Actress Tori Spelling calls on a layover from an airport in Texas, and since you’ve just finished reading a chapter in her new book that talks about her dire fear of flying, you ask how her nerves are holding up.

“I’m actually doing better,” she says, in a soft-spoken voice. “I’m starting to get over my fear, I think.”

Which would be a big help, for the 37-year-old actress, author and entrepreneur can’t stop working, and a lot of that work – including a book tour that brings her to Borders in Costa Mesa on Tuesday – requires travel back and forth across the country.

Her new book is “Uncharted TerriTORI,” and it more or less charts her life in the last few years: a reality series on Oxygen, a so-called feud with her mother Candy Spelling, motherhood and a workaholic lifestyle.

“Every time I finish a book, I’m like, ‘Oh my gosh, this thing just happened, and that thing happened,’” Spelling says of the motivation to write another. “And my fans keep saying, ‘We’ve read both your books, when is another one coming out?’”

She says she gets her work ethic – overwork ethic, perhaps – from her father, the late and legendary TV producer Aaron Spelling. And she’s chosen to open a lot of her private life to the world – through the books and the TV show and the Twitter feed – because it’s what’s made her career a success after earlier acting jobs such as the original “Beverly Hills 90210″ ended.

“I don’t really have any regrets.” Spelling says. “I was out there acting. And no matter what I did people had a perception of me.

“And I remember just wishing they just knew me,” she says. “I wish they could put aside all that background stuff and know me as a person.

“Then I opened up and said I’m going to show them with the (reality) show and the books and it changed.”

As for one of the issues raised in the new book, her workaholic tendencies, Spelling says she working on it, but then lists more upcoming projects than most people would tackle in a year or two.

There’s a sixth season of “Tori & Dean” coming to the Oxygen network, and a new series, too, “Tori & Dean Weddings,” in which she and husband Dean McDermott plan weddings for couples. Her first children’s book, “Presenting Tallulah,” comes out in September. She’s shooting a talk-show pilot for ABC, and, well, you get the picture, right? There’s still work to be done on balancing life as a wife and mother with work, she admits.

“I think over the course of the book I realized that,” Spelling says of the lessons the self-reflection and writing taught her. “I didn’t have a lot of time for me, so I’m still working on that part.”

From the OC Register

I have just added 31 photos of Tori Spelling from the book signing of “Uncharted TerriTORI” in Florida that was held earlier this week!

Tori Spelling is synonymous with many things: 90210, Aaron Spelling’s daughter, and being super skinny. But few would categorize her as a businesswoman. But, over the past few years Tori Spelling has done a great job at excelling in the world of business and making a name for herself as an entrepreneur. She came into the Forbes studio do an interview with me about the business ventures she’s involved with.

As the mom of two young children, Tori Spelling has her hands full constantly. She always wants to make sure that her children learn life’s lessons every day. On the topic of money, Tori was very candid. She told me she will make sure she teaches her children how to handle money, how to make great investments, and how to handle a checkbook.

“I had a very luxurious life, a life of wealth. Unfortunately, my parents really didn’t discuss money with us. We weren’t taught how to handle money. So when I started to make my own money on 90210, I didn’t know about savings, I didn’t know about investments. I had to learn the hard way. I had to go from having everything, to making it on my own, to losing everything, and then having to rebuild again the right way, but the smart way.”

Tori Spelling says husband Dean McDermott isn’t the only one recovering from his motorcycle accident.

Since McDermott, 43, has been home from the hospital, children Liam, 3, and Stella, 2, are having to adjust to seeing their injured father, who is healing from a punctured lung.

“It’s hard,” Spelling, 37, told PEOPLE at Dairy Queen’s Turn Blizzards Into Smiles event Friday in Los Angeles. “It’s hard because Liam’s a daddy’s boy, so he wants Dean to pick him up and we have to explain that daddy’s sick, that he’s hurt, so he can’t get up.”

Spelling also says there’s no way to predict how long before her husband is back to normal until he begins rehab. “[Dean] gets up for a short walk every day, but it’s hard for him.”

From People

Tori is going to be signing copies of “Uncharted TerriTORI” at Warwick’s Books in La Jolla, California on July 31st at 2pm!

Tori Spelling
Actress and New York Times Bestselling Author

Presented by Warwick’s on Saturday, July 31, 2010 at 2:00 pm
Signing Only *Only Books Purchased from Warwick’s will be Signed (signing line ticket required, but will be issued free of charge at time of purchase)

Uncharted TerriTORI
(Simon & Schuster)

Tori finally has everything she thought she wanted—a loving family and a successful career—but trying to live a normal life in Hollywood is a little weird. With the irresistible wit, attitude, and humor that fans have come to love, Tori is back with more hilarious, heartwarming, and candid stories of juggling work, marriage, motherhood, and reality television cameras. Like many mothers, she struggles to find balance, only most women don’t have to battle it out with paparazzi at the grocery store.

She talks openly about the darker side of life in the spotlight: media scrutiny over her weight and her marriage to Dean McDermott, her controversial relationship with Dean’s ex-wife, and her unfolding reconciliation with her mother. Having it all isn’t always easy, but with the help of her unconventional family and friends, an underwear-clad spiritual cleansing or two, and faith in herself, she’s learning to find her happy ending. Because when you’re Tori Spelling, every day brings uncharted terriTORI.