| "We Fade To Grey" is launched |
[24 Sep 2008|10:17am] |
At FantasyCon, in Nottingham on Saturday (full report to follow), “We Fade To Grey” was launched, both in hardback and softcover. Both editions look wonderful, but this is my first hardcover so I’ll go with that version!
Anyway, we were all there (except that Paul Finch to had leave, as he had been double-booked with a panel), sat behind a desk whilst Chris Teague and Martin Roberts rustled up a crowd.
I’ve never been involved with a signing session and it was really good fun. Chris did his spiel, then handed over to Gary who talked about the genesis of the project (it was all because of me, apparently!). He gave the floor to Stuart, who said he’d ignored everything and didn’t write what he was supposed to, before it was my turn.
I love talking about my own work, but was fully aware that Simon still had to go and the crowd might get restless, so I kept it to a riff on what appears in the book as my story notes. Seemed to go down well though, which was nice.
Simon talked about his story and then the signing began in earnest, with most of the gathered throng seeming to buy a copy - we’d already signed the hardbacks, so it was paperbacks only (though one chap did get us to sign his newly purchased hardback). Nice comments about the cover art too.
The great thing was, Paul Finch came back from his panel and so we have another wave of people wanting signatures!
( Photo fun, behind here )
And you can buy the book here
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