What Did You Do For Eddis Today? OR, Eugenides Wants YOU!

[scottykarrde.livejournal.com]

With all the excitement of Meg's Road Trip....
Just thought I'd ask/raise awareness of the Eugenides Sharing Gene, aka, How Have You Raised Attolian Awareness Today? (what a Tshirt slogan THAT is.) 

For instance - our library offered little suggestion slips to all readers - you know, which books have you enjoyed recently?-type things. Your comments were then posted on a display case next to the book in question, so visitors could try out your favorites, too. 

Well, three guesses what books were in MY top ten...Meg, my fave and awesome librarian (besides for sharing a name with a fave and awesome author, natch) bounced over to me the next time I was there to excitedly tell me that Thief, QoA and KoA were 'going like hotcakes'! I was thrilled. Gotta share the goodness around. 

I also wrote to Sharyn November, editor of Firebird Books. I admit I must have sounded slightly mad, I was slavering so lavishly over the books, but one can a fan do? She was very sweet, she told me that "generally Meg's fans are omnivorous readers". Hear that, people? "omnivorous readers". Swweeeeeeeeeeeet. I feel omnivorous already.

I also heard that The Dresden Files had a whole "bookshelf club" - y'know, every time a fan saw a customer anywhere NEAR the books at Barnes & Nobles or Borders or whatever, they praised it to the skies until the poor hapless lucky new fan-to-be left the store with the book...

So, let's raise awareness! Let's wear little buttons (slogans, anyone), decorate our cars with bumper stickers (ditto), become gently aggressive bookshelf clubbers, enthuse to our librarians....