This makes me so happy! One of my readers sent me this picture. It’s a photo of my book, Coming Out Atheist: How to Do It, How to Help Each Other, and Why — the copy that belongs to the Upper Arlington Library in Ohio!
It makes me supremely happy to see that my books are in libraries. It means that people who can’t afford to buy books can still read them. (My books are pretty affordable if you get them as ebooks — and no, you don’t need an ebook reader to read ebooks, you just need a computer or a smartphone — but I understand that even the cost of an ebook will stretch the budget for many people.) It means that my books are available to people who are doing research. And it means that people who are just browsing in library shelves can come across them.
In fact, I’m going to ask all y’all a favor. Could you request that your library carry either or both of my books — Coming Out Atheist: How to Do It, How to Help Each Other, and Why, and Why Are You Atheists So Angry? 99 Things That Piss Off the Godless? It’d be nice to ask bookstores about it, too. Yes, the books are carried by standard distributors, including Ingram, Baker & Taylor, and IPG. (Bending: Dirty Kinky Stories About Pain, Power, Religion, Unicorns, & More isn’t out in physical print yet, otherwise I’d be asking you to request that one, too.)
And if you see a copy of either book in your library and/or bookstore, could you take a picture and send it to me? Thanks!
As an Ohioan I am also really pleased to see your book is available in a public library in my state. I take my daughter to our local library every other week. She is not even 2 yet, but my wife and I want her to grow up loving libraries and books. I hope to run into books like yours there and I will be sure to put in a request that they carry these the next time I go there, if they don’t have them already.
The UA public library has been very receptive to suggestions from myself and other patrons to obtain your books and others about atheism. This library also has “Coming out Atheist …”
Sorry, I meant to say they also have “Why are you atheists so angry…”
donterndrup @ #3: Cool! If you happen to think of it, would you be willing to take a picture and send it to me? I think I want to start a collection of pics of my books in libraries.
I’ll be glad to send a picture, when I can. “Why are you atheists so angry…” is currently checked out!
Nice job, donterndup! The UA Library is the one I grew up going to. Glad to see they are open to these awesome books.
Let me note that Upper Arlington belongs to a consortium of almost all the libraries in the Columbus area, so your book is available to the whole more than 1,000,000 people there. I could order it to be delivered to my own local library. Of course, the problem is, there is only the one copy of your book—all the other libraries really need to get it so that there are enough copies to go around.