A LONG POST but I have so many to thank, one week on since our launch! Momentum is gathering. I can’t list all but here are a few of the organisations and people you might know, who have facebooked and tweeted, written personally, e-mailed or called to support and promote Jabujicaba. First (in very particular order) – our family’s hero, Sir David Attenborough, a letter AND a phone call – and of course John Burton who has been tweeting. Thanks also to everybody else at the World Land Trust – helping us to help them (to help you) through their work in Brazil’s endangered Atlantic Rainforest. By that I refer especially to Viv, Dan and Christina, not forgetting, Lee Dingain at Regua. Then, in no particular order: Rick Jones at Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust- next week those receiving their Durrell newsletter will know why. And Charlotte Corney at the Isle of Wight zoo – and Tequila the jaguar, of course. Some BBC presenters, faces you know have tweeted nice things and are reading the book (Nick Baker @bugboybaker) and Ross Piper (@DrRossPiper) whose old uni (Bangor) have been helping us too, spread the word since the beginning. And Michael Palin for his picture swimming in the Rio Negro with the toothy boto! Those who are doing interviews to connect the fiction in the book with the fact of life. Rupert Read (Green Party) for being such a sport and doing a ‘prequel’ with Marco Trani, who as a result of their meeting is inspired to enter politics and goes on to become the President of Brazil (in Jabujicaba). My special thanks to Elizabeth Rahman. What can I say – the Anthroplogist (with a capital ‘A’)! I would love a whole book to be written just on her real life experiences – more amazing than the fiction in the book. Her involvement has come with the support of the whole Anthroplogy Department of Oxford University who have tweeted and put our collaboration on their news feed. It is an honour (thank you Professor David Gellner)! So – on a rainy Bank Holiday if you have nothing to do and have not yet read (or bought) Jabujicaba, do so and visit a hot and steamy jungle, or singe in the desert of Brasilia, a city in the last stages of evacuation, or just go for a stroll down the beach in Rio. Copocabana or Ipanema, whichever – don’t forget your shades! Thanks to you all. The real author Buy here, buy here bit.ly/buyjabuji
Posted on: Fri, 02 May 2014 14:09:30 +0000