So it’s time for another “I’m so cool – I am an author” kind of post. I got my first fan mail. And my second actually, within two days. Here’s an image of the letters (no names of course).
Fan mail and thank you note
These letters show particular effort. I don’t share my address on the web. It’s part of my attempt to have some privacy for my kids. Not that there’s a huge worry about people stalking children’s book authors or their families, but you just never know. So if you want to write me you can always send it to the following address and I will get it:
Jennifer Fosberry
C/O Sourcebooks
1935 Brookdale Road
Suite 139
Naperville, IL 60563
But I don’t know how immediate that will be. So sometimes I give it out if you email and ask.
That was the case with the first letter, I received the following (edited) email:
I am tutoring little girl in ****, CA who adores “My name is not Isabella.” She wanted to write you a fan letter. I bought her the book after her grandma died and her mom said she slept with it. She then took it to school and the teacher read it to the class. She and they liked it so much that they wrote about it . Is there a way that I can get her letter and picture to you? She would be thrilled to know you actually got it.
So I shared. And got the lovely yellow letter with lots of great questions. I also got a letter from another little girl just the next day. Both great letters. So of course I wrote them back. See the cool Doctor Seuss notes. Don’t you love them?
I hope that they will love getting my letters as much as I enjoyed getting theirs.
Related posts:
- Jennifer Fosberry – explained a little bit
- 100 Things about Jennifer Fosberry
- BFNBT #2 – My Name is Not Alexander – Jennifer Fosberry Tour
The time machine is currently broken, so I need to tinker with that and keep reporting what I remember from my wonderful BFNBT for “My Name is Not Isabella.”
No pressure or anything.
Not because I am getting emails about the NEXT tour for “My Name is Not Alexander” for this March, or anything. But seriously, if I don’t “report” (and I use that term loosely as I believe it usually refers to CURRENT events) on those wonderful stops and events soon, they will start to blur into the next set of wonderful stops and events. Right now my memory is pretty good on happenings, not always on remembering people’s names.
Speaking of names, I am currently in Washington DC for ABA Winter Institute. I am getting to meet lots of booksellers, feeling a bit shy and yet mostly here for the fun stuff (receptions, dinners, etc.). I will also get to sign ARCs of Alexander on Thursday night. First ability to see how people react to it. Fingers crossed for that.
I went to a lovely reception at Politics and Prose last night, forgot my camera but my new friend Laura Duskta took a photo and put it on her facebook. I am stealing it to show you here (I am sure she won’t mind):
That’s me, Heidi from Sourcebooks (love her!) and Laura, my second NY Times Bestselling author friend (for “I Love You More”).
So done with the update, I’m trying to sneak in sight seeing this afternoon (there are a few new memorials since I was last here in high school – I’d love to see them!) before a reception at the Library of Congress. Then a fancy dinner tonight. My head is getting bigger as I type this. Don’t worry though, Mr. Woo Hoo Senior won’t let me back in the house without a proper deflation.
Related posts:
- Jennifer Fosberry – explained a little bit
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