HUZZAH! The sticker at last. At least, it’s landed on this side of the Atlantic. The CSK sticker shows up on Amazon even in the UK.
This is a better spot than where it was right after the ALA press conference – on the left, halfway on Mare’s helmet. I’d hate to be the person who has to decide where all of the stickers go when the awards are over… but I think this works.
And now, I must tell you a funny: you see how on the cover of the book, my name has no capital letters? In the ALA news release, my name had… no capital letters. And I’ve started to see my name showing up in people’s reviews and blogs and on the ALA website… with no capital letters.
I am now apparently related to e.e. cummings, thanks to the book designers for MARE’S WAR.
*snicker*
To be honest, I don’t care, I just think it’s funny that people are writing my name in a way I haven’t since about the 8th grade. But – whatever. They’re writing my name. I’ll take it.
Hee hee…the all lowercase name thing is happening to me too. Same reason. It's growing on me, but only a little. 🙂
Tanita: I haven't heard otherwise. It brings up the idea of just how much fun one could have with stickers.
Snh, snh, snh.
(And I really need to read that book.)
Farida: Thanks for the heads up. I wonder if any other authors run around and buy up stickers? I mean, do they let just anyone have them?
I know you can buy rolls of stickers at the ALA conventions. Here's a link to the ALA store for CSK Honor award seals: http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=443
Elle: Sadly, *I* don't have the stickers to give out – since they're awarded by the American Library Association, it's a librarian thing, and they have to buy them to put them on the books in their libraries. I don't really know how all that works, but if I get my hands on the stickers, I'll let you know!
Oh, the loveliness of the sticker! Placement is perfection!
I love the lower case you, because I'm a lower case me. 🙂
Congrats again on the award…and the sticker look just fine between the two girls. Any way you can send a sticker for my copy…once it is returned to me. At the moment it is making the rounds of my family…lot's of "me next" and it's a big family.
Neat about the lower case thing. Having a distinctive name is always a plus in the publishing game, so no snickering, 'kay? Well maybe now and then 🙂
Um, I actually think of you as TANITA. Always have.
Tanita aka tanita–
Congratulations again! The sticker looks great on the cover of your book.
So cool about the cover. e.e. cummings is good company. 😉
Paz
Charlotte: I still have seen no pictures of my book on bookshelves, can you believe that? When I was home at Christmas I actually (SHHHH!) …forgot to look.
Amazon UK carries it now, though.
Sara: lowercase me got a giftie certificate from D…. and the boot search continues apace!
CK: Exactly. Talitha is JUST THAT ATTITUDINAL. This is why we like her.
Tricia: I thought it was a typo until it kept turning up, and someone finally called and ASKED. CALLED. The United Kingdom. On the phone.
She really wanted to know and not cause offense. Which is just really, really sweet.
so very cool!
I noticed your name in the ALA newsbrief and thought it was a typo. Interesting turn of events… Maybe when your next book wears a shiny new sticker your name will be in caps on that cover!
That is SWEET, tanita in the lower case. I wish my copy of Mare's War had a sticker!
Tali looks a little like she's suspicious of it, or like she's thinking, "Whatever, I knew it was good before the sticker!"
*applauds placement of sticker* Hurray!!
P.S. Now that you have a trendy alter ego, i.e. "lower case you," I should think you will have to buy her the appropriate boots.
The sticker looks great- it looks to me like a highway/bridge/tunnelly thing, very suitable for a roadtrip book! (I shall keep an eye out for it in real life–I see it on the shelves of RI bookstores not infrequently)