Article: `Good Morning America' a wake-up call.(Columns)(Column)

Byline: Bob Welch / The Register-Guard

BOSTON - This column wasn't my idea; it was an editor's.

I'd like to write about the hotel where I'm staying, a pie-shaped, century-old brick building with dark, winding hallways; guests who remind me of the cast of a murder mystery weekend; and a free continental breakfast in an adjacent Japanese sushi/karaoke bar.

Instead, I'm writing about what it was like to be interviewed for `Good Morning America,' which plans Thursday to air a segment on a book I've written, `American Nightingale.'

Book promotion is a crapshoot. You try for months, unsuccessfully, to land a signing gig at some backwoods ...

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