Ever heard George R.R. Martin's story about a signing in the 1990s in the St. Louis area?
Larry Send a noteboard - 14/12/2010 01:18:04 AM
I went to Borders this past weekend and they had a table set up for some author. I walked by several times and the guy looked really bored. He was idly tapping the table and the woman next to him looked utterly miserable. I didn't see one person walk up to them. But it really doesn't help when your book is about leadership and hiring. I humored the guy though.
Have you ever felt sorry for an author at a book signing?
Have you ever felt sorry for an author at a book signing?
When I attended his November 2005 signing in Nashville, he told this story how he was at this convention in the St. Louis area sometime around the release of the first SOIAF book (I believe). Due to someone "big" also signing in the area (I can't remember if it was Bradbury or Vance, but someone at the same convention was signing that night in the general area), he had his signing set up in a smallish store.
There were four people present. When they announced that it was time for his book signing to begin, two people promptly left. He claims that he must be one of the few authors who have ever driven readers away from a signing. Funny how far some have gone since then, no?
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie
Je suis méchant.
Je suis méchant.
Has anybody ever felt sorry for these authors at book signings?
- 13/12/2010 09:59:18 PM
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None of the bookstores I've been in have ever had a signing when I've been around. *NM*
- 13/12/2010 11:54:32 PM
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The author was there and no one showed up?
- 14/12/2010 12:13:06 AM
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Excellent Kevin J. Anderson story.
- 14/12/2010 10:26:32 AM
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That's awesome.
- 14/12/2010 03:06:54 PM
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Ever heard George R.R. Martin's story about a signing in the 1990s in the St. Louis area?
- 14/12/2010 01:18:04 AM
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My wife was at a bookstore where several signings were going on at once.
- 14/12/2010 03:51:39 PM
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