{"id":3960,"date":"2010-01-28T16:09:30","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T00:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=3960"},"modified":"2010-01-28T16:09:30","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T00:09:30","slug":"cranking-up-the-pr-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/28\/cranking-up-the-pr-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Cranking up the PR Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like any good author, one of my duties is taking to the airwaves to flog <a href=\"http:\/\/eternitytohere.com\/\">my book<\/a>.  A list of upcoming events can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktour.com\/author\/sean_carroll\">Booktour.com<\/a>, and of course you can always subscribe to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/eternitytohere\">Facebook page<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/eternitytohere\">Twitter feed<\/a>.  But I wanted to highlight some stuff coming up over the next two weeks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Friday January 29, 12:30 p.m. Pacific:<\/strong> I&#8217;ll be appearing on NPR&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencefriday.com\/program\/archives\/201001295\">Science Friday with Ira Flatow<\/a>.  (That&#8217;s today\/tomorrow, depending on when you&#8217;re reading this.)  Listen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencefriday.com\/about\/listen\/\">online<\/a>, or via your favorite public radio station.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Saturday January 30, 2:00 p.m. Pacific:<\/strong>  <em>From Eternity to Here<\/em> will be the subject of a <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/booksalon\/\">Firedoglake Book Salon<\/a>.  I&#8217;ll be answering questions online, and our host will be none other than <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/\">Chad Orzel<\/a>, who has <a href=\"http:\/\/dogphysics.com\/\">a book of his own<\/a> you should check out. <\/li>\n<li><strong>Saturday February 6, 10:00 a.m. Pacific:<\/strong>  Crank up your avatars, I&#8217;m giving a talk in Second Life.  (And if you don&#8217;t already have an avatar, it&#8217;s easy to get one.  And you can shop for clothes!)  Sponsored by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mica-vw.org\/wiki\/index.php\/Upcoming_Public_Events\">MICA<\/a>, it will be held at <a href=\"http:\/\/slurl.com\/secondlife\/StellaNova\/213\/210\/32\/\">the large amphitheater on StellaNova<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Saturday February 6, 5:00 p.m. Pacific:<\/strong>  For everyone here in Los Angeles and environs, I&#8217;m doing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skylightbooks.com\/event\/2010\/02\/06\/day\/all\/all\">a good old-fashioned book reading\/signing at Skylight Books<\/a>, an awesome independent bookstore in Los Feliz.  5:00 on Saturday night &#8212; what better way to kick off the evening&#8217;s festivities?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hope to see you there, virtually or in person!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like any good author, one of my duties is taking to the airwaves to flog my book. A list of upcoming events can be found at Booktour.com, and of course you can always subscribe to the Facebook page or Twitter feed. But I wanted to highlight some stuff coming up over the next two weeks: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}