It’s Easy To Get Teens To Read.

' July 21st, 2007 at 09:39pm 4 comments

1 Heather July 22, 2007 at 8:20 am

Tammy, that photo just made my morning!

2 Tammy July 22, 2007 at 1:24 pm

Hi Heather!
I am glad that you saw it. I was going to email it to you with a thank you note today. My son loves your book.
Thank you for all your hard work.
Tammy

3 Heather July 23, 2007 at 6:43 pm

It always makes me particularly happy when boys like my work.

Given my sensibilities, it should be obvious that that’s not because I don’t think girls need the information, but simply because it can be harder to draw boys into it and keep their interest when it’s education and not sheerly sexual entertainment — and boys need it just as much as girls. So, when I manage that, it really pleases me.

(FYI, I’ve been considering making an offer to folks within distances I can get to to go ahead and do home-hosted sex ed gab sessions for teens and/or parents, so if you’ve interest in organizing anything like that in OR, let me know!)

4 Tammy July 23, 2007 at 11:07 pm

I have an amazingly open relationship with my son. It makes me very happy that we can talk openly about sex, but I am not silly enough to think that he will feel free to ask me anything, or that I will provide him with every necessary piece of information.
The approach that I took with your book was to show it to him, tell him he could read it if he wanted to, and then I just sat it down where he could easily pick it up. Sure enough it ended up in his room:)
Your gabfest idea sounds like a great idea. Unfortunately I am something of a loner and I don’t know if I could pull together enough people to make it worth your while.
Is there any chance that you might be promoting your book here in Portland? I would love to come and see you.
In Other Words might be a good bookstore to promote your book.
http://www.inotherwords.org/NASApp/store/IndexJsp
Or maybe Powell’s?
http://www.powells.com/