While thinking about a release date for my debut novel, The Superiority Contest, I discovered there is such a thing as World Tourism Day. And that is today, September 27.

World Tourism Day would have been an appropriate occasion to release a world traveler’s tale, but the novel wasn’t ready, and it’s more important to get that right. Over my long adulthood I have learnt that Hamlet was right when he said, “The readiness is all.”

In this discussion with his bestie, my favorite literary character was referring to his impending duel with Laertes, which could possibly end in his death. (Which it does. The play can’t go on forever.)

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