Meeting other QT fans....

[readsintrees.livejournal.com]

Have you ever met other QT fans in real life, without knowing them first through the group?

As I've talked about here before, several years ago I got license plates that say ATTOLIA. At the time, I was working in public safety and no one ever recognized what my plates were from, so after a few more years I said, "Well, screw this." I swapped careers, and a year and a half ago I started working in a public library.

After a couple weeks at my library job, one of my new coworkers said, "Is that your car with the Attolia license plate?" I said yes, and she said, "My son noticed it in the parking lot and got really excited. Both of my sons love those books!" I threw my arms wide and cried, "FINALLY!!! Nerdy validation after all these years!" I may have done some embarrassing dance moves.

Since then, I've relayed some nerdy tidbits through my coworker to her sons (like tipping them off that they could pre-order the new book from a certain bookstore and get it signed by MWT). However, it wasn't until today that I finally met these young Attolians!

The library hosts "Nerf Turf" several times a year, wherein the library gets locked up for the evening, and then about 20 teenagers get to run around, yelling and screaming, in the semi dark, through the library as they shoot each other with Nerf guns. I volunteered to chaperone today's Turf, and finally met my coworker's two teen boys!

We played it cool during the game, but then as things were winding down and they were waiting for their ride I said, "So....how long did it take you to read Thick as Thieves?" Then we geeked out for several minutes about which books were our favorites and why, and how crazy it is that they're not more known (after I told them how psyched I was that they'd recognized my license plates because no one else had yet, to my knowledge). I told them about my recent discovery with the Oxford comma and the wooden cannons, and we made mind-blowing motions with our hands for a bit. Much dramatic gestures all around.

Overall, it was very fun and very satisfying to finally meet more people in real life who've read and love these books. I'm a 32 year old woman, they're two teenage boys, and we're all wildly excited for the same books. How awesome is that?

*happy grin*

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Finding fans amid the ruins

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My daughter missed the book release because she was digging in Petra. But she discovered that three other young women on the dig were also waiting breathlessly. One downloaded the audiobook to her phone, but the others wanted to wait for a chance to read a physical book.

Re: Finding fans amid the ruins

[frosted-feather.livejournal.com]

That is SO COOL!