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January2008v2 ( PDF ) The Florida Current The University Press of Florida Newsletter January 2008 Taking the Plunge: On Tour with Lu Vickers When the subject of book tours comes up, my writer friends tend to fall into two camps. One feels that with all the changes in the book industry, writers must do everything they can to promote their work— including setting up and financing their own book tours. The second camp feels that book tours are more trouble and expense than they’re worth. I fell into the second camp, and not just because I’m shy. My only experience with a book tour, prior to the one I made on behalf of Weeki Wachee, City of Mermaids was a jaunt across Florida with a friend to promote a book in which we both had stories. I had a blast with From left to right: Urban Think! Bookstore manager Jim my friend, but we only read to a total of seven women and a handful of Crescitelli, Ginger Stanley Hallowell (former WW mermaid), sleeping cats. I don’t think we even sold any books. So, I was a bit leery Holly Hall (one of the mermaid twins), Lu Vickers, Dolly when UPF’s publicist Romi Gutierrez mentioned that a book store in Key Heltsley (the other mermaid twin), Darlest Thomas (former West was interested in having me down for a signing. WW mermaid), and Frank Billingsley of the Florida Humani- ties Council. My partner, on the other hand, had no qualms at all. She said one word: Hemingway. As if a trek to Key West would somehow catapult me into his company. How could I refuse? I decided to treat the trip as a family vacation and Romi set out to Voltaire’s Books in Key West had a small turnout too, line up readings in cities along the way. Unlike my first publisher who but they more than made up for it. The local paper Solares didn’t even have a publicist, Romi sent out press releases and review Hill ran a feature review and a travel piece on Weeki copies and I was soon besieged by reporters wanting interviews (and Wachee. I made connections with a Florida filmmaker, contact info for mermaids.) The audiences at the venues varied in size; met a woman who used to pilot Weeki Wachee’s tour at Sarasota Books and News I read to about eight people (including boats, and thrilled a couple of people with my vintage my family), but one of them was a mermaid I hadn’t met before. She’d Weeki Wachee View Master slides. (And I made my seen the article about the book signing in the newspaper and drove fifty Hemingway connection; his grandson John read the day miles to meet me. after I did and signed my copy of his memoir.) Continued on page 2 MARY S. HOFFSCHWELLE JOSHUA M. SMITH UPF Congratulates: Honorable Mention in the History of Winner of the North American Society Education Society Outstanding Book for Oceanic History John Lyman Book BILL BELLEVILLE JOHN H. HANN Award for The Rosenwald Schools of Award for Borderland Smuggling: Winner of the Florida State Winner of the Florida Historical the American South Patriots, Loyalists, and Illicit Trade in University’s Florida Book Award— Society’s Rembert Patrick Book the Northeast, 1783–1820 Bronze Medal and the 1,000 Friends Award for The Native American World of Florida Al Burt Award for Losing It Beyond Apalachee: West Florida and KEVIN D. McCRANIE JOHN H. SCHROEDER All to Sprawl: How Progress Ate My the Chattahoochee Valley Winner of the International Napoleonic Honorable Mention in the North Cracker Landscape Society Literary Prize for Admiral American Society for Oceanic Lord Keith and the Naval War against History John Lyman Book Award for MARTIN DYCKMAN DANIEL S. MURPHREE Napoleon Commodore John Rodgers: Paragon Winner of the Florida State Winner of the Florida State of the Early American Navy University’s Florida Book Award— University’s Florida Book Award— WILLIAM N. STILL JR. Bronze Medal and the Florida Silver Medal and the Florida Historical Winner of the North American Society FAITH EIDSE Historical Society’s Charlton Tebeau Society’s Harry T. & Harriette V. for Oceanic History John Lyman Book Winner of the Florida Historical Book Award for Floridian of His Moore Book Award for Constructing Award for Crisis at Sea: The United Society’s Samuel Proctor Oral History Century: The Courage of Governor Floridians: Natives and Europeans in States Navy in European Waters in Award for Voices of the Apalachicola LeRoy Collins the Colonial Floridas, 1513–1783 World War I Florida A&M University + Florida Gulf Coast University + Florida State University + New College of Florida + University of Florida + University of South Florida + Florida Atlantic University + Florida