{"id":3096,"date":"2015-01-25T21:30:48","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T05:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/?p=3096"},"modified":"2015-01-25T21:44:29","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T05:44:29","slug":"help-plan-the-mark-does-stuff-2015-european-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/2015\/01\/help-plan-the-mark-does-stuff-2015-european-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Help plan the Mark Does Stuff 2015 European tour!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, friends! <strong>I am bumping up this post to receive feedback on my first draft of this tour.\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong>As you may have noticed, <a href=\"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/tour-dates-appearances\/\" target=\"_blank\">I am traveling to VERY MANY PLACES this year<\/a>! I focused so heavily on convention appearances last year that I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get to do as many of my own events as I wanted. While I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll still have quite a few cons in 2015 (including my first Guest of Honor stint ever, at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conquestkc.org\" target=\"_blank\">ConQuesT in Kansas City<\/a>!), I wanted to book a few tours this year to cover the US, Canada, and Europe.<\/p>\n<p>In the past couple years, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve only managed to do events in London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Paris, and Amsterdam. I know that I have a sizable audience in Europe, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not exactly certain\u00c2\u00a0<i>where<\/i> everyone is. The point of this post is:<\/p>\n<p>1) to determine which cities will garner the biggest turnout<\/p>\n<p>2) to help me plan out the actual logistics of traveling in Europe<\/p>\n<p>3) to solicit support so that I can pull this off and entertain you by ruining your life.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s get started!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><b>Where should I go?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Please use the comments below for this. Simply, tell me what city you would love for me to visit. If you agree with someone,\u00c2\u00a0<b>please upvote that comment<\/b>. You can comment, too, but upvotes is the easiest way to communicate interest. Feel free to tell me WHY I should come to your city. If you know of a venue you could help secure,\u00c2\u00a0<b>even better<\/b>. But this is pretty uncomplicated, and it will help me determine where I should book dates.<\/p>\n<p><b>How do I get there?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my tentative schedule:<\/p>\n<p>June 25: Oslo<br \/>\nJune 27: Stockholm \/ Multicon (Will include con events and public event.)<br \/>\nJune 28: Copenhagen<br \/>\nJune 29: Berlin<br \/>\nJune 30: Munich<br \/>\nJuly 1: Cologne<br \/>\nJuly 2: Amsterdam<br \/>\nJuly 3-4: Brussels \/ ENCon\u00c2\u00a0(Will include con events and public event.)<br \/>\nJuly 5: Paris<br \/>\nJuly 6: Geneva<br \/>\nJuly 8: London<br \/>\nJuly 9: Brighton<br \/>\nJuly 10: Bath<br \/>\nJuly 11: Manchester<br \/>\nJuly 12: Leeds<br \/>\nJuly 13: York<br \/>\nJuly 14: Newcastle<br \/>\nJuly 15: Edinburgh<br \/>\nJuly 16: Glasgow<br \/>\nJuly 18: Belfast<br \/>\nJuly 19: Dublin<\/p>\n<p>If I know you or am familiar with you and you can offer me a spare bed or couch in any of these cities, please let me know. If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to do a road trip and can drive, let me know! Again, while I love making friends and interacting with people in the REAL WORLD that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve talked to online, please don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t take it personally if I do not take up your offer. I have to keep myself safe, and I rarely, if ever, take such offers from people who are total strangers to me.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, <b>do you know where I could host an event?<\/b> This is, honestly, the most complicated part of this. Booking events in the US isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t so bad because I speak English, I can at least reference my Hugo nominations or point to my community, or I actually know the book stores\/libraries\/etc that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m reaching out to. It is\u00c2\u00a0<i>much<\/i> harder for an independent writer in the US to do this in Europe. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have an agent or anything, so it helps if those who actually live in these cities and communities act as an agent to help me book these. I am absolutely not opposed to Mark in the Park style meet-ups if a date falls on a weekend! My only issues are that a venue has to be accessible (no stairs or an elevator if there are stairs), they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have a mandatory admission, and it will admit minors or those under the drinking age. My audience skews young, and I want folks to be able to come. <b>I can afford to rent venues if necessary<\/b>, but only if its not exorbitant.<\/p>\n<p>And finally!<\/p>\n<p><b>How can you help get me to your city?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The easiest way? <a href=\"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/2013\/09\/help-keep-mark-does-stuff-running\/\" target=\"_blank\">Buy something from me or donate to me or use that Amazon link described in this linked post<\/a>. This is not a cheap thing to do, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve never done a tour where I made money. I always lose it. I expect that, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to get closer to breaking even. So, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the easiest thing you can do to get me closer to making this a reality. (And then I can start planning my ultimate goal: Mark Does Stuff in Australia. IT NEEDS TO HAPPEN.)<\/p>\n<p>Please feel free to ask questions or for clarification; if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re wary of IntenseDebate and don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to use it, my email inbox is for you!\u00c2\u00a0<b>markreadsandwatches at gmail<\/b>. Thank you so much for your support and for making this\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 hell, making this even\u00c2\u00a0<i>possible<\/i>. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s incredible to me that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m at a point in my life and my career that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m actually putting up a post like this. Thank you. &lt;3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, friends! I am bumping up this post to receive feedback on my first draft of this tour.\u00c2\u00a0As you may have noticed, I am traveling to VERY MANY PLACES this year! 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