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semperfionaYesterday afternoon, just before I would have left work, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jilly_bear sent me an email telling me that Jim Butcher would be appearing that night! at a B&N in St. Peters. In less than an hour, we had arranged to go and drag along some friends. (Rivendell Gang, Scott, Becky & Woof)
It rocked. He answered questions for about 45-50 minutes--he tells good stories (Has your German Shepherd ever saved your child from a bear? My Bichon Frise has!)--and then signed a big bunch of books. Chris got his wizard staff signed.
I was so proud of myself! I had a topic of conversation in mind for when I arrived at his table and I actually remembered it! (Amber. He mentions Zelazny and Amber in the author's note at the end of White Night. So I asked about it and he's played both AmberMUSH (now defunct) and the ADRPG--he told me it got him an in witharcaedia his agent, and I said, oh yeah, I know her too. From Ambercons.)
A few more tidbits. I asked, during the Q&A, when we'd find out what happens to Fidelacchius. He said he intends to put that in the next book, which has the working title "Small Favors". (But he had also mentioned previously how books sometimes get away from the author.) And he told someone who asked that he had never been to Chicago until about two books ago. It's all research and local informants, and making stuff up. The reason the books are set in Chicago is this: He had wanted to put them in Kansas City, but Laurell Hamilton had just recently gained attention and the powers that be felt two books of similar genre both set in Missouri was too much. So he looked at a globe in his writing teacher's office, and there were three cities marked on the US. New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. "When you don't know the answer on a multiple choice test, always choose B."
We went out to eat afterwards at Waffle House (last of the big spenders, us...but with Chris out of work it's about our limit). Rosa and I got up after eating and spontaneously danced in the aisle for a few minutes. She said today that it was the best thing about yesterday. *big mommy smile*
jilly_bear sent me an email telling me that Jim Butcher would be appearing that night! at a B&N in St. Peters. In less than an hour, we had arranged to go and drag along some friends. (Rivendell Gang, Scott, Becky & Woof) It rocked. He answered questions for about 45-50 minutes--he tells good stories (Has your German Shepherd ever saved your child from a bear? My Bichon Frise has!)--and then signed a big bunch of books. Chris got his wizard staff signed.
I was so proud of myself! I had a topic of conversation in mind for when I arrived at his table and I actually remembered it! (Amber. He mentions Zelazny and Amber in the author's note at the end of White Night. So I asked about it and he's played both AmberMUSH (now defunct) and the ADRPG--he told me it got him an in with
arcaedia his agent, and I said, oh yeah, I know her too. From Ambercons.)A few more tidbits. I asked, during the Q&A, when we'd find out what happens to Fidelacchius. He said he intends to put that in the next book, which has the working title "Small Favors". (But he had also mentioned previously how books sometimes get away from the author.) And he told someone who asked that he had never been to Chicago until about two books ago. It's all research and local informants, and making stuff up. The reason the books are set in Chicago is this: He had wanted to put them in Kansas City, but Laurell Hamilton had just recently gained attention and the powers that be felt two books of similar genre both set in Missouri was too much. So he looked at a globe in his writing teacher's office, and there were three cities marked on the US. New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. "When you don't know the answer on a multiple choice test, always choose B."
We went out to eat afterwards at Waffle House (last of the big spenders, us...but with Chris out of work it's about our limit). Rosa and I got up after eating and spontaneously danced in the aisle for a few minutes. She said today that it was the best thing about yesterday. *big mommy smile*
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Date: 2007-04-11 11:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-12 03:59 am (UTC)Something else JB talked about last night. Apparently it's extremely difficult, and expensive, to film actors in a VW Beetle. So they thought hard about what kind of vehicle would be easier to film but have the same indestructible aura...and came up with "Korean War era Jeep".
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Date: 2007-04-12 01:42 am (UTC)What I really should have asked was who was his writing teacher, and where can I take that class. :-)
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Date: 2007-04-12 03:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-12 12:08 pm (UTC)I guess I had forgot about the Warden swords or it just wasn't emphasised in earlier books - that was really the first I had thought about Harry not getting one. Not that he really has missed it! :)
Ok, now I am awaiting the next Codex Alera book....
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Date: 2007-04-12 12:47 pm (UTC)No, although I should. Link me?
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Date: 2007-04-12 06:06 pm (UTC)