I don't know if I can do signings anymore. The Pratchett signing in retrospect went really well and we got out around 9pm with books and greetings and not too many freakass fans.
The Lemony Snicket signing... was hellacious and evil and as much fun as "Lemony" was the whole thing was badly, badly organised.
It saddens me how the sublime and personal experience of reading a book... by oneself... can transform into a morass of obnoxiousness when you leave your house and get involved with other fans. Not that fandom is bad in and of itself, but things like manners, deodorant (cliched but true), decorum, all go flying out the window.
I'm glad you got to meet him. I need to pick that book up!
Yeah, I guess I just wasn't really expecting it. I work these conventions and I must mentally prepare myself before I do so, because the book signing just blindsided me. Yeah, I have a lot on my mind, but I was still surprised.
Maybe I ought to just go to book signing s with large (seven+) groups of people, so we can have our own little nation, awash in a sea of fen...
Yeah, the questions in the Q&A skit were all questions that Shatner had been asked. SKary. Extra scary, because it's with a "K!"
Bruce Campbell did not accept. He was very gracious in his refusal, actually. He wrote me that he and his wife really didn't have time because the book tour was so hectic. And he wasn't idding. I got to meet and chat with him at 11:30pm, and there were at least another hundred people behind me. Yikes.
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The Lemony Snicket signing... was hellacious and evil and as much fun as "Lemony" was the whole thing was badly, badly organised.
It saddens me how the sublime and personal experience of reading a book... by oneself... can transform into a morass of obnoxiousness when you leave your house and get involved with other fans. Not that fandom is bad in and of itself, but things like manners, deodorant (cliched but true), decorum, all go flying out the window.
I'm glad you got to meet him. I need to pick that book up!
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Maybe I ought to just go to book signing s with large (seven+) groups of people, so we can have our own little nation, awash in a sea of fen...
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You are not here to have a personal conversation with the author during the Q&A.
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We love Shatner.....especially grumpy Shatner.
So did Bruce Campbell accept?
His Biography is a very entertaining read. Gave me much more respect for the first Evil Dead.....
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Bruce Campbell did not accept. He was very gracious in his refusal, actually. He wrote me that he and his wife really didn't have time because the book tour was so hectic. And he wasn't idding. I got to meet and chat with him at 11:30pm, and there were at least another hundred people behind me. Yikes.
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