Picking the proper venue to launch a Chin Music title is always tricky. We've been lucky so far thanks to help from locals in Tokyo, where we launched Kuhaku at The Pink Cow, and New Orleans, where we launched Do You Know at the Saturn.

For Poppas, we turned away from watering holes and to a special little museum called the The Ogden Museum of Southern Art at 925 Camp Street in New Orleans. Jason Berry will be reading and signing there from 2 to 4 pm this Sunday, September 10th, thus kicking off our Poppas tour. If you're in the area, please come celebrate with us.

Next week, Jason's also speaking at noon on Thursday the 14th at a Hotel Monteleone Literary Luncheon, and at 6 pm on Saturday the 16th at Octavia, a bookstore tucked into a quiet block of Uptown that comes as close as anywhere in New Orleans of reminding me of home (Seattle) — a bookstore, a yoga studio and a coffee shop right next to each other (just missing the microbrewery and perhaps a Scandinavian gift shop). Octavia is a great place for a reading in part because owner Tom Lowenburg and his staff make great hosts and have been known to open a bottle of wine or two from time to time.

Finally, on Sunday the 17th, Jason will be at the St. Tammany Art Association in Covington, LA, from 5 pm. It looks like the perfect building to hear about larger-than-life Governor Rex LaSalle. Please drop by and support the arts in southern Louisiana if you have the time.