The creatures that ate Hackensack

[pbray]

Well that's a lie. We left it more or less intact.

Yesterday's signing at the Barnes & Noble in Hackensack went well-- S.C. Butler scbutler, Barbara Campbell and Daryl Gregory are all great fun to hang out, as is brain-friend Joshua Palmatier jpsorrow.

Jill Fisch, the CRM, was very helpful, and didn't mind when we rearranged her store in order to make our selves and our books more visible. The store staff got into the spirit of the event, requisitioning their own souvenir lizards. The only glitch was the store's inability to get copies of some books :-( but fortunately we'd been alerted ahead of time so those authors brought their own copies to supplement the store stock.

Phil De Parto from the Bergen County Science Fiction Association helped coordinate the signing, and proved to be a wonderful shill as he directed incoming customers to meet the captive authors on display for one afternoon only.

After the signing, the five of us, plus Daryl's wife Kathy went out for drinks/dinner and then the drive home. Drive was uneventful, but long day as I got home twelve hours after I'd left.

And here we are from left to right, Joshua Palmatier, Patricia Bray, Barbara Campbell, S.C. Butler, and Daryl Gregory. Note that this was Barbara's camera, which explains why she is under the "Using Your Brain" sign.

Comments

[antonstrout.livejournal.com]

Phil had me out talking to his group at the Borders last year. Good peeps, them!

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Very nice folks. He'd invited us to the club meeting later on Saturday night, but for those of us who had 3 or 4 hour drives home, it would have been just too long a day in January when there was no telling what the weather would be like. But I'm hoping to be able to get down to see them at a more temperate time of year.

[lagilman]

Hrm. Clearly I need to speak to this Phil....

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Emailed you his contact info.