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My First book signing
I attended my first book signing today 7/5, for two authors, Lawrence
Block (whom I collect) and Peter Blauner. The event was scheduled as an outdoor lunchtime signing at the Bryant Park Reading Room in NYC, but had to be moved indoors to the Coliseum Bookstore across the street due to the weather. Luckily I happened to have the day off, so I brought a couple of books from home to get signed and braved the rain, making absolutely certain my books would not see a drop of rain. Hosting the event was Charles Ardai, author and publisher of the Hard Case Crime pulp fiction series. The event was pretty well attended given the weather and the inconvenient time ... I mean how many people can actually attend a weekday midday book signing. After a little under an hours worth of talk and Q & A, both informative and humorous, I purchased Block latest book, Hit Parade at the front counter and brought my books to the signing table with the understanding that Block signs 3 copies of books from home for every new book purchased. He signed my first edition copies (with DJ) of Deadly Honeymoon (his first hardback novel), After the First Death and Eight Million Ways to Die as well as his new book. During my little chat with him, he complimented me on how nice my copies were. After this Charles Ardai was gracious enough to sign another book I brought from home, Little Girl Lost. This, his first novel, was published under his pseudonym Richard Aleas. He signed it "Charles Ardai, aka Richard Aleas 7/5/2006". He jokingly commented that this hardcover first was quite scarce, believing only about 500 were published. All in all it was a great day of meeting authors i admire and making my growing collection a little more special. AL |
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My First book signing
On 5 Jul 2006 13:57:42 -0700, "Carney Wilde"
wrote: The event was pretty well attended given the weather and the inconvenient time ... I mean how many people can actually attend a weekday midday book signing. Well, there are several hundred thousand people who go to lunch around there (Bryant Park, 42nd Street & 5th Ave, NYC.) Actually,as someone who messes with Latin American lit, a year or so ago I went to an Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez event at the same time and venue, and I was the only one who showed up. I suppose she must have been unhappy. I expressed my desire for a private reading, which was denied, but she did sign my books. Secretly I admit that I really go for the signings more than the readings/QA, so that was my ideal event, lol Denton |
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My First book signing
I envy you.
Al this time, I've been trying to arrange my schedule so I can attend such event but no luck up 'til now. We'll see next time if I can manage to at least get a book signed, I'll let you all know! cheers, la agua fresca http://aguafresca.healhtifica.com PS: Wish me luck! Carney Wilde wrote: I attended my first book signing today 7/5, for two authors, Lawrence Block (whom I collect) and Peter Blauner. The event was scheduled as an outdoor lunchtime signing at the Bryant Park Reading Room in NYC, but had to be moved indoors to the Coliseum Bookstore across the street due to the weather. Luckily I happened to have the day off, so I brought a couple of books from home to get signed and braved the rain, making absolutely certain my books would not see a drop of rain. Hosting the event was Charles Ardai, author and publisher of the Hard Case Crime pulp fiction series. The event was pretty well attended given the weather and the inconvenient time ... I mean how many people can actually attend a weekday midday book signing. After a little under an hours worth of talk and Q & A, both informative and humorous, I purchased Block latest book, Hit Parade at the front counter and brought my books to the signing table with the understanding that Block signs 3 copies of books from home for every new book purchased. He signed my first edition copies (with DJ) of Deadly Honeymoon (his first hardback novel), After the First Death and Eight Million Ways to Die as well as his new book. During my little chat with him, he complimented me on how nice my copies were. After this Charles Ardai was gracious enough to sign another book I brought from home, Little Girl Lost. This, his first novel, was published under his pseudonym Richard Aleas. He signed it "Charles Ardai, aka Richard Aleas 7/5/2006". He jokingly commented that this hardcover first was quite scarce, believing only about 500 were published. All in all it was a great day of meeting authors i admire and making my growing collection a little more special. AL |
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My First book signing
On 5 Jul 2006 13:57:42 -0700, "Carney Wilde"
