Book Signing Etiquette Question

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[QUOTE=EddyTeddyFreddy]
You can also go direct to the source, at least with some authors. I have a hardbound copy of “The Past Through Tomorrow” signed, with a short note, by Robert Heinlein. I’d written to him a fan letter with an inquiry whether he’d be willing to autograph a book for me. He graciously replied yes, I mailed it to him (with stamped return envelope), and he did it.

Unless the author is the shy and retiring type, you should be able to get a mailing address from their publisher.
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Seconded. Mr. S and I sent an admiring letter to an author along with a copy of her book and a stamped return envelope, and a few weeks later got our book back with a lovely whimsical inscription and a very sweet and charming letter that is now framed and hanging in our living room, over the inscribed book on its special easel. :smiley:

We sent it in care of her agent. You’re a lovely lady, Jean Merrill!

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As they sign, be sure to say “Wow, as soon as you’re dead, that sucker’s goin’ right on eBay.”

They love that sort of thing.

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[QUOTE=kittenblue]
This is being held at a Joseph-Beth in the ritzy “lifestyle center” on the east side of town. I really can’t afford to buy a book right now, though I would like to go and hear her speak, if she’s going to give a short talk or do a Q & A session like Earlene Fowler did.
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When I went to the pTerry signing at the San Jose B&N, they were supposed to have a Q&A, but it was so crowded he only signed. I bought the book (Monstrous Regiment) not having gotten it yet, but it didn’t seem to be required.

Cons are a good place to get autographs. I got Isaac Asimov to sign a Galaxy with “The Martian Way” in it, with his name spelled wrong. He was still pissed at Horace Gold.