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Interview #929: AMOL Signing Report - DJ Stipe, Entry #3
DJ Stipe
From the start of the actual signing it was obvious Brandon knew what he was doing. He had specific jobs for a few of us, while telling the crowd there wouldn’t be a Q/A due to space limitations, but that he’d be glad to answer any questions anyone had while he signed their books. Several of the less common questions are included at the end of this writing, including a link to some spoiler questions that were asked. First though, some impressions we Memory Keepers were left with of the evening.
The crowd was impressive in both size and passion. There were many more costumes that came through, the first of which was a family of four dressed as Lan, Nynaeve and their two kids—a wolf sister and blade master. Brandon was very impressed and immediately jumped up to give them the cardboard poster of Way of Kings .
Some other costumes seen:
White Cloak/Aes Sedai/Red Band
Three Aes Sedai:
Tinkers:
Beyond the costumes there were fathers and sons, entire families, brothers and friends as well as many military personnel. Brandon and Harriet did signings only for everybody else their first time through, though they wrote “thank you for your service” in more than one service member’s book. As Harriet explained her father was in the Navy and she has a special place in her heart for the military.
It can’t be said enough how great these fans are. There was a pile of gifts for Brandon and Harriet by the end of the night and one fan—a leather worker whose name wasn’t given—actually gave Memory Keeper Mat an extra dice cup he’d made (since Mat was without one). It was very cool for us Memory Keepers to talk to so many people who were just as excited as we were to stand for hours on a Friday night and share in the experience of books, Wheel of Time and otherwise. Also amazing was how many people approached Brandon and said they hated reading until they’d picked up one of his books. In the age of cinema and TV, it’s a blessing to see such electricity generated in a book store.
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