Dine Now, Sign Later.

Examines the increase in the use of "presell tours" by publishing companies. Reports that presell tours, or meetings arranged by publishing companies between authors and booksellers, are a new method of persuading stores to carry new titles; Suggestion that presell tours are beginning to replace the more traditional book tours; Discusses how sales of the novel "The Wild Girl," written by Jim Fergus, benefited from a presell tour.