EAI Literature Kit - Guide for the EAI Literature Person

Six months of continuous abstinence is suggested.

Thank you for your willingness to do service as the literature person for your meeting.

VIDEOCONFERENCE MEETINGS

Responsibilities of the Literature Person for Videoconference Meetings

• Introduce yourself as the literature person at the end of the literature announcement.
• Announce that individuals can purchase literature on the FA website.
• Be available after the meeting to talk to newcomers and answer questions about the literature.
• Sample wording for the literature announcement during announcement time or posted in the chat.
  • Welcome to our FA meeting. If we were at an in-person meeting, we would encourage you to come to the literature table and give you a Newcomer Welcome Packet. Great news! You can do that online too. Links for the Newcomer Packet and FA Literature will be posted in the chat. Also, I will be available after the meeting to talk to newcomers and answer questions about literature.
  • (Copy and paste the following two bullet points into the chat).
    • Here is a link to the Digital Newcomer Packet, where you can read FA literature and listen to FA podcasts for free. https://www.foodaddicts.org/digital-newcomer-packet
    • In addition, this link takes you directly to the FA Literature webpage that includes books, pamphlets, and podcasts. https://www.foodaddicts.org/literature

How to Order FA and AA books

• Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous may be ordered from the FA website (www.foodaddicts.org)  or purchased through other websites that sell books.
• Alcoholics Anonymous and The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous can be purchased at many websites that sell books or at your local AA office.
• Twenty-Four Hours a Day and The Little Red Book may be ordered from Hazelden at 800-328-9000 or online at http://www.hazelden.org.

IN-PERSON MEETINGS

Responsibilities of the Literature Person for In-Person meetings

• Track the meeting’s supply of literature and order more literature as needed. Mark the price on the literature items.
• Set up the literature table before every meeting, laying out pamphlets, books, Newcomer Packets, connection Magazine,  and meeting phone lists. The FA literature price list is available on the FA website. The idea is not to make a profit, but to cover the shipping costs of literature and books.
• Introduce yourself as the literature person at the end of the literature announcement. Announce that literature can be purchased in member profile on the FA website.
• Stand at the literature table before and after the meeting and during the break to talk to newcomers and answer questions about the literature. Hand out Newcomer Packets. 
• Coordinate with the meeting treasurer regarding literature income and expenses.
• Create Newcomer Packets for the literature table (See asterisks * below for recommendations of what to put into Newcomer Packets.  Newcomer packets are customarily provided free to new members).

What may be placed on the literature table?

• Only FA WSI conference-approved literature may be placed on the literature table. It is best to have the agreement of the meeting group before literature is purchased.

FA WSI conference-approved literature includes only the following:

• Printed FA pamphlets ordered through FA-WSI.
  • Are you having trouble controlling the way you eat? ✸
  • Food Addiction and the FA™ Solution ✸
  • Before You Take That Bite ✸
  • Just for Today Card ✸
  • The First Two Chapters
  • Overweight? Obese? Overeating? There is a Solution
  • Living Abstinently
  • FA™ and the Health Care Professional
  • Food Addiction: Stories of Men in Recovery
  • Bulimic? Undereating? Underweight?
  • Food Addiction: Stories of Teens and Twenties in Recovery
  • To Our Families and Friends
  • Some Thoughts on Sponsoring
  • Your FA Seventh Tradition
• Books
  • Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous
  • Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book)
  • Twenty-Four Hours a Day
  • The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous.
  • The Little Red Book
• Meeting phone list ✸
• connection Magazine, sold for $2.50 each. ✸ (Old copies of the connection Magazine can be used in the Newcomer Packets.)

✸ Newcomer Packets are made up of the asterisk items above, which are customarily provided free to new members.

How to Order FA Literature

• Log into your FA profile and click “Order”.
• After choosing literature, pay online by credit card.
• All inquiries should be made to the FA-WSI office at web@foodaddicts.org.

How to Order FA and AA Books

• Instructions can be found in the section for videoconference meetings above.

TELEPHONE MEETINGS

Responsibilities of the Literature Person for Telephone Meetings

• Introduce yourself as the literature person at the end of the literature announcement. Sample wording:
  • Welcome to our FA meeting. If this were an in-person meeting, we would encourage you to come to the literature table and give you a Newcomers Welcome Packet of literature to read about FA. Great news! You can do that by visiting the foodaddicts.org. website and clicking the ‘New to FA’' link or the ‘Pamphlets’ link found in the Menu in the upper right-hand corner. These webpages give you access to FA books, pamphlets, and podcasts. Literature can also be purchased from the FA website. I will be available after the meeting to talk to newcomers and answer questions about literature.
• Direct members to use the search bar to find what they need.
• Announce during the break that you will be available after the meeting if you are able to stay after the meeting. 
• Help individuals navigate the website to find these helpful links
  • https://www.foodaddicts.org/digital-newcomer-packet
  • https://www.foodaddicts.org/literature

Revised 2023 March