Avid Readers
OK, yesterday I ran across this photo via a comment on John Grden’s blog
Now, I thought that was pretty cool, that a guy liked my book so much that he took a photo of it and put it on his flickr page. A little … odd… maybe, but still, pretty cool.
When I mentioned it to Pete Aylward at Friends of ED, he showed me something that just took the cake. I’ll just show you…
Now, realize that this is not one of the authors of the book. This is just some guy who apparently likes the book so much that he took two and a half minute movie of it and posted it on YouTube. Now, I’m all for fan adoration and all that. I eat it up. But this is almost creepy, especially when he zooms in on the author pics. It has bad serial killer b-movie plot written all over it. Anyway, I’m probably reading way to much into it, but all the same, I’m glad that’s not my book he’s fondling on camera. 🙂
Then again, I’ve sat in a conference keynote and taken photos of every single screen of an Apollo talk. I can imagine Mike Chambers thinking the same thing about me. 🙂
[Edit]I hope this post didn’t come off sounding too mean, like I’m saying people who read and appreciate books are psychos or something! I have tons of odd photos on flickr – of books, cds, rubber arrows, etc. I’m sure they’d look odd out of context. Same goes for the video – for all I know, that piece could have been used in some presentation or book review to show the book he was talking about. But seen by itself, it gave me a little laugh. Now I’m waiting for John Grden to do a Papervision 3D model of my book… 🙂 [/Edit]