A delivery of books!

[thistle_chaser]

What better thing to get in the mail than a delivery of books? After seeing my review of her books, the author very kindly offered to send me autographed copies of them. I love them! Now I just need to find the perfect place to display them

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[orangerful]

Wolf's Boy is on my desk right now as a booktalking candidate for when I visit schools. That is so freakin' awesome that she offered to send you copies.

I was just discussing with a few friends online if the art of the "fan letter" has gone away - like, actually sitting down and writing fan mail. Thoughts?

Um, and I totally agree with smudging your name out. There is a reason I deleted my Facebook when they DEMANDED I use my real name. Nope nope nope. I mean, it's not that hard to figure out but at the same time, it's safer to not throw it around out there!

[thistle_chaser]

Yay that's so great! I bet the kids will really love it!

I don't write anywhere near as many emails to authors as I'd like. Even though I wouldn't contact them unless it was over positive things, I still feel like it might bother them, like they might have to spend their valuable writing time to reply to me. In this case, she had something like "I love getting email from fans!" on her Contact Me page, so I took her at face value. :)

With the exception of one, no email I've sent to an author has resulted in something negative. Usually I either get no reply or (more common) a quick little email in reply. The one exception was from that author who wrote that story about the father who had to kill his son, and didn't want him to suffer while he killed him, so held his head under water until he died. I still laugh over how off that logic was... Anyway, that author was the only one whose response was snippy.

I'm glad I'm not alone! So many people online have no issues with using their full real names, but it still makes me skittish.

[orangerful]

My name is way too unique so I don't really want it to be easily searched. I'm usually pretty satisfied when I google "orangerful" and then google my real name and see comes up.

I'm going to have to find your review and see if I can use it to write a booktalk since I probably won't have time to read it before May. :)

Did you ever hand write any letters to celebrities?

[thistle_chaser]

The Wolf's Boy review is here: http://thistle-chaser.livejournal.com/1593721.html I hope you have time to read it eventually! It really was a wonderful book. :) YA too, so it was a fast read for me. (Too fast

[hamsterwoman]

How lovely of her to send you these autographed copies!

[thistle_chaser]

Agreed! I love them. The covers are so pretty, I'm going to stand them on my bookshelf so I can see them all the time.

[kishenehn]

Very cool, indeed ... you-who-must-not-be-named. :-p

[thistle_chaser]

Avada Kedav-- I mean, yes! Very cool! :D

[ani_mama]

Very cool! She even drew a cute little horse...

[thistle_chaser]

Yes! I loved that! :D

[ext_3971013]

That's so cool she sent you copies. I agree, I do love physical books (although it's a pain in the butt when you have to move!)

[thistle_chaser]

Yeah! I'm really happy to have these, but I'm not going to expand my collection of physical ones. These two do have a place of honor on my shelf though, so I see them all the time. :)