About sixteen or seventeen people eventually showed up at the DFS, which lasted for a little more than an hour and a half and was quite vigorous. I believe that Ken Kofman is going to post a fuller report here. Let me only say that when Ken insisted that we take the Darkfriend Oath (from the Social in The Great Hunt ), Esther Harlow was the only person with the courage (?) to stand up and actually repeat it. Her unregenerate father, on the other hand, at the point where Ken had read “The Great Lord of the Dark is my master, and most heartily do I serve him…” piped in with “That’s not an oath, that’s a recipe!” (with thanks to Damon Knight for the inspiration).
My wife reports that the signing at Tower Books in Concord this afternoon was well attended. Regrettably, both my spies in Sacramento are doing other things this evening… My wife took pictures at Concord, and when she gets them developed, I’ll scan them in and post them, preferably at Ole’ Miss (Viren? You listening?)
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