Calling for submissions! If you're an author, bookseller, or librarian and you have a story to tell about someone you've encountered while at a book signing, selling books, or renting them, please check out http://illliterati.wordpress.com/ and submit your story!
You know ‘em.
The man who shows up at your book signing with no intention of buying your book but to tell you in agonizing detail about how he’s always wanted to write a book about his pet poodles …
The so-smelly-she-makes-your-eyes-water woman with one massive (unintentional) dreadlock who manages to repel all other patrons so that she’s the only one traipsing through the library.
The Soccer Mom with the sweetest smile who nearly rips your eyes out of their sockets when you inform her that you are sorry but you’re out of stock of the third book in the Twilight series.
If you’ve worked at a library or as a bookseller or if you’ve sat behind the table at a book signing, you’re bound to have some stories about crazies of your own (or just the occasional crazy actions of otherwise normal humans), and we want to collect them!
We’re calling for submissions of any length, style or format regarding the crazy people you have encountered while in a place of books. These submissions will be put together in a collection titled IllLiterati: Crazy People In Books.
You are invited to complain, tell a tear-jerker, recall instances, craft a poem, show it in graphic form, write a full-fledged story. Perhaps a list of crazies’ quotes, a rant, a tribute, an essay … You might even draw a picture of one of the people you’ve encountered.
Looking forward to reading your submission, Jessie Editor, IllLiterati: Crazy People In Books illliteraticrazypeopleinbooks@gmail.com http://illliterati.wordpress.com/
You know ‘em.
The man who shows up at your book signing with no intention of buying your book but to tell you in agonizing detail about how he’s always wanted to write a book about his pet poodles …
The so-smelly-she-makes-your-eyes-water woman with one massive (unintentional) dreadlock who manages to repel all other patrons so that she’s the only one traipsing through the library.
The Soccer Mom with the sweetest smile who nearly rips your eyes out of their sockets when you inform her that you are sorry but you’re out of stock of the third book in the Twilight series.
If you’ve worked at a library or as a bookseller or if you’ve sat behind the table at a book signing, you’re bound to have some stories about crazies of your own (or just the occasional crazy actions of otherwise normal humans), and we want to collect them!
We’re calling for submissions of any length, style or format regarding the crazy people you have encountered while in a place of books. These submissions will be put together in a collection titled IllLiterati: Crazy People In Books.
You are invited to complain, tell a tear-jerker, recall instances, craft a poem, show it in graphic form, write a full-fledged story. Perhaps a list of crazies’ quotes, a rant, a tribute, an essay … You might even draw a picture of one of the people you’ve encountered.
Looking forward to reading your submission,
Jessie
Editor, IllLiterati: Crazy People In Books
illliteraticrazypeopleinbooks@gmail.com
http://illliterati.wordpress.com/