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Blog flog: http://blog.laurellkhamilton.org/2006/07/san-fransico-union-square-long-beach.html



Saw a lot of familiar faces, thanks to everyone who made both SF signings, Like every signing, we saw a lot of new faces, too. In fact we had a lot of people say it was their first signing ever. Welcome to the family.

AUGH. No, people who do not walk up to your desk and shove a book at you to sign are not family. They're fans. Learn the distinction, please.

Also, gotta love the Randomly Capitalized Word "Like" and the Comma that Wanted to be a Period.

Again, a lot of familiar faces, and brand new ones. Again, welcome. Though a couple of the fans were only new to the signing experience.

Way to contradict yourself there, Laurell!

They'd both discovered my books ten years ago when Anita was just coming out. They've both gone from junior high to being in their mid-twenties. very cool to think of being a part of someone's life for so long.

Ahh, the "very" that Wished It Was Capitalized. Also...okay. The AB:VH series is not new to me either...I got into the series in like my freshmen year of high school. I'm now a quarter of a century old and no longer in college (three years and no degree for Mule, sadface. :P). Yet if I walked up to her signing table and asked about the Narcissus forgetting he's psychic thing, do you think she'd think it "very cool" to have had her books be in my life that long?

And I'm sorta creeped that she sees longtime readers and having her be a "part of [their] life." CREEPY.

The event went well, but due to the crowd spilling out of the area where the mike was set up, we did an abbreviated question and answer, because a lot of the people in line were beyond the mike's abilities to reach.

It is a mic, not a mike. It is short for microphone, not mikerophone.

THIS IS A PUBLISHED AUTHOR, wtf.

I guess I've been pushing myself to get you and us out of the store early enough so we're not all exhausted.

Habbuh? Whuh? Buh? Does this woman make any sense, ever?

But I must say, thanks to all of you who have come out.

Come out...to or of what, Laurell? To your book signings? Out of the house? Out of the proverbial closet? What what with the what now?

PUBLISHED AUTHOR???

We've heard again and again this tour that my fans are some of the nicest most pleasant fans that the store employees have ever seen.

Yet we fans who don't OMGLOVE the books get labeled as "haters" or "bullies" or "jealous people." Makes me wish more than ever that I could go to a signing just to prove that, yes, WE CAN be articulate, intelligent, polite and respectful while still loathing her most recent literary abominations.

And you guys have been, patient and nice about it.

Comma abuse. Nothing new, really.

It's like she's taking dictation for Shatner.

I'd forgotten the effect a lot of coffee has on Jon. We gave it up along with soda when we changed our eating habits.

No wonder the NEW Anita never lusts for her coffee any more. e.e

Frankly I became a coffee addict (TIM HORTONS ONLY KTHNX) about the time that the word "coffee" dissappeared from the series. :P

Well see you guys tonight in San Diego.

Uhhh...that'd be great but a lot of us won't be there. :P Unless the blog now has the ability to teleport people who read it to her book signings.