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

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