{"id":4572,"date":"2012-08-23T16:00:19","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T21:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/?p=4572"},"modified":"2012-09-04T09:51:30","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T14:51:30","slug":"a-book-signing-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/2012\/08\/23\/a-book-signing-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"A Book Signing Warning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Years ago when I was doing a comic book with my wife, we had a brilliant idea: “Sign all orders!”<\/b><\/p>\n

Every book that sold through a distributor was signed before shipping. Looking back, we were lucky we only had to sign what probably totaled a little over 500 comic books.<\/p>\n

At the time, we thought the signing would never end. There’s no real point to this entry other than to share the videos below as a warning. Signing books is<\/em> a blast…but it can also be rather maddening. You’ve been warned!<\/p>\n

Sigler’s Piles<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Below — only 1\/4 of the way through signing his latest release<\/a> — Scott Sigler<\/a> is starting to get a little batty around the edges. Don’t believe me? He does a Silence of the Lambs<\/em> thing, and you can hear the “Oh my god, so many books! What have I done?!” behind that laugh at 2:02 into the video…<\/p>\n

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The Madness In His Stars<\/strong><\/h2>\n

John Green was even more <\/em>crazy when he agreed to sign all copies of the first printing of his book, The Fault in Our Stars<\/em>. It started out in a noble way…<\/p>\n

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Then it started affecting him…<\/p>\n

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Psychosis Settles In…<\/p>\n

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Finally, he finishes (See the first 40 seconds)…<\/p>\n

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The Moral?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The moral to these stories? Signing piles of books is much easier than it sounds.<\/p>\n

But still — what a problem to have…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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