From: "Strong, Lee" <StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Spreading the Word
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 08:25:51 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

	Well, I have a Nick Pollotta book in my personal library and Keith
is certainly welcome to drop by and place a Capclave '04 flyer in it.
	As a librarian myself, I am somewhat uncomfortable with placing
flyers in public library books without the consent of the appropriate
library director.  And I doubt that most professional librarians will
appreciate our using their books as advertising vehicles even for the
library related purpose of a reader oriented convention.  Better to ask
consent and risk rejection than create ill will by assuming acceptance IMHO.
Earlier this year, I donated money to the Mary Riley Styles Library in Falls
Church and generated good publicity and good will by working within the
library's rules.
	As an alternative, how about placing flyers on the community
bulletin boards that most libraries maintain?  I maintain a (Disclave-era)
WSFA business card on a bulletin board in a Falls Church game store.

-----Original Message-----
From: Keith F. Lynch [mailto:kfl at KeithLynch.net]
Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2003 1:53 PM
To: WSFA members
Subject: [WSFA] Re: WFC

Elspeth Kovar <ekovar at worldnet.att.net> wrote:

> Keith, this is an absolutely excellent idea.  It's probably too late
> to do more of this for this year -- best would be to put them into
> the books in libraries quite early -- but it's something folks doing
> publicity for future conventions should follow up on.

Thank you.  Unfortunately, I haven't seen any Nick Pollotta books at
the local library or local bookstores either.  (He's the '04 GoH.)

Maybe MJW should select a GoH who has books in print.
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