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Interview #929: AMOL Signing Report - DJ Stipe, Entry #5
DJ Stipe
Brandon was the embodiment of humility. For each thank you he got for finishing the series, he gave a thank you in return to the fan for reading—and it was genuine thanks. He told several people they were his boss, so if they didn’t buy his books he wouldn’t be able to write them. He fist bumped one long time WOT fan saying that he was right there with him as a long-time fan himself. He has an avid fan base outside the Wheel of Time series, many had gotten into those books because of Brandon’s other works. There were also several writers given encouraging words (including at least one Memory Keeper)—he really does support those trying to learn the craft.
Beyond that, he’s just about as close as you can get to being a rock star and still play Magic the Gathering. He signed at least one deck box, one homemade Magic card and one of the Memory Keepers Fireball cards, making it a Bale-fireball. Memory Keeper Mat gave him a framed and signed “Hyrdroblast” #40 of 500 art print by the artist Kaja Foglio from the Magic the Gathering card game. Brandon was very excited that he knew artist but hadn’t seen that specific piece.
When Brandon left it felt to us Memory Keepers like saying goodbye to someone we’d known for some time, not a well-known author we’d just met a few hours before.
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