{"id":386,"date":"2009-05-03T12:18:08","date_gmt":"2009-05-03T16:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/?p=386"},"modified":"2009-05-03T12:18:08","modified_gmt":"2009-05-03T16:18:08","slug":"t-a-barron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/t-a-barron\/","title":{"rendered":"T. A. Barron"},"content":{"rendered":"

As mentioned in an earlier post, I had the pleasure of meeting T. A. Barron two weeks ago.\u00c2\u00a0 At the time, he was concerned that I had the first and third books in his Great Tree of Avalon <\/em>trilogy, but not the second, and he asked for my mailing address so that he could send me the second book.\u00c2\u00a0 And lo and behold, last Wednesday I received a package from T. A. with a signed hardcover copy of that book, Shadows on the <\/em>Stars, along with a nice note.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

The thoughtfulness alone is enough to impress, but what really impresses me is that the note is written on a piece of stationery that says “With Compliments of T. A. Barron”; if he has had that stationery printed up, then he must regularly send gifts of books to his fans.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s a good, generous person.<\/p>\n

And I’ll say, too, that this is a wise marketing decision – I’ve been so impressed by T. A.’s generosity that I’ve made a display of the books that he signed for the library, and have been hand-selling those books to library patrons, telling each of those patrons that T. A. is a great guy as well as a great author…and that he grew up in town, to boot.\u00c2\u00a0 Legions of new fans are being born, fans who might not otherwise have found his books.\u00c2\u00a0 Which is a good thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As mentioned in an earlier post, I had the pleasure of meeting T. A. Barron two weeks ago.\u00c2\u00a0 At the time, he was concerned that I had the first and third books in his Great Tree of Avalon trilogy, but not the second, and he asked for my mailing address so that he could send … Continue reading T. A. Barron<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-literature","category-young-adult-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}