Minerva, thusforth signing as Zenthus, because everybody likes and listens to a prettyboy.

A way to contact the outside world since I can't update the website from the interweb, but still run challenge. I've been coming up with ideas while cut off from the world to still promote Slayers Challenge.

If we want a chance at the rest of the series as we've tentatively hoped, we're going to have to work at it. I'm giving this account and she can make it all shiny however she wants and has more time than me to set the... stuff. To the stuff. And up to her to spread word of the community.

Okay. Current idea, which takes no money and minimal effort:

Check out how many libraries are within walking/bus/driving range of you, whichever is possible for all of you, or easier, check your phone listings, and call them. Ask if they have the Slayers series. Chances are, they won't. In all of Milwaukee county, there was not one slayers book, nor anything by Hajime Kanzaka - not in the whole system of dozens of libraries!

You can request books, I'm not sure if your area will let you do it by phone, but hey, give it a shot. Say you want the Slayers series, books 1-6, by Hajime Kanzaka, published by Tokyopop, with books 7-8 soon to be released only by internet order; specify that sometimes the books are hard to find, and if you don't know how your library gets their books, clarify that sometimes they need to be ordered from barnes and nobles etc instead of found on shelves or whatever, but they probably just order anyway. 7-8 is internet order only in a few months, from tokyopop.com, but you can request those later if they don't want to get into that.

What this does, is by calling every library you can reach, you're (hopefully) getting 6 books bought at each location. That's hopeful, though, so think that only half the libraries might do it. Do your best, and remember, TP is going to look at sales! For each time someone reads slayers in a library, they might think to buy it.

Go around, request them to be ordered, and if the books are put on hold for you when they come in, make sure you clarify that you just wanted the good series on the shelves because nobody had it!

It's a way to boost profits, so, go at.

And there's my thought for the day on limited time.

- Zenthus

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Special Thanks to:
for their work in the project, and to all Slayers fans involved.