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April 8: Changes signing in Portland, OR
« on: February 01, 2010, 06:54:07 PM »
4/8/2010, 7:00PM

POWELL'S BOOKS/Cedar Hills Crossing
3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd
Beaverton, OR 97005

Reading and signing.
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Re: April 8: Changes signing in Portland, OR
« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2010, 08:48:32 PM »

Maybe I'll be able to catch the Jiminator this time around.  Glad it's Beaverton Powells, much more room to park :)
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Re: April 8: Changes signing in Portland, OR
« Reply #2 on: February 02, 2010, 02:31:54 PM »
Awesome, I missed Jim last year and my insides died a little (I think it might have been a chunk of the spleen).
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Re: April 8: Changes signing in Portland, OR
« Reply #3 on: February 07, 2010, 09:21:35 PM »
Finally, Jim's coming to a place that I can get to within 2 hours. I'm so going if only to make my birthday 8 days later that much happier.

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Re: April 8: Changes signing in Portland, OR
« Reply #4 on: February 15, 2010, 05:42:51 AM »
Nice to know he's gonna be here.  It'd be nice to meet the man who just happens to be my favorite author.
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Re: April 8: Changes signing in Portland, OR
« Reply #5 on: February 27, 2010, 01:29:52 AM »
 :D  Hurray!  I can actually make it to this one!
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Re: April 8: Changes signing in Portland, OR
« Reply #6 on: April 07, 2010, 09:24:59 AM »
Oh, cool. Good thing I took a look at stuff that was going on. I can go to this after school on Thursday.
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Re: April 8: Changes signing in Portland, OR
« Reply #7 on: April 07, 2010, 07:27:41 PM »
Is there a limit on how many books we can get signed? I don't mean like, buy a couple dozen copies and get them signed, I mean like, bring some of my older Dresden books, and Codex books, and get them signed.

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Re: April 8: Changes signing in Portland, OR
« Reply #8 on: April 09, 2010, 05:16:53 AM »

Man it was packed!

He's probably still there signing. 

I will have video uploaded tonight, I'll post the link soon.


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Re: April 8: Changes signing in Portland, OR
« Reply #9 on: April 09, 2010, 06:26:55 AM »
It was still awesome, anyway!  ;D

Just be happy it wasn't at City of Books in Portland.
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Re: April 8: Changes signing in Portland, OR
« Reply #10 on: April 09, 2010, 07:36:36 AM »
Did you guys see that one girl who had him sign her arm? I think I heard her say something about a tattoo. But ya, I got there at like 5 and half of the chairs were already full. It was insane.

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Re: April 8: Changes signing in Portland, OR
« Reply #11 on: April 09, 2010, 07:43:24 PM »
Somebody's posted a montage pic and a commentary:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/52501219@N00/4505395165/

I especially liked the quotes:
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One of the titles Jim wanted for the first Dresden book (Storm Front): Abracadaver

"We haven't really run into anything that can kill Mister at this point" (Dresden's large-and-in-charge house cat)

He was thinking of ending the series "with a 3 book apocolyptic capstone... *duh dunduh*... with music by John Williams"

Responding to whether he hates Dresden, considering how hard he treats the poor guy: "I want him to succeed, and to do that he must have great pain"

"I don't have writer's block, I have a mortgage"

"The iPad typing thing doesn't work that well for lots of dialog"

Editor: "I want you expand these four subplots, and make it 50 pages shorter" Jim: "so you want the book bigger, but smaller?" Editor: "yes, and please hurry"

About writing parts of Changes: "Boom, boom... I felt like the special effects guy from Tropic Thunder"
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Re: April 8: Changes signing in Portland, OR
« Reply #13 on: April 09, 2010, 09:42:41 PM »
Listening now.  This is great!  Thanks so much, Hagbard Celine!


BWAHA, he finally read "Mistborn"!  My poking campaign worked! 

I went to a Brandon Sanderson signing back in November.  Brandon had just devoured and loved the first two Dresden books, so I asked him to sign a copy of "Mistborn" for Jim.  Brandon thought it was hilarious.  Glad to hear Jim enjoyed it!

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Re: April 8: Changes signing in Portland, OR
« Reply #14 on: April 09, 2010, 10:20:04 PM »
Somebody's posted a montage pic and a commentary:
Ah, gee, I was wondering why that image was getting so many views suddenly, thanks :)

Hagbard Celine: Excellent video! I'll have to watch it later and maybe I can revise my quote list... makes me feel almost silly for trying to short-hand a bunch while listening from the back ;)

Big crowd last night, people in the back were starting to get a bit grumpy as we tried to work out the shift forward method of making a "line". If it seemed I contributed to that at all, I apologize, I was dead tired and kind of a zombie, so probably not in my most polite mood. Wish I could have had the brain power to actually have an exchange with Jim, he seems like a great guy. I almost didn't make it cause I was on the verge of falling asleep at home, but I'm glad I did.
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