I wrote about this earlier today on facebook and twitter. Then I realized not everyone on the planet follows me. (Not like posting this idea on the site is going to reach the Western Sahara, that country is still refusing to read Stuff Christians Like. I swear, you casually say you love Eastern Sahara one time and Western holds it against you forever.)
One of the things I am starting to work on with the book is the acknowledgments section. The truth is, if I listed everyone that I owe deep gratitude to in the book, the acknowledgments section would be 200 pages long and the actual book would be 2 paragraphs long.
So, me and Zondervan are starting to brainstorm right now about creative ways to make sure people get shout outs in the acknowledgments. I just think it would be cool to go to a bookstore and say, “Yeah, that page right there, that’s me.” And since C.S. Lewis always refused to do that kind of thing with his blog, I thought, why not? Why not me? Why not this book?
So on Friday, May 22nd I’m going to post a new creative exercise. The person that has the most responses and the person that has the best response (as voted on by readers) will get a shout out in the book. That’s a little cryptic, but now that the show Lost is off, someone has to be cryptic.
This will hopefully be the first of many ways I try to get folks in the book.
So stay tuned, stay funny and stay unibrowed. (I’m kidding about that last one but a few weeks ago when I ran into my cousin Josh, the very first thing he said to me was, “Hey, good to see that you kept the unibrow, I was worried you might have sold out and gotten rid of it.”)
Jon
