A Facebook group called ‘Book deals for broke Bibliophiles’ took to Twitter to get the famous English author Neil Gaiman to India.In an effort to attract his attention, the group members came up with hashtag #BringGaimanToIndia and to their surprise Gaiman acknowledged their efforts on Twitter.
It all started when Gaiman conducted a Facebook Live session to promote his new book, The View From the Cheap Seats on June 1st and that’s when this Facebook group which intends to curate online book deals in India decided to go viral with the hashtag #BringGaimanToIndia. Followed by which people from across the country gave hundreds of reasons to the author to visit India under the hashtag.
And guess what! He responded to this trending hashtag and tweeted to one of his fan saying
This didn’t really end here, the Humming tree, a popular music and art venue in Bengaluru known for bringing authors and singers from across the globe, followed suit and took all this madness to the next level by actually trying to get the author visit India.
Let’s just keep our fingers crossed and hope that the legend visits India soon.
