PLA #2 - Book Schwag!
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vcmw*ahem* The Snoopy-dancing will now commence.
I get to read the new Melissa Marr book! Ink Exchange, I have been tantalized by your on-line reviews as posted by other folks with galleys. Wicked Lovely was quite enjoyable and I want to see how the new book stretches out.
I get to read the new Diana Wynne Jones book! It is called House of Many Ways. (It is already up for pre-order on Amazon.) Howl, how I have missed you. I've been pining for a new Diana Wynne Jones book: it has been too long since The Game came out, and it was only nibble-sized, and I've already read it twice. J. is sad because I won't let him read the galley - when I'm done it's going to my new Teen Advisory Group on Tuesday when we have our first meeting. I told him he'd put creases in it and then they wouldn't think it was so special! (I also told him that we could pre-order a copy right away, so that he would be less sad.) I forgot to check in my library system if we have it ordered yet, but if we don't I'll put an order request on Monday when I go back to work.
I get to read the new Melissa Marr book! Ink Exchange, I have been tantalized by your on-line reviews as posted by other folks with galleys. Wicked Lovely was quite enjoyable and I want to see how the new book stretches out.
I get to read the new Diana Wynne Jones book! It is called House of Many Ways. (It is already up for pre-order on Amazon.) Howl, how I have missed you. I've been pining for a new Diana Wynne Jones book: it has been too long since The Game came out, and it was only nibble-sized, and I've already read it twice. J. is sad because I won't let him read the galley - when I'm done it's going to my new Teen Advisory Group on Tuesday when we have our first meeting. I told him he'd put creases in it and then they wouldn't think it was so special! (I also told him that we could pre-order a copy right away, so that he would be less sad.) I forgot to check in my library system if we have it ordered yet, but if we don't I'll put an order request on Monday when I go back to work.
Also I have lovely gifts from the folks at Harlequin, Romance Writers of America, Tokyopop, Tor, and other good and fabulous places [I have trouble keeping some of them straight because lots of publishers have multiple booths for different product lines, so I don't know who to thank how many times!]. I think the folks at the Tor booth are tired of me catching them at assorted library conferences and saying: "I love your books, I love your website/website content, I love how all your editorial type staff have cool livejournals!". It's a bit SF-fangirl squee-ish, and that's not really the mental scene of the library world, I know. I do request a lot of their books for purchase through my library system buyer, so I suppose that is sort-of-the-point, but I would be doing that whether I saw them at a convention Exhibit hall or not. I still approach the Exhibit hall as more of a reader than a professional. At ALA a few years ago Terry Moore was there signing Strangers in Paradise, and I had to lurk around the corner for quite a while before a nice comic dude at a nearby stall helped me get up the courage to go buy some books from Mr. Moore and get them autographed. Tomorrow Kim Harrison is going to be signing, and I'm thinking "I *already* embarrassed myself at a Kim Harrison signing once getting all squee-ish. Isn't once enough?"
Pretty much all the galleys, bookmarks, posters, and other goodies are going straight to my new TAG, and I'm going to try to use that to entice them into signing up with some of these "be a teen reviewer and get galleys" programs that publishers have going now. Henry Holt I think it was gave me a nice blurb on how that works and I think some of the teens will find it quite keen. The timing is very fortuitous as it will be our first ever TAG meeting this coming Tuesday and telling folks "posters, galleys, bookmarks, and other goodies that NO ONE ELSE you know will have" is extremely enticing. I feel like some sort of mad Pied Piper of books as I talk to the teens about it all. I will try to write little blurb-ish reviews of each nifty book I get to read personally before I pass them on to the teens - non plot spoilery, so in the case of the Diana Wynne Jones book it will probably consist of me going: "It is very cool and stuff happens and also I like it."
There was a group of teens who I saw with Exhibit Hall pass badges on, and they had eyes as big as saucers as they collected their tote bags full of free galleys. I asked one of them about how it felt to get to go in there, and he said it was pretty awesome. He was affiliated with YALSA somehow through some program, and he said "you just tell them you're with YALSA and they give you all sorts of cool things!" I thought it was really wonderful to have that experience - that's one of those "being an insider" experiences that shapes someone in a positive way for life. And since those kids are likely avid readers and involved in lots of online book communities, they do probably spread the interest and good will in just the way that the galley givers would hope.
In non-PLA news I bought and read Cassandra Clare's new book "City of Ashes," got Connie Willis's "D.A." out of the library and read that, and also finished John Scalzi's "Old Man's War" yesterday on my bus rides to/from PLA. The Scalzi book reminded me more of John Barnes than of Robert Heinlein, but maybe that's just me.
Pretty much all the galleys, bookmarks, posters, and other goodies are going straight to my new TAG, and I'm going to try to use that to entice them into signing up with some of these "be a teen reviewer and get galleys" programs that publishers have going now. Henry Holt I think it was gave me a nice blurb on how that works and I think some of the teens will find it quite keen. The timing is very fortuitous as it will be our first ever TAG meeting this coming Tuesday and telling folks "posters, galleys, bookmarks, and other goodies that NO ONE ELSE you know will have" is extremely enticing. I feel like some sort of mad Pied Piper of books as I talk to the teens about it all. I will try to write little blurb-ish reviews of each nifty book I get to read personally before I pass them on to the teens - non plot spoilery, so in the case of the Diana Wynne Jones book it will probably consist of me going: "It is very cool and stuff happens and also I like it."
There was a group of teens who I saw with Exhibit Hall pass badges on, and they had eyes as big as saucers as they collected their tote bags full of free galleys. I asked one of them about how it felt to get to go in there, and he said it was pretty awesome. He was affiliated with YALSA somehow through some program, and he said "you just tell them you're with YALSA and they give you all sorts of cool things!" I thought it was really wonderful to have that experience - that's one of those "being an insider" experiences that shapes someone in a positive way for life. And since those kids are likely avid readers and involved in lots of online book communities, they do probably spread the interest and good will in just the way that the galley givers would hope.
In non-PLA news I bought and read Cassandra Clare's new book "City of Ashes," got Connie Willis's "D.A." out of the library and read that, and also finished John Scalzi's "Old Man's War" yesterday on my bus rides to/from PLA. The Scalzi book reminded me more of John Barnes than of Robert Heinlein, but maybe that's just me.