International University + University of Central Florida + University of North Florida + University of West Florida 2 Sitting Down with Author Barbara Aziz Q: Your dual perspective as a journalist managers to keep news simple, to keep and an anthropologist is clearly evident it “fresh,” to box our knowledge, to keep in Swimming Up the Tigris: Real Life early history (the history of the British Encounters with Iraq. In what ways did occupation of Iraq, the history of Arab your experience and training in these two nationalism, the history of friendly professions help you tell this powerful relations between the U.S. and Iraq in story? the 80s, etc.) Many agree that our U.S. A: Journalists do not have the leisure historical consciousness can be very or the copy space, in contrast to shallow. This needs to change. anthropologists, to dig deep and Iraq as a major source of oil is easy reveal connections and links between to explain and easy to sell. So is brutal culture and politics. On the other hand, dictatorship. Also media managers journalists can be more efficient in some to some degree must respond to U.S. ways. We learn how to use a single political pressures from the U.S. case to illustrate a general dynamic. administration and other major interests. Journalists are generally better writers They are not independent. We must and they can allow themselves inside accept this. the story (to a degree), something Q: You are adamant that Iraqis are not anthropologists try to avoid. victims. Why is it so important that the As an anthropologist, I brought my Barbara Nimri Aziz is a Fulbright Scholar world community view Iraqis in this 20 years of field experience in Asia to my and veteran anthropologist and her radio light? work in Iraq. I am trained, to see links program airs weekly on Pacifica-WBAI 99.5 FM New York and www.RadioTahrir.org. A: You cannot really respect those who that are not readily apparent operating you make ‘victims.’ Neither do they among society’s institutions, to carefully enjoy self-respect. Victims begin to beg, cross check facts, and gather many case to become dependent; so we become their histories. I am also of Arab heritage and military occupation. Swimming Up the Tigris masters in another (perhaps kinder) way. I bring my Islamic and Arab values and provides a unique glimpse into the hardships Victims often become like children. Men belief in my heritage as an asset to my of the embargo years. As a journalist, why lose their status in society, and this has work. I sometimes feel I am talking with do you think the mainstream media fails to severe repercussions. We really only care members of my own family. make the connection between the embargo about women and children…and, oh yes, Q: Much of what is written about Iraq and the Iraqi reaction to the invasion? old men. Iraqis understand this process today focuses on the invasion and the A: This is due to the decision by media and they refuse to accept this role. Continued from page 1 Audiences at Orlando’s Urban Think! and the crew from UPF made that event Bookstore were treated to the appearance of particularly special. four mermaids who graciously donated their Was it worth it? I have to say it was. time: Darlest Thomas, twins Holly Hall and Sure, I had to pay for most of the trip—but Dolly Heltsley, and Ginger Stanley Hallowell, turning it into my family vacation made that who later doubled in the 50s horror flick, reasonable. My kids got a chance to hang out Creature from the Black Lagoon. with mermaids and see some of Old Florida. I Books and Books in Coral Gables signed over a hundred books and converted a resulted in reunions with a few old few unbelievers to believe in mermaids. friends (and side trips to Monkey Jungle, Despite being mortified, I gave my Painting by Linda Hall. From left to right: Lisa, a Coral Castle and the Venetian Pool). An first two radio interviews, one of which I friend of Lu Vickers’ niece, and Vickers’ niece Holly. appreciative audience of forty people shared with one of Florida’s first and shyest showed up at the Book Center in Vero; the mermaids, Nancy Tribble Benda. Nancy and everyone who wanted me to sign a book. local paper also featured a travel article on I argue over who is the shyest: her or me. She signed a few, too. And when the reporter Weeki Wachee and a sidebar about the book. She claims she is, so I was surprised when from WFSU shoved her mike in our faces, A similar crowd showed up at Jonesberry she walked through the door at Borders Nancy and I both made like book tour Books in Gainesville.
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