lee_rowan ([info]lee_rowan) wrote,
@ 2009-09-27 09:21:00
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Word on the Street---Kitchener-Waterloo Book Fair
I'll have a booth in the "Writers Block" at the KW version of the annual Canadian book fair, Word on the Street. If you're anywhere near Victoria Park between 11 pm and 6 pm, dew drop inn... I'll have Alex Beecroft's Captain's Surrender and Erastes Frost Fair (and one, count it, one copy of Standish.) And EL van Hine's Erotic Etudes, and a table copy of two of Charlie Cochrane's "Lessons In" books and Emma Collingwood's ghost story, and.. whatever else I've packed but don't recall.

Hope to see you there!


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[info]storm_grant
2009-09-27 01:32 pm UTC (link)
I had a lot of fun on Pride selling books (well, not so much in the rain on Sunday). I'm off to Toronto's book fair.

Have fun! Is it raining where you are, too?

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[info]lee_rowan
2009-09-28 03:36 am UTC (link)
It was cloudy, chilly, and breezy, but some sunshine, too. Not much in the way of sales--a few folks were very startled and I had to keep shooing kids away. I did put small "adult material" stickers on the table edges in bright pink to warn parents.

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[info]alex_beecroft
2009-09-27 03:51 pm UTC (link)
Lots of luck! I hope it turns out to be a surprisingly fun afternoon :)

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[info]lee_rowan
2009-09-28 03:46 am UTC (link)
It was, but not in the way you'd expect. Mine was the only glbt booth, and while some folks were quite pleasant (including the team I wound up sharing a booth with, whose business is no longer (apparently) called "Vanity Press," but "we-help-authors-self-publish-their-books) the occasional passing phobes were kind of funny. Watching the faces curdle when they saw that kiss on Walking Wounded...

And I actually had someone ask, "How long does it take to write a book?" I always thought that was a joke....

NO sales. But quite a few Mac sample-chapter disks, and I recc'd the hell out of False Colors to an older gent who mentioned there being 'some mention of that' in Patrick O'Brian... I had my copy of FC and Trans along for people to look at, but didn't want to sell 'em secondhand.

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[info]alex_beecroft
2009-09-28 10:25 am UTC (link)
LOL! to the name change on vanity publishing, but I'm glad they were friendly, and that all the 'phobes did was to run away fast :) Hee! And thanks for the rec. I have to say the only grievance I ever had with O'Brian was that he never told us what happened to Mr. Marshall. I waited the entire series for him to make a re-appearance and was sadly disappointed.

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[info]charliecochrane
2009-09-29 11:16 am UTC (link)
Hear hear. I love Marshall. John Barrowman would be a natural for him.

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[info]alex_beecroft
2009-09-29 08:01 pm UTC (link)
Oh, he would too. Though would John Barrowman be happy with being cast as a 'good looking middle aged man', do you think, or is he going for 'ageless'?

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[info]mylodon
2009-09-29 08:05 pm UTC (link)
We'll tell him that 'middle aged' in those days meant 35. :)

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[info]lee_rowan
2009-09-29 08:59 pm UTC (link)
And in those days 40 was just a little way over the hill....

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[info]spindriftdancer
2009-09-27 09:05 pm UTC (link)
Oh, Damn. I missed it again. I don't think I can get down there in time, now...

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[info]lee_rowan
2009-09-28 03:34 am UTC (link)
It was pretty slow... will do a bit of a report tomorrow.

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[info]spindriftdancer
2009-09-28 06:17 pm UTC (link)
That's too bad! Were you in an out-of-the-way place, or was the whole day like that for everyone?

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[info]lee_rowan
2009-09-28 09:18 pm UTC (link)
I was the ONLY table with GLBT books. And Kitchener isn't Toronto.

Then again, some people did stop by, one woman took a bunch of the Gay Wiki flyers... and who knows? The year I took electronics in high school, I was the only girl in the class and the first who had ever taken it. Next term there were three, one in the advanced class--she'd learned a lot from her dad, but didn't know girls were allowed. Maybe next year I can share a booth with the Out on the Shelf glbt library in Guelph...?

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[info]spindriftdancer
2009-09-28 10:07 pm UTC (link)
That's a fantastic idea(:

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[info]upstart_crow
2009-09-28 04:57 am UTC (link)
Hi, saw you at RM's post and just added you so I can keep track of announcements related to I Do 2. I hope that's OK after reading about the problems you've had on your journal on your info page. It's nice to meet you as well.

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[info]lee_rowan
2009-09-28 02:56 pm UTC (link)
Hi! This is what serves as my blog, so the more the merrier; please don't take it wrong if I don't friend back, because I could spend all day on LJ and that would mean no more stories.

What do you write?

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[info]upstart_crow
2009-09-28 04:58 am UTC (link)
Oh and to actually be on topic, I wish I could come to the book fair! We have one in Utah as well, but I'm a little disenchanted with it at the moment.

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[info]charliecochrane
2009-09-28 10:12 am UTC (link)
Hope it was a beezer day.

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[info]lee_rowan
2009-09-28 09:19 pm UTC (link)
I don't know about beezers, but there was a gent on a bicycle with 3 cockatiels and a green-cheeked conure. 2 on his shoulders, 2 in his dreads, all very sociable.

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[info]charliecochrane
2009-09-29 11:17 am UTC (link)
He sounds like my kind of a guy.

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[info]louisev
2009-09-29 11:07 pm UTC (link)
thank you for going out there and flogging for us - sometimes in small crowds it's hard to get anyone to actually "be seen to be buying", but it is good to be seen anyway.

I hope you will accept my offer and take one of mine as a gift for your efforts! I'll be glad to send along an autograph bookplate so you can say you had an autograph bookplate on a first edition! (I just got my unsigned original bookplates back from England where they were in storage for the past two years!

Cheers and again many thanks!

Louise

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