Scalzified
Sep. 4th, 2014 10:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
calimacI read John Scalzi's blog, I've read a couple of his novels, why not go to his reading session at Books Inc. in Mtn View, since he was coming all this way anyway? So I did; large crowd but I stood over at the side, where the books are, and browsed shelves while waiting for the event to start. He read us a chapter from the novel-in-progress, about which I don't think I'm supposed to say anything,* and some amusing pieces from his past writing-humor-for-AOL career. Then he took questions, giving a long involved answer to one about his policy of only attending conventions with full policies on harassment.
As the event moved into book-signing mode, I ran into friends with a clever plan. They would duck out and have dinner, and come back later when the line had drifted down. I'd already eaten, but I accompanied them and nibbled a bit. We went to an Indian restaurant called Shazam. That can't be right.
When we came back, however, the signing line was still long. Popular guy.
*Though I will say that Scalzi's penchant for writing amusingly snarky dialogue continues unimpaired, even when the characters are the last sort of people you'd expect to hear talk that way.
As the event moved into book-signing mode, I ran into friends with a clever plan. They would duck out and have dinner, and come back later when the line had drifted down. I'd already eaten, but I accompanied them and nibbled a bit. We went to an Indian restaurant called Shazam. That can't be right.
When we came back, however, the signing line was still long. Popular guy.
*Though I will say that Scalzi's penchant for writing amusingly snarky dialogue continues unimpaired, even when the characters are the last sort of people you'd expect to hear talk that way.
