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#WBNAmerica 2014: I'm a Book Giver, Again!
For the second year in a row I'll be a Book Giver for World Book Night in the US. If you're in the NYC area I'll be in Harlem giving out books but also keep tabs on various Givers around the world on Twitter!
Happy World Book Night (WBN) day! As I did last year I'll be giving away books kindly donated by authors and publishers to those who aren't avid readers or perhaps cannot afford to be. I'm psyched to be giving away books again and wanted to give a heads up that I'll be at the location of the now closed Hue-Man Bookstore between 125th and 124th Streets on Frederick Douglass Blvd after 1pm. I'll be giving out books until they're all gone, which may be quick. And, I'll be wearing a sky blue Book Giver t-shirt to make me extra official.:-)
This year I'm giving away Esmeralda Santiago's memoir When I was Puerto Rican, which I am very excited about.
If you can't make it to Harlem then be on the look out for Givers all over the US and not just in New York City. People will be tweeting using the hashtags #WorldBookNight #WBN2014 #WBNAmerica and so on. And there'll be cool events pre-giving on April 22nd around the US as well.
If you'd like to learn more about WBN and mark your calendar to be a potential Giver next year sign up for updates from their site or "like" WBN on Facebook. They're a great group of people and this is a great day to celebrate books and those who love them.
I'm a Giver...for World Book Night US (@wbnamerica)!
I applied and was chosen as a World Book Night (WBN) America giver! So exciting to share the love of books with those who don't often read because of circumstances. I'll make sure to keep you updated on how it goes.
I had heard about World Book Night (WBN) after seeing literary agent Ayesha Pande's exclamation about it on her Twitter feed last year. So I delved into it further and found it to be an awesome cause! I made sure to be on the alert when it came time to apply and huzzah last week I found out I was accepted to be a WBN Giver on World Book Night (April 23rd) in the United States.
You get to choose three books from the list of titles available on WBN's site and are then given one of your choices. I chose two I read: Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones (two fave reads from 2012). I also chose a book I haven't read Bossypants by Tina Fey.
What I will be distributing on April 23rd is:
I'm particularly psyched about this because in my neighborhood I think the tale of Esch and her family will resonate with the urban community I live in and near in Queens.
There will be numerous other givers throughout New York City and the nation on April 23rd. And it doesn't stop in the US, it'll be happening in the UK and Ireland too. Givers may be in front of libraries, bookstores, on random streets, working with non-profit communities and so forth to encourage you to read! I've already seen tweets from people in NYC, editors, agents, writers, and readers alike excited to help spread the written word.
You can keep updated with World Book Night on Twitter, Pinterest, Facebook, tumblr, and YouTube.