Big scoop from Alton Brown event

I'm still processing everything, downloading photos and playing catch up. But there is one BIG piece of Alton Brown news I must pass along. The Good Eats book (volume 1) will come out in October. AB told me around the 12th.

Then, I asked about a book tour. And the answer a big ol' YES!

Alton said there will be a tour, "extensive East Coast tour and some in the Midwest."

At this point, I asked if this tour would bring him to West Virginia. I told him I've been waiting for him to visit. AB, true to form, quickly said, "There are no bookstores in West Virginia."

I don't remember my exact comeback, but I did poke him on the shoulder. Afterward, mom asked, "What did you do to him?" She was behind me taking pictures, this is one of hers :)

I told AB, I'll have travel to attend the book signing. So he starts telling me that it wasn't his decision. The publisher determines the places and tells him to go there.

The question yielded more info about how book tours are arranged than I wanted to know, but I'm glad to know its the publisher's fault and not AB's ;)

He's not avoiding WV because of me... yet! ;)

Even thought he picked on my home state, big thanks to Alton for giving me the information.