On the “things I’m good at and wish I wasn’t” list, one of the things pretty high up is throwing food down myself at inopportune times. The reasons for this are legion, but the net result is that frankly I shouldn’t be allowed to wear a white shirt in public, certainly when there are attractive ladies around!
Sooooo, what have Gollancz gone and organised? Yup, a curry with various other authors. Ok, they’re all male so there’s a chance I’d get away with it under normal circumstances, but Gollancz in their infinite wisdom (sadist nature) have decided they’re going to film it.
Yup, filming me eating my lunch and pretending I know more about books than I do, then showing the world. The bastards.
But I am amused about how Signor Abercrombie has described it, nicknames aside… Actually, on that point, he does have a nickname for his editor, but I just can’t print it here….
Hee Hee. sounds like good clean fun *g* And don’t forget to let us know when and where we can view the end results ;)
Absolutely! There must be pointing and laughing – what else are friends for?
Ah, I’m not sure where it’s going to be put – they said they were going to use it for their sales conference but most of the clips will consist of Adam Roberts alternating between talking about shit and just talking shit, and Joe Abercrombie shouting “maps” at random occasions, like a special needs child who might just have captured Roberts’ interest…
For me, the most amusing part of the lunch was watching the face of the marketing woman who’d clearly never met any SFF authors before and was only then realising that she’d made a horrible mistake!
Was that before or after she’d seen the bar bill?
No, I think it was when she realised “maps” was as clever as the conversation was ever going to get, and there were great depths we could plumb!
Hee Hee. sounds like good clean fun *g* And don’t forget to let us know when and where we can view the end results ;)
Absolutely! There must be pointing and laughing – what else are friends for?
Ah, I’m not sure where it’s going to be put – they said they were going to use it for their sales conference but most of the clips will consist of Adam Roberts alternating between talking about shit and just talking shit, and Joe Abercrombie shouting “maps” at random occasions, like a special needs child who might just have captured Roberts’ interest…
For me, the most amusing part of the lunch was watching the face of the marketing woman who’d clearly never met any SFF authors before and was only then realising that she’d made a horrible mistake!
Was that before or after she’d seen the bar bill?
No, I think it was when she realised “maps” was as clever as the conversation was ever going to get, and there were great depths we could plumb!
“pretending I know more about books than I do” nah I think your intellegent!!!!
LOL I hope you spill all over yourself !!
“what? thats not nice” you may be thinking to yourself but you know how actors say “break a leg” for good luck — well im saying it in the context of spillers–basically dont spill LOL (hope I make sense- I tend to ramble ’bout nothing ^.^ )
OR wear a black shirt :)
;0) Yeah, I went for the dark shirt option!
And as anyone who’s every been forced to talk to me for longer than five minutes can attest, I certainly don’t claim that I’m not intelligent – pretty much the opposite really! But in my infinite wisdom I’ve just not read as many old-school geek books as people like Robert Rankin and Rob Grant (who turned up in a black suit and huge shades, I thought he was a terminator for a moment…)
“pretending I know more about books than I do” nah I think your intellegent!!!!
LOL I hope you spill all over yourself !!
“what? thats not nice” you may be thinking to yourself but you know how actors say “break a leg” for good luck — well im saying it in the context of spillers–basically dont spill LOL (hope I make sense- I tend to ramble ’bout nothing ^.^ )
OR wear a black shirt :)
;0) Yeah, I went for the dark shirt option!
And as anyone who’s every been forced to talk to me for longer than five minutes can attest, I certainly don’t claim that I’m not intelligent – pretty much the opposite really! But in my infinite wisdom I’ve just not read as many old-school geek books as people like Robert Rankin and Rob Grant (who turned up in a black suit and huge shades, I thought he was a terminator for a moment…)