There will be no stops at the Barnes and Noble in Old Pasadena on this book tour.
No lines of adoring fans will snake out of Book Soup to clog the sidewalks of the Sunset Strip.
But people have been showing up in droves at Los Angeles' tiniest bookstores to see first-time author Melvin Farmer, one of the few people in California to get a three-strikes conviction overturned.
Farmer's autobiographical book, "The New Slave Ship--A Ship That Does Not Sail" tells the story of a twice-convicted felon who is found guilty once again, this time for possession of less then a gram of cocaine in 1994. He was sentenced to 34 years to life.
Farmer says the drug was planted because of his notoriety as a gang leader in the 1970s. He served three years and eight months before a state appeals court judge overturned the conviction because of an illegal search of the house that Farmer was staying at in Madera County.
