Sounds fun and exhausting at the same time! Oh, and did he personalize or line the books?
Sounds fun and exhausting at the same time! Oh, and did he personalize or line the books?
Wanted: Human skin edition of The Book of the Dead. Will accept PC copy.
I wish he was coming somewhere near me.
Btw, I finished Armada last night and I really enjoyed it.
And anyone who says that it's a rip off of the Last Starfighter or Ender's Game either hasn't bothered reading it or just plain doesn't get it. It's much more of an homage.
And another interesting tidbit. Go look at the IMBD page for the Last Starfighter. Interesting close coincidence.
Good news: every book was signed
All books were personalized - for those that wanted. He was not much into lining the books - had to ask - and with 24 books a near impossible task to do. He usually wasn't dating them either - I had to ask each time - and some made it through before I could ask.
You might see an odd inscription in your book - MTFBWYA! - I noticed it last night but did not pay much attention - then I saw it in most when I was going through the books. It took me about 5 seconds to figure out what it was - hint - it is from his favorite movie
Totally agree - I am on chapter 5 and will finish it later today. But he loved Last Starfighter and spoke about that. Showed all of the movies that influenced him. If anything he said that his book was a rip-off of Iron EagleOriginally Posted by Booknutt
Sounds like you had a good time and got most everything you wanted signed !
Slightly more books than what I started the day with
and a quick plug for Keplers - apparently if you buy enough books they throw in a big arse tote
And a few of Ernie up on the small stage - he is really a fan - and I think still amazed that he gets to hang out with people he had only dreamed of meeting - very down to earth. Showed a bunch of pics of him with GRRM, a halloween party at Seth Green's place, various people in his ECTO 88 delorean...
His favorite movie - might help with that line from above:
tough pic to take off of projector - but that is GRRM as Marty McFly on the Delorean
And the reason for the signing:
The DJ is pretty cool too:
some swag:
they handed out the earth defense patches to the first few people in line - probably had about 40 of them to hand out and there were over 200 people at the event.
the only game cartridges I was able to get signed:
And now for my books: the hebrew version with the MTFBWYA! tag
and importance of being ernest
The no 6-er doodle randomly showed up amongst the books
My ARC:
which happened to have the letter sent to store owners still tucked in:
of course I forgot to pull this out and get him to sign it - oh well
And if you were not quite sure that I was really there:
This one is for my niece (a sophomore at PSU - who loved my library at her visit here last month) - and fortunately I talked to her about RPO and she said she loved it - and I mentioned I would see him in a few weeks...after reading the book she had to go out and watch War Games - so I asked for this for her:
I think that is awesome - now I enjoyed War Games - but I was a much bigger fan of Douglas Adams and the Hitchhikers guide - so I asked for something along that line in my 1/1 RPO:
So to me - this one means more - but the war games line is pretty awesome (plus he added one of the no 6-ers in there
And lastly - my copy of Armada:
living just outside Napa/Sonoma - I loved this line and was happy he added it in when I asked - it occurs early on in the book - "In Wine there is Truth"
Okay - I am done for now, got a lot of books to pack up and ship out today, a book to read too. It was a really fun night - I hope that you all enjoy your books when they arrive to you.
Wonderful... looking forward to may parcel... Will it arrive tomorrow ^^;-)
I don't think you want to know how much it will cost to get there tomorrow...although as far as I remember when I ship UPS (I use them over USPS for overseas) it actually gets there in 2-3 days (or less than a week)
Wow, looks like it was a great event. Thanks for posting all the pictures.
Chad - that's amazing ! Thanks for sharing and looks like you had great time. Love the inscriptions!!
Looks like there is some demand to the Hebrew version - I'm in Israel now (coming back Sunday) and can get some copies. Pm me if you're interested
It was a lot of fun. And a very long day. I got there around 3 or so. Was in line early to get a seat. And then for the signing - those that were in first got to go through the signing line first. So I could have been out of there in about 25 minutes - but instead I waited until the end. Maybe that is one thing to pass on - and maybe that is just me. If I was in line behind someone that had 25 books to sign - I might feel a bit annoyed, plus if I went early in line with that many books - it would have gone too quickly - and I figured the only way I could get a few lined was to wait until the very end (and I have a lot of patience). Also the Keplers staff were appreciative that I waited until the end with all of my books - so it really worked out well. I guess that is my biggest signing tip - have patience and enjoy the whole event. I was in no rush and enjoyed talking to the young kid next to me in line. He just happened to read about the event a few days ago and thought it would be interesting - and picked up RPO that day and started reading it - it was a lot of fun. I got everything out of the event that I wanted (and there was no one else from here that was there to start any finders keepers back n forth as to my actions...jk -)
Has anyone purchased the kindle version of Armada? I am most interested in the audio version (to hear Wil Wheaton again - my wife enjoyed him reading RPO) - but amazon usually discounts the audio version after you buy the kindle book. So far I had not seen any discounts to add the audio version yet (maybe book is too new?). However the Martian was on sale for kindle for about $5.99 and you could add the audio book for another $3.99 - so I was hoping for that kind of deal. So if anyone has purchased and can confirm that would be great. I think i might just have to wait for this one to come up though.
These just arrived. Not from the signings, but was something I arranged through a mutual friend. Thank you Ernest for signing these! Still waiting on the signed trade of Armada. More pictures in my collection thread.
1st Trade of RPO.
This is a rare state of the Armada proof, with the black spine. More like a bound manuscript.
Very cool - so is Ernest your mutual friend? Or did you just send them directly for him to sign?
And Ernie mentioned possibly plans for trilogy of both books - i know, i hate the trilogy thing - but he stated the movies plan these things out - and want to expand the series - and if you do not write the next book - they will still make the next movie. Sounds kind of game of thrones HBO/ish - kind of sucks for the writers though.
They did that with JP The Lost World. They convinced Crichton to write the book and then used almost nothing from the story.
Thanks. Basically, a friend of mine who I've known for over 15 years is also a friend of Ernest's. So I sent them to my friend and he was kind enough to get them signed for me. Interestingly, I also discovered we had another connection. In the late 90s/early 2000's, Ernest and I were both on slam teams from different cities, competing at the nationals. But I never met him back then. Another coincidence was that the press that published his early spoken word poetry, was the same one that had published a book of my poetry. Of course, Ernest ended up becoming famous and I didn't!
Nothing worse than a rushed book - unless you are waiting for GRRM...
Oh I just got my B&N signed Armada today - I would post but it is nothing special. No tipped in page, just signed on front sheet - and actually you would hardly know he signed it. Nothing like the sigs from last night. It looks like his initials. Oh well - that will be the copy I read and then send over to my dad to read. Plus they put and extra bar code sticker on the back over the one on the DJ
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