This is Kimberly Hosey. I'm a freelance reporter, and I contribute frequently to the East Valley Tribune in Arizona. I was interested in pitching Bookcrossing as a possible story idea to the editor I work with (he best likes unusual, off-the-wall, community- or service-oriented ideas), and I was hoping to post here to gain more information about it. From the homepage, this looks like a general Bookcrossing group, but I was hoping some of you may live in Arizona or have connections or know Bookcrossers in Arizona.
My questions, for anyone from Arizona who has time to answer (post, e-mail, or by phone is fine -- just e-mail me and I can send you my number): How active is Bookcrossing in the Arizona? (Especially the East Valley area the paper covers - Apache Junction, Queen Creek, Mesa, Gilbert, Scottsdale, Tempe and surrounding areas - basically the Valley area east of Phoenix.) Are books regularly "released"? Do people know about it? What's the longest journey a book might make - i.e. how many hands have books been known to travel through? I know there is a way to track them online. If anyone knows of a situation where a book experienced a particularly interesting journey - from readers here to those in another country, from the hands of a young mother to a tenured professor or to our troops, anything (obviously I'm making these up, but anecdotes are great)... I'd love to hear it. How long have you been involved in Bookcrossing? What first got you involved in it? Do people seem dubious or excited about the concept of just picking up a book from the "wild"? Have you personally released book? How many? Have you captured books? How many? Does Bookcrossing ever serve to introduce people to different genres of literature, or to reading itself as a pastime? Do you hold meetings or traditional book club events as well as your Bookcrossing ambitions? What else should readers know about Bookcrossing? Those are all my questions for now. Like I said, I'm still in the pitching stage for the story, but if there is a fair amount of interest in the East Valley, or even passionate members who would like there to be more interest, I'm fairly confident it can get published. I hope to hear from some of you soon. Happy reading! Kimberly Hosey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have you told a friend today? http://bookcrossing.com/tellafriend Archives and email list settings: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BookCrossing Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BookCrossing/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
