Encounters With Authors

[Seamus123]

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[glynndah]

Gwendolyn Brooks gave a talk for my creative writing class in high school Nikki Giovanni presented me with an award for poetry in that same class. Both were great women and I wish I'd could remember any of the conversations we had.

Of course that was a very long time ago. Nothing more recently than didn't involve the real authors on Lit.

 

[rgraham666]

I spoke with William Gibson on the phone for about half an hour once.

I was working on an RPG based on his Sprawl series of stories and novels. I wrote to him. He phoned. He liked the idea, said get in touch with his agent about gaming rights and then chatted for a bit. Nice guy. I managed to avoid being a completely fawning fanboy.

I wrote his agent and she said they'd sold the gaming rights to Mattel.

I wrote to Mattel and they told me if I even thought about my game again, I and every member of my family would disappear from the Earth.

OK, the bit about my family disappearing is a joke. It was just me they threatened to make disappear.

 

[kendo1]

Go on!

Mention the game again, just for fun.

 

[Seamus123]

I spoke with William Gibson on the phone for about half an hour once.

I was working on an RPG based on his Sprawl series of stories and novels. I wrote to him. He phoned. He liked the idea, said get in touch with his agent about gaming rights and then chatted for a bit. Nice guy. I managed to avoid being a completely fawning fanboy.

I wrote his agent and she said they'd sold the gaming rights to Mattel.

I wrote to Mattel and they told me if I even thought about my game again, I and every member of my family would disappear from the Earth.

OK, the bit about my family disappearing is a joke. It was just me they threatened to make disappear.

Great story, especially with someone as famous as William Gibson. And that sucks about Mattel being big corporate assholes, too

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

Sort of a mixed bag for me.

Tom Wolfe

William Buckley

Kinky Friedman

There are several others with little, if any, name recognition or, as in the case of author, Robert Vaughn, suffer from name mis-recognition.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[cloudy]

Don't think I've ever met any authors, but I have a serious authorly crush on Sherman Alexie.

*swoon*

I'd just about kill to get to talk to the man.

 

[TheEarl]

I've met Jasper Fforde. I managed to book him to give a short talk at my uni, during a brief stint running a Creative Writing Society. He was witty, entertaining and, although apparently gives a very similar style talk wherever he goes, was very good value for our time. Plus he accepted an invitation to judge the finalists of our writing competition, so I'm as big a fan of him as a person as I am of his writing.

The Earl

 

[Guest]

Don't think I've ever met any authors, but I have a serious authorly crush on Sherman Alexie.

*swoon*

I'd just about kill to get to talk to the man.

Cloudy - I met Diana Gabaldon. She was in Kansas City just after her fourth book came out and met with a few hundred people at a book store.

She signed my four hardbacks of her books.

She is brilliant, has a killer sense of humor and is not too tall.

 

[cloudy]

Cloudy - I met Diana Gabaldon. She was in Kansas City just after her fourth book came out and met with a few hundred people at a book store.

She signed my four hardbacks of her books.

She is brilliant, has a killer sense of humor and is not too tall.

I adore her books! They're the only romances I can stomach, to be honest, and I suppose that's because her characters are so real.

And Jamie's a hunk and a half.

 

[Guest]

I adore her books! They're the only romances I can stomach, to be honest, and I suppose that's because her characters are so real.

And Jamie's a hunk and a half.

Would not kick that man outta bed.

For any reason.

 

[Stella_Omega]

My parents hung out with a crazy guy back in the '60's
He was a dear man, good to us kids, always coming up with fun stuff for us- like stringing love beads, or making our own incense, and he helped me build a rabbit hutch.
I understood that he was somehow involved with the assassination of President Kennedy and that, because we knew him, our phone was tapped by the FBI. Sometimes he had to go to New Orleans because of it.

He gave me a very amusing pamphlet, mimeographed on violently colored office papers and stapled together- it was called "Principia Discordia" and our friend was Kerry Thornley

Another one;

I raised my kids funny (what a surprise, huh?) And when all the sixth-grade girls were obsessed with Disney Princesses, my daughter was reading my collection of ElfQuest comix She did get a few of her friends interested in Cutter and Leetah, and my collection got ruint, dammit.

A couple of years ago, I was at a convention with my handicrafts (NOT the adult stuff, this was a family show!) and a lady bought a magic wand from me for somebody's present. When she wrote out the check, it said "Wendy Pini" and I simply lost all my cool!

 

[jomar]

Sort of a mixed bag for me.

Tom Wolfe

William Buckley

Kinky Friedman

There are several others with little, if any, name recognition or, as in the case of author, Robert Vaughn, suffer from name mis-recognition.

Rumple Foreskin

I hope you mentioned them on my "brush with fame" thread.

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

I hope you mentioned them on my "brush with fame" thread.

Can't recall if I did or didn't, Jomar. If you can give me the link, I'll check. There's a few non-novelist on my very short "celebraties I've Met" list.

Rumple Foreskin

ps: I found it, hadn't posted a thing, but will do. rf