Bookplates and author signings

[cleolinda]

Okay, I have a question. I've signed two or three books locally now (because no matter how well you know someone, you always want them to sign a book if they manage to come out with one), and each time it's taken me like a solid half hour to think of anything to say. I was shit at signing yearbooks, y'all. I know that Neil Gaiman signs in fun

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[rebel_waltz]

this is my second dumbshit question of the day(my first was about the Justice League), but what are book plates?

[cleolinda]

You know those stickers or labels you can put in the front of the book that say "From the library of" or "Ex libris" and you can write in your name?

[thekatiefactor]

It's basically a sticker. That you put in a book.

Out of the authors that I have signed books from, Tamora Pierce just put her name and the date and "girls rule," Eoin Colfer just has his name, and then because it was my birthday Meg Cabot signed with "Happy birthday princess!"

[pizzalover23]

hah i WAS just about to ask that. ^__^

[theatre_angel]

Honestly? I think "I know what you look like naked" is perfect. ;-)

Really, though. I'm terrible at yearbook-signings, too, and I've never gotten a book signed by an author. Good luck with it all.

[spectralbovine]

Here's my Terry Pratchett signing story:

My friend and I were part of the Final Seventeen. When I handed the woman (I think it was his famed American editor) my book, she noted, "You didn't get to ask your question, did you?" She'd noticed! Cool.

"No," I said.

So when she gave Terry Pratchett my book, I got to ask him the question I'd wanted to ask him during the Q & A.

Now, the book I'd brought was the only Discworld book I'd ever bought, The Color of Magic, the first. And the copy I have has a Foreword by him which begins, "If I had a penny for every time someone asked me where I got the idea of the Discworld, I'd have-hang on a moment-£4.67

[athousanderrors]

tiiiiny point, but it would be seventy four pence. :) ounces is a measurement of weight.

/end random nitpick

[eofs]

I presumed that, in a moment of sillyness/confusion, he had actually said ounces. Until I saw the end of the story.

[spectralbovine]

He did say "ounces." Every time. I didn't even realize it was wrong at the time. What a joker.

[ann1962]

Ted Kooser, the poet, at book signings, takes women's addresses to add to his Valentine list. Every Valentine's Day he sends women only, a valentine with a poem he has written. I got on the list at one reading.

[cleolinda]

Whoa. I'm not sure if that's super cool or really creepy.

[atalantapendrag]

When Neil Gaiman signed my copy of Coraline he drew a little mousie in it :) I'll totally be sending you a SASE as soon as I get some stamps, but my handwriting sucks so there won't be much of a letter, lest I break your poor eyes.