How the signing looked

[pameladean]

Here's a URL for the photos David took:

http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/2003/11140-Pamela's%20Signing/

Things went pretty well, thanks largely to the presence amongst attendees of several people who asked good questions. I hadn't realized I might be expected to make a presentation. I really enjoyed talking to everyone.

Pamela

Comments

[davidgoldfarb.livejournal.com]

Er, you have the "" in your hyperlink in the wrong place; it should come after the last /, but you have it after the end of "Pamela". This breaks the link.

I'm glad to hear things went well.

[davidgoldfarb.livejournal.com]

Bother; it erased the important bit there: I mean the /a thing between angle brackets.

[kyrielle]

I think that's not one she wrote. If you just type a URL into a post, LiveJournal automatically makes it a link. So it may just not get the %20 right if that is how the link was created.

[pameladean]

Sorry about the broken link. I am probably not competent to fix it.

Pamela

[darcydodo]

There're so many textures in that room! And the camera caught them all. Wow.

[pameladean]

*smug* Isn't he good? *smug*

(He says the camera's good too.)

Pamela

Re: How the signing looked

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

glad it wasn't overwhelming! i'd just be petrified if i had to do stuff like that.

nice age spread among the attendees. that's a neat-looking store (never been there). and i really like the picture of you looking down onto what you are signing at the time.

LJ's parser is lame; it screws up URLs with special characters -- you can prevent that in a number of ways that mostly require a little html programming knowledge, so i won't go into it here. or you could delegate, and go to tinyurl, plug your URL into their form, and copy the output here, which has the main purpose of shrinking huge URLs down, but their algorithm also comes out with stuff LJ likes.

or ask your friendly household photographer not to create paths like that. :) which might make him curse LJ out -- well, yeah.

Re: How the signing looked

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

I'm glad the signing went well. It looked like a relaxed and friendly gathering from the pictures. A nice venue with comfy chairs too!

The problem with the link was that there was a space in the filename. This gets replaced by a bunch of symbols and numbers in Windows, but not all browsers and operating systems treat a space the same way, hence the confusion. The easiest way round the problem is to avoid using spaces and to keep filenames short. Ahem... I'll just take my IT tutor's hat off now and sidle quietly out of the door.

Re: How the signing looked

[pameladean]

I'm fairly petrified, but I've gotten used to it. I think it helped a lot that most of my first experiences of this sort were done as part of a group; the Scribblies used to be treated as a unit, like quintuplets or something.

The age spread was the result of my mother's having gathered up two of her friends and marched them along. (They all enjoyed themselves a lot.)

My mom's the one in the yellow sweater.

Thanks for the tips about the URL. My photographer often uses makeashorterlink, but for whatever reason, this time he didn't.

Pamela

[lcohen]

you have wonderful expressions in so many of these. and absolutely gorgeous hair!

that looks like a really nice bookstore, too. not that there are too many bookstores that i don't like.....

what did you wind up discussing?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

"Achilles." How much characters correspond to real people. Why writers who like to quote things should make friends with John M. Ford. How nifty the covers for the re-release are....

Lotsa stuff.

[pameladean]

Hi! What a memory you have. Thanks.

Pamela

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Actually, I was just thinking, "Shoot, what *did* we talk about?" Because relaying stories about where your sweetie used to co-locate their servers or why other members of your household don't eat clams just didn't seem like what people wanted to know.

(That sounds like a euphemism to me. "You wouldn't believe where he co-locate our server, mmmmm...." See what being married to networking geeks does to one.)

[pameladean]

It's the drugs. No, really, the hair is because of the antihypertensives. All my life I've had very thin hair that wouldn't grow. (It was always red, that part's normal.) But a few months after I went on the doxazosin, my hair went nuts. Not exactly an incentive to get completely off the darn things.

I didn't realize until I was signing books at the end that most of my diehard fans there had not read them. They had battered copies of TAM LIN, so mostly that's what they asked about. How autobiographical was it, how easy it was not to notice when it was set, was there an actual model for Medeous, stuff like that.

Pamela

[sdn.livejournal.com]

was "your" sales rep there?

i am so glad it went well!

[pameladean]

My sales rep was not there unless he was well disguised.

It's a great bookstore, though. It has quotations on the carpet.

Pamela

[noveldevice.livejournal.com]

Wow, very cool. You really do have astonishingly lovely hair.

Were you still interested in that paper on the parallels between Tam Lin and the Proteus scene in the Odyssey, using your Tam Lin and Diana Wynne Jones' Fire and Hemlock? I'm slowly coming to the realization that I'm never going to have time to do what I want to do to it. :/

[pameladean]

Thanks. It's the drugs, but I am happy to take the credit.

I'm interested in whatever you want to show me, absolutely. I'm sorry about the inability to bring it all to fruition. I've got a lot of projects like that. But you know, since I don't know what you had in mind, I might not notice it wasn't all you hoped for.

Pamela

[thomasyan.livejournal.com]

I'm glad it went well. Thanks for explaining the age spread; I had been wondering about that.

That reminds me, I still haven't posted my rant about Waldenbooks. I did eventually buy my copies of the reprints, but Waldenbooks made it harder than it should have been. Idiots.

I've also been looking for them whenever I visit a bookstore. It's been interesting to see if it shows up in SF or only in young adult. Unfortunately, I haven't been keeping track, and I don't think there was a pattern based on the chain. I think one Waldenbooks had it only in YA and another had it in only SF or both SF and YA (I don't think I checked YA after spotting it in SF). I was happy to see lots of Firebird Books logos visible in the SF section at that Waldenbooks. I marveled at how large _The Kin_ by Dickinson was. And at that or another bookstore, I was briefly boggled at how god damn fucking huge a book was, until I realized it had been turned so that the cover was facing me: That was *not* the spine! I laughed aloud at myself :)