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Jim's Dragon*Con 2013 Schedule
AndiSue:
@MetalFae - I'll probably see you at the Hour with Jim Butcher on Sunday. My name tag will say "Andi" and I'll be the plump redhead in a Dresden-themed tshirt with a big camera.
AndiSue:
Yeah, I'm pretty sure I'm going to make a complete fool out of myself. Oh well...at least I'll have fun and maybe get some nice pictures in the process!
Rasins:
Hey, get some pictures of the two of you together.
Fandom at it's best.
slayn:
--- Quote from: AndiSue on August 23, 2013, 09:13:18 PM ---Dragon*Con 2013 will be my first con ever and the main reason I decided this was the year to go is because Mr. Butcher will be there. As a con newbie, I have a couple questions about autograph sessions. I don't really have anything I need/want to have autographed...I'd really just like to say hi, express my fan-ness and maybe take a picture. Does Mr. Butcher allow photographs and, if so, is there any charge? Would it be better to do something like this at the autograph signing or is it better to stalk him at the panels?
Thanks in advance!
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This is probably going to come off as dickish, which isn't my intent, but please don't do this. If you wait in the signing line just to take a picture, you're stopping someone else from getting their books signed. The staff at Dragon*Con stick by their schedules like it's a religion; he has an hour per signing session and then he and everyone else are kicked out of the room for the next author (this will probably work a bit differently for the back-to-back sessions). There was at least five times the number of people in line as actually got in the room the last time he was at Dragon*Con, and even with multiple sessions, I expect the situation to be the same this year, if not worse.
The signing with The Missing Volume will help, but unless the new dealer rooms are substantially bigger than prior years, he'll actually get far fewer things signed during that hour because everything will be chaotic what with folks needing to pay for books (if they're purchasing from TMV) and all the other folks in the dealer room that are there to shop and don't particularly care that Jim's doing a signing. (On the flip side, the dealer rooms are apparently a block or two away from the host hotels this year, so that might cut down on the number of people wandering about.)
If nothing else, just have him sign your e-reader, convention badge, or program.
AndiSue:
@slayn - I'm just not the kind of person who keeps things - I'm not going to have him sign my badge or program just to toss it in the recycle bin.
Dresden Files is the only thing I have ever developed this sort of attachment to and I just want to shake the man's hand, if nothing else. It won't take any longer than signing two or three books for someone else and I'm willing to stand in line for however long it takes just to say hi. I guess I just don't understand why you think my 10 seconds to meet Mr. Butcher is somehow less important or less of a priority just because I don't want him to sign anything.
I 'm just going to stop here because the more I sit here and think about this, the more upset I get.
--- Quote from: slayn on August 27, 2013, 11:37:01 PM ---This is probably going to come off as dickish, which isn't my intent, but please don't do this. If you wait in the signing line just to take a picture, you're stopping someone else from getting their books signed. The staff at Dragon*Con stick by their schedules like it's a religion; he has an hour per signing session and then he and everyone else are kicked out of the room for the next author (this will probably work a bit differently for the back-to-back sessions). There was at least five times the number of people in line as actually got in the room the last time he was at Dragon*Con, and even with multiple sessions, I expect the situation to be the same this year, if not worse.
The signing with The Missing Volume will help, but unless the new dealer rooms are substantially bigger than prior years, he'll actually get far fewer things signed during that hour because everything will be chaotic what with folks needing to pay for books (if they're purchasing from TMV) and all the other folks in the dealer room that are there to shop and don't particularly care that Jim's doing a signing. (On the flip side, the dealer rooms are apparently a block or two away from the host hotels this year, so that might cut down on the number of people wandering about.)
If nothing else, just have him sign your e-reader, convention badge, or program.
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