I've only been to two book signings and the first one changed my life forever for the better.
I found out he was coming to Borders in Stonestown about a week before the actual event. Julie proclaimed me official spokesperson. I was a wreck. I wracked my brain for clever ways to bring up the show without seeming like a crazy woman. I gave up trying. I decided it was all or nothing. The evening approached. Julie had made a set of dvds. I had my ancient tattered copy of "Lord Foul's Bane" which my Dad had given me as a teenager. The cover was almost completely torn off, the pages yellowed and well worn. I thought I had everything covered. We arrived at Borders and I purchased a copy of ROTE. He gave a delightful reading and question and answer session. Afterwards everyone lined up to get their books signed. We tried to hang back in the line and ended up with only two guys with armloads of books behind us. The wait gave me more and more time to get more and more nervous as we approached. I was first with Julie behind me, then Tadhg and Steve and Karen followed. Terry was to film it all with her tiny secret camera. We were given yellow sticky notes to write anything we wanted personalized in the signing. I wrote that I wanted him to sign my copy of LFB to "Cameraman Jenn." It was finally my turn. I handed him my tattered book with the note in it.
He looked at me a bit oddly and said, "I assume there is a story behind this."
I smiled and said, "Of course, this is the copy of LFB that my Dad gave me as a teenager and so therefore it has great personal meaning. We heard a rumor that you might have heard about us. I am Cameraman Jenn from The Fantasy Bedtime Hour and we do a parody show that is solely dedicated to "Lord Foul's Bane."
He slumped back and I think he may have blushed a bit and smiled sheepishly and said, "Yes, I have heard about you but I confess that I haven't seen the show."
I said, "We heard another rumor that you aren't all that internet friendly so we brought you some dvds of the show, in case you want to see it."
He smiled, again sheepishly, and thanked me. I told him that I wanted him to know that we love doing the show and that we hope that he found us funny and that I wanted him to know that we make the show out of love for his book. Julie piped in with the line that I had been meaning to say and that she memorized from my forty seventh time of making her listen to my introduction speech.
"Parody is the highest form of flattery, Celebrity fame isn't complete until they have been parodied such as on Saturday Night Live." Julie quoted from my original speech.
I introduced the group and when I introduced Steve and said that he is our Thomas Covenant, Steve looked him up and down and said, "You are much better looking than I ever pictured Thomas Covenant to be." We all laughed.
As he signed books and made small talk I breathed deep and gathered my courage. "We have a dream, that you would come on the show as the guest expert for the final episode."
"Oh, well, I think something could probably be arranged." he responded. I couldn't believe it. I thought I was going to have to beg and plead.
A woman that was hovering in the background of the whole signing leaned forward towards Steve and piped in something about making sure there were no copyright infringements or some such stuff. He smiled at her and looked back at me and said, "I am sure we can work something out. Is your contact information in here?" he asked, gesturing towards the dvd stack.
"Oh CRAP!" I blurted out, "I knew I forgot something." He smiled and handed me a post it and a pen. My hands were shaking so hard over him saying yes that I am frankly shocked that he could even read the information. We thanked him again. He thanked us for coming. We left and once outside of the front door proceeded to melt down into a squealing and screaming celebration that I am sure he must have been able to hear, complete with Julie smacking me with glee so hard that she bruised me.
About a week later we got what I then thought was the most wonderful surprise ever, an email from SRD saying that he loved the show so much he was bringing the dvds with him on the European branch of his tour in order to keep himself sane. The rest is history. That two hour booksigning changed my life forever for the better. Go to book signings people!
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