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Everything sounds wonderful! Well, except the no parking bit. Glad you got that taken care of.
Wish I could have been there. Maybe someday, eh? I have a million other things to say but I think I'll wait. But so glad the reading