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August 28, 2015 6:59 PM Subscribe
Is there anything like Bandsintown or Pollstar for touring/visiting authors?
When I read something I like by a living author, I'd like to know whether/when they'll be appearing somewhere within a few hours' driving distance (which for me means a handful of college towns, a handful of mid-sized cities, and two or three towns of a million or more, all in the Midwest). It'd also be nifty to be able to say, I'll be in town X on the Y day of this month; wonder if any good authors will be in town that day?
So I'd like to find an app or website that pulls author appearances into one centralized place (ideally RSS-able), so that I can:
-Search for an author to see where they'll be stopping off
-Search towns to see which authors are coming, and to where
-Search individual venues to see who they're booking
I know I can check online for these things the long and tedious way (looking up individual authors' or publishers' Facebook and webpages, scouring individual online arts weeklies)—having them all searchable and browseable in one place a la Bandsintown or Pollstar is what I'm after.
When I read something I like by a living author, I'd like to know whether/when they'll be appearing somewhere within a few hours' driving distance (which for me means a handful of college towns, a handful of mid-sized cities, and two or three towns of a million or more, all in the Midwest). It'd also be nifty to be able to say, I'll be in town X on the Y day of this month; wonder if any good authors will be in town that day?
So I'd like to find an app or website that pulls author appearances into one centralized place (ideally RSS-able), so that I can:
-Search for an author to see where they'll be stopping off
-Search towns to see which authors are coming, and to where
-Search individual venues to see who they're booking
I know I can check online for these things the long and tedious way (looking up individual authors' or publishers' Facebook and webpages, scouring individual online arts weeklies)—having them all searchable and browseable in one place a la Bandsintown or Pollstar is what I'm after.
I believe Goodreads will notify you about author events, but the author has to enter them for it to work.
posted by Jess the Mess at 10:11 AM on August 31, 2015
posted by Jess the Mess at 10:11 AM on August 31, 2015
Response by poster: Hmm, I figured if anybody'd know, it'd be the hive. Maybe an opportunity for some enterprising web-savvy person to start up?
posted by Rykey at 11:59 AM on September 6, 2015
posted by Rykey at 11:59 AM on September 6, 2015
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posted by judith at 11:09 AM on August 29, 2015