reading group guide as well.
When I started my first website, a year ago, I never imagined there would actually be more than that first book, which took every bit of blood, sweat, tears, and the few extra pounds of flesh I had, to write. Now, you can CLICK ON EACH BOOK COVER, to enter those separate worlds — the haunted, Southern Gothic world of Harper Lee and Truman Capote… or the equally Gothic, true-life world of those wacky Powers twins, in my memoir The History of Swimming. The book, also out in paperback now, got some great reviews, was a Barnes & Noble “Discover” selection, and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award Best Memoir of the Year. For book clubs and reading groups, I’ve put together a discussion guide, and hope you’ll contact me about CALLING IN TO YOUR BOOK GROUP (especially if you’re eating chips and guacamole and having Margaritas on the other end of the speaker phone.)
And of course, you can always reach me by emailing me. [Email address: kphistswimming #AT# aol.com - replace #AT# with @ ](Just click on the brown print — it shoots the email directly to me. Isn’t it clever what the internet can do?)
Happy reading,
(That’s Mr.) Kim Powers
