So, irony–I spent ten consecutive days in all day meetings in Boston, and what are the things that are the important concrete results of the trip for me (as opposed to my employers)?
A signed book, and a signed CD.
Important persistent result number one, is this:
Amanda, as she apparently always does, stayed after the show to sign things. For the record, I did not “put on striped leggings and face paint on a weeknight”.
Persistent result number two, which I got through the agency of a friend in Boston who stood in line at a signing a while before the trip is this:
That will fit nicely with all the other signed Carroll hardcovers in my collection–his complete works, all inscribed to me, with the exception of Glass Soup. I got all the others signed back in 2002 when Carroll was the Guest of Honour at the World Fantasy Convention. Sadly I couldn’t figure out a way to get my copy of Glass Soup (which came out since 2002) signed, since I was never actually in the same town as Carroll, and I was already imposing fairly heavily to get the new book signed.
(Rick Kleffel has both an interview with Carroll and a review of the new book.)
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