Social Networking at work, or, I'm a winner (and I just might share the booty!)

Earlier in the summer, the library MySpace was friended by a young adult author named Heather Brewer. She wrote about vampires, and I thought "Gee, I bet our teens would love to read her book when it comes out." (And hey, who am I kidding? I would too.) So when she posted a MySpace bulletin about sending out free "minion" buttons, I emailed her and told her to send me a handful, if she could. When they showed up in the mail, I passed them out at Summer Reading that night, and we all took a picture of us wearing our minion buttons. I sent it to Heather, and she posted it on her blog with the rest of the pictures she had gotten from her "Minions". (She has since revamped --no pun intended-- her blog, so the pictures no longer load, but we were there.)

So recently Heather had a "Bat to School" contest, where you were entered in a drawing for various goodie bags and prizes if you signed up for her little newsletter. Seeing as how I will never remember when her new book actually comes out (August 2007, I had to look it up) I signed up. And guess who won?

That would be me. I came home today to find this lovely little package on the dining room table.



Inside, there were all sorts of goodies, including my actual prize, the rather nifty bat wing wallet.







Yay social networking!