wrote: I attended my first book signing today 7/5, for two authors, Lawrence Block (whom I collect) and Peter Blauner. The event was scheduled as an outdoor lunchtime signing at the Bryant Park Reading Room in NYC, but had to be moved indoors to the Coliseum Bookstore across the street due to the weather. Luckily I happened to have the day off, so I brought a couple of books from home to get signed and braved the rain, making absolutely certain my books would not see a drop of rain. Hosting the event was Charles Ardai, author and publisher of the Hard Case Crime pulp fiction series. The event was pretty well attended given the weather and the inconvenient time ... I mean how many people can actually attend a weekday midday book signing. After a little under an hours worth of talk and Q & A, both informative and humorous, I purchased Block latest book, Hit Parade at the front counter and brought my books to the signing table with the understanding that Block signs 3 copies of books from home for every new book purchased. He signed my first edition copies (with DJ) of Deadly Honeymoon (his first hardback novel), After the First Death and Eight Million Ways to Die as well as his new book. During my little chat with him, he complimented me on how nice my copies were. After this Charles Ardai was gracious enough to sign another book I brought from home, Little Girl Lost. This, his first novel, was published under his pseudonym Richard Aleas. He signed it "Charles Ardai, aka Richard Aleas 7/5/2006". He jokingly commented that this hardcover first was quite scarce, believing only about 500 were published. All in all it was a great day of meeting authors i admire and making my growing collection a little more special. AL You're quite lucky to live in a place like NYC - cultural mecca of the US, IMO. I grew up on Long Island, and have been living in South Florida for over 20 years now, so events like the one you described are few and far between. When I read about stuff like this, I really miss living up there. But we make about 3 or 4 trips up a year and it's barely enough to satisfy a former residents cultural craving. I'm not bashing South Florida - it's great to be able to be on the beach on New Years day, but NYC is like no other place in the world, for many varied reasons. Congrats on getting to your first signing. It is quite a thrill coming home with those books now that they are signed, isn't it? For me, that feeling has never gone away. I get it every time I get to a signing. Regards, LiRM |
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My First book signing
Yeah, but at least you get to go to the Carl Hiassen signings :-)
Denton On Thu, 06 Jul 2006 08:24:13 -0400, LiRM wrote: I grew up on Long Island, and have been living in South Florida for over 20 years now, so events like the one you described are few and far between. |
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My First book signing
On Thu, 06 Jul 2006 17:21:02 -0400, Denton Taylor
wrote: Yeah, but at least you get to go to the Carl Hiassen signings :-) Denton Yes, indeed, he is all over town. And Dave Barry as well. They are both gentlemen when it comes to signings. Their lines usually run for blocks and I've never seen either one of them take anything but the finest and most well mannered approach to dealing with literally the hundreds of people (maybe thousands, if we are talking about the Miami Book Fair) who show up for signings. This reminds me of an event in my college days. I had snuck backstage for a Steve Miller concert. I found a piece of cardboard on a door that said "Steve Miller Tuning" - which obviously meant he was in there tuning up for the show. I grabbed the piece of cardboard (it wasn't encrusted in jewels or anything) and found him meandering around. I asked him to sign it and he got so ****ed off. I can understand it to a point, but it was a piece of cardboard for Christ's sake. Interestingly enough, Boz Scaggs happened to see this whole thing go down and after Miller got done ranting, he came over. I felt pretty bad about the whole thing, but I recognized him and asked him if he wouldn't mind signing something for me as I'd been a fan of his as well. Obviously, I was short on things to sign, Miller had taken back his sign - so Scaggs took out a dollar bill out of his wallet and signed "A felony for you" - as he joked about it being a felony to mark up currency. He was so cool about the whole thing and it was pretty obvious he thought Steve Miller might have overreacted a bit. Ah well, maybe Miller was just having a bad day. And in retrospect I shouldn't have taken down his sign - that was wrong. It's interesting how the celebs react so differently to these kinds of things, though. I *did* go home and smash all my Steve Miller albums after the show, though. wink j/k On Thu, 06 Jul 2006 08:24:13 -0400, LiRM wrote: I grew up on Long Island, and have been living in South Florida for over 20 years now, so events like the one you described are few and far between. |
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