A happy announcement: CaliforniaAuthors has teamed with BookTour.com to offer literary event searches by zip code! BookTour is “the world’s largest, 100% free directory of author events” and now you can search the extensive BookTour database of literary events right from the pages of CaliforniaAuthors.com. That means you can find events around the corner or across the state. Click here to give our new search a try! Click here to learn more about BookTour.

Authors! Publicists! Want your events to be part of CaliforniaAuthors’ search results? List your tour dates with BookTour.com and your events will show up in our event search results. Want to provide CaliforniaAuthors readers with a complete list of your events? Join our Author Directory where your listing will include a link directly to all upcoming events listed with BookTour.com.

California Booksellers! Libraries! Want everyone to know about your great book events? BookTour.com is for venues too. List your events with BookTour — for free — and they will automatically be part of our search results. And, if you are listed on the CaliforniaAuthors Indie Bookstores page, we’ll link our users directly to a roundup of upcoming events at your store. See how it’s working for The Mystery Bookstore in Los Angeles. Click here to see Mystery’s listing on our bookstore page and then click the “event info” link in the listing.

On another tech note: When I picked up my new 3G iPhone — yes, I’m obsessed — I was happy and relieved to see how nicely good old CaliforniaAuthors performed on the mobile platform. Sweet. (pix above)

Back at ya: BookTour’s own happy announcement made my day.