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Interview #580: Paris Signing Report - Jonathan B, Entry #1
Jonathan B
OK, here goes… If anyone else has pictures from the signing, please post them also. Thanks to Cuthbert 19 for sending me his pictures.
In case the pictures get deleted from imagehost, I also put them up on a Dragonmount gallery here:
http://www.dragonmount.com/forums/ga...igning-photos/
Signing Report Paris—Major spoiler warnings
The signing was a great event with over 100 people present. Brandon was very happy with it. The bookstore people were very nice and had bought some drinks for everyone.
Brandon’s wife Emily sent me an email when they got to Paris and they met me in a café beforehand as a thank you for helping set up the book signing. Brandon signed my books and drew a dead Narg for me because I told him that I am on Theoryland and Dragonmount and he had done things like this for other Theorylanders (See Terez’s dead Asmodean drawing).
Then we went over to the bookstore.
Here’s a picture of the store window with lots of WOT books:
…and the posters they put up:
Brandon began by reading Lan’s part of the prologue with great enthusiasm:
Then came the questions & answers session (see detailed description below, videos are also coming).
I met up with Cuthbert and we also talked with some other enthusiastic fans met at the signing, one of which I convinced to buy The Way of Kings . During the line, we read Julien’s list of questions deciding which one or two he should ask if Brandon only had time to answer one and speculated about what the answers might be.
Here’s a picture of us with the list of questions:
We intentionally placed ourselves at the very back of the line because both Cuthbert and Julien had a very big sack of books, and this gave us more time to talk about our questions and hang out near the diet coke . It took about 2 hours to get through the line, which was fine with us!
Here’s a picture of people in line (near the end):
… and Brandon signing books:
When we got to the front of the line, we asked our questions and Cuthbert identified himself as the guy who (almost) found the Venice clue during the great hunt (it was lost, but Brandon sent him a copy of it + another code) who flew to Paris just for the signing. There’s a great picture of them at the signing table with the clues:
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Afterwards, the bookstore was planning to take Brandon and mily to dinner but as only one person from the bookstore was coming, Brandon invited Federico, Julien, 2 other fans and I who had waited at the back of the line to come along too which was a very fun experience and we got to ask more questions (yay).
Brandon and Emily opening magic cards from Federico:
The rare card in Brandon’s pack (I think this is the one he had Federico sign):
Group picture at dinner:
Please note that here were some topics that Brandon talked about at the signing and also later, so I may have put some things he said later into the description of his answer to the question at the signing to have everything on the same theme in one spot.
This was a really great time and I want to thank Brandon, Emily, the bookstore and everyone who came! For those who were there, let us know who you were and if you remember anything I didn’t mention here or got a question in line that I didn’t hear.
Signing Q&A Video 1:
Sorry about the shaky beginning, it gets better after about a minute:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY8DNS9q_6U
Signing Q&A Video 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f8HUMHHDhY
Video 3 and final:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSOzUje84ac
Signing Q&A summary:
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