Yesterday, I sent my first-ever book to a kid in Delaware.
Like most Californians, I continue to have my doubts as to the actual existence of the state of Delaware.
We never see cars from Delaware here... so it either must be just that cool of a place that nobody wants to leave or it doesn't exist. Maybe the entire state was abducted by aliens or something.
But, anyway, Brian... that is, if you, indeed are real and of this world, I sent you a copy of The Marbury Lens, just like I promised I would.
A couple weeks ago, I posted something about a boy from Canada who was having a hard time finding books to connect to. So, being fully confident that Canada exists -- having been there numerous times -- I sent him a copy of The Marbury Lens as well.
Mail to Canada, like mail to the cosmos, takes a while. He just got the book yesterday, and his mom, quite a respectable book blogger, posted something about it on her site, The Books I Read (linked below).
Anyway, it's a nice story that makes me feel -- brace yourself -- happy. So I hope the kid enjoys the trip to Marbury, which is probably a lot like Delaware, now that I consider the is-it-real-or-not implications.
But his mom told me that the boy's library actually has a copy of The Marbury Lens on hand.
So, I'm not just extraterrestrial, I am international.
Speaking of which...
The other day I got a chance to meet and chat with author Lauren Kate. It was really cool. Lauren, who writes the Fallen series, told me she'd recently returned from a book tour to the Philippines.
I was, like, holy crap, The Philippines???
I thought that would be the coolest place ever to go on a book tour.
And Lauren was, like, telling me how all the kids there were crazy about The Marbury Lens, too, which I thought was super-cool.
She said something like, You're HUGE in the Philippines, which made me feel a little self-conscious, considering I thought my outfit of choice for the evening was rather slimming.
Anyway, you can read The Books I Read here.
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Okay, okay. Delaware is real. It's just small. But as I tell my son, pequeno pero poderoso.
I don't know why but the Rehoboth Beach area (a place I stayed once) reminded me of the beach in England Jack 'wakes' up at. Strange connection to Delaware.
The link to The Books I Read was great also.
I, too, have questioned the existence of Delaware. I think it's a conspiracy.
Very cool about the Philippines. I'm not surprised that TML has universal appeal.
On my way to read that other post ...
This post made me smile. I don't think I've ever seen a license plate from Delaware. Nor have I ever thought about authors doing tours in the Philippines. So, not only did your make me smile, you made me think. I'm not sure that's a good thing, though.
I got my Ph.D. from the University of Delaware. It does, indeed, exist. My recollections of it are probably skewed by the haze of intense anxiety in which I spent those years. It's most likely not the place of great evil I believed it to be at the time.
I feel bad for Delaware. First state, and no one actually remembers it... I think most non-Delawaran Americans would point at New Jersey if asked where Delaware is.
Delaware is directly below me (I live in PA). I've been driving through it for as long as I can remember to visit my hometown VA Beach and my extended family. I also interned for MetroKids magazine in the fall which required me to update attraction listings in PA, NJ and Delaware.
...and you are all making that up.
Poor Delaware. West Virginia feels its pain. The statement "I'm from West Virginia" tends to be met with questions like, "Do you live near Richmond?"
Unless your conversational partner has seen the movie WRONG TURN, and then the response is a nervous nod and a quick change of subject.
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