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R. Scott Bakker Signing in London on 20 July

#21 User is offline   Tsundoku 

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Posted 22 July 2006 - 08:01 AM

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There were maybe four people at the signing, including the two of us - Scott wasn't exactly overwhelmed by the queue;)


That's what happens when stores have a requirement like "must buy a copy of the book from us" to attend a signing. It may have happened here, but I've never heard of it.

Did you have a beer with him and Jay?

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Posted 22 July 2006 - 11:51 AM

Nah, Jay didn't turn up either - at least, not that I noticed, unless he was the scary cross-dressing one... I was stuck with drinking with Werthead:)
However, they didn't have a must-buy-to-get-it-signed policy in the end anyway.
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Posted 22 July 2006 - 01:07 PM

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Nah, Jay didn't turn up either - at least, not that I noticed, unless he was the scary cross-dressing one... I was stuck with drinking with Werthead:)
However, they didn't have a must-buy-to-get-it-signed policy in the end anyway.


Bah!! I wanted to go ;) Why didn't you people make it may, or june when I actually was in the area.. BAstards trying to avoid me, I know it
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Posted 22 July 2006 - 01:38 PM

Well, he obviously really wanted me there:cool:
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Posted 22 July 2006 - 09:28 PM

QFT!

It was a good experience chatting with Bakker (I still can't believe we ended up talking about Goodkind with him for a good ten minutes though; I tried to make amends by reccing Scott Lynch) and cool to meet the 'Brood, aside from the fact that I got asked for ID by the obviously blind American barman in the pub afterwards. I haven't been asked for ID for a good six years or so! But yeah, it was good. Now to get Erikson across to the UK for a signing for Reaper's Gale...
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Posted 23 July 2006 - 12:08 AM

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Now to get Erikson across to the UK for a signing for Reaper's Gale...

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Posted 23 July 2006 - 09:11 AM

well, SE do have quite a few connections to the island.. We could organize a malazan get together in England next summer, then I'm sure we'd get him to bless us with his holy presence.. At any rate I'm convinced Mal would love to come ;)
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Posted 23 July 2006 - 08:43 PM

Sounds like a grand plan:)
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Posted 24 July 2006 - 11:02 AM

Morgoth said:

well, SE do have quite a few connections to the island.. We could organize a malazan get together in England next summer, then I'm sure we'd get him to bless us with his holy presence.. At any rate I'm convinced Mal would love to come ;)


Well, Mal _does_ have a reputation for godawful treks in inclement weather to live up to. What better way to continue than with a trip to England? :D

The solution is easy - just form a cult of SE, get him on the path to Ascension, and create a vacancy in one of the better warren neighbourhoods. After that, warren travel here we come!

EDIT: bummer on the Bakker signing. I always feel a bit bad when that happens, even if I'm not a fan. I once saw a signing advertised at Dymocks for some crime author a few years back. Walked past on the day, about 5 mins after it was due to start, and there he was at the table, with not a single fan in sight, looking slightly disappointed (not that I knew him enough to read his moods, but there you go). I actually had that "embarrassed-and-sad-for-someone-else" feeling. Still, I guess the trip, food and accommodation were free.

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Posted 24 July 2006 - 11:54 AM

I don't think Bakker was dissapointed. He doesn't seem to be the type who gets dissapointed. After all, he had a couple of shockingly clever fans there (:cool: ) and even a Simeon impersonator, if you know what I mean...
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Posted 24 July 2006 - 10:23 PM

To put things in perspective, when I saw Martin at a booksigning in Nashville last November for AFfC, he was telling this hilarious story about how in 1996, when his first SOIAF book had come out, he was scheduled to do a booksigning at this coffeeshop about 20 miles from a SF convention in St. Louis where Ray Bradbury (I think) was the guest speaker. So when it was near time to begin, there were about 4 people there. He thought it was for him, but when the PA announced that he was signing books, those people left. He joked he had to be the only author that not only had no books to sign, but that the people in the area fled when he was ready to sign the books! :D

So 4-6 people isn't too bad in comparison, right? ;)
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