Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Paperback coming soon!

We are happy to announced that pretty soon there will be a paperback edition of the book! More things will be revealed in this edition. Now everyone will be able to enjoy it. Know what would be ironic? If you bought enough copies and donated them anonymously to your library or just leave them in the shelves. Now that would be awesome!

Saturday, October 1, 2011

Library Pages Speak Up

Many of you may know by now that all the Library Pages of Miami Dade County Public Library systems have been laid off. That's over 150 people, all gone in one day. Here's an email I received from one of them. It really broke my heart. She wanted to remain anonymous.

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Dear A. Librarian

I don't know if it's on the news yet, but all library pages at MDPLS have been laid off. I'm one of them. I'm still young, so I believe finding a job won't be as tough for me as for my older co-workers, but it still will be tough. My husband has been unemployed for over three months now and he has been looking for jobs every single day. When I told him the news that I was laid off...well, we were both really depressed. I just found out that I was pregant a few weeks ago and while I was excited about the news, I was already worrying about to do with my life.

I want to thank you for your book because it has made me laugh so much in this very dark time. I'm telling all my other page friends to go out and buy it, and I hope that you can publish it as a paperback soon. I hope it becomes a bestseller and people can see the truth about libraries, where corrupt politicians and inept library administrators never lower their hefty salaries, but yet always try to get rid of the little guy, in this case us the library pages. Again, thanks so much for the laughs.

A Faithful Reader

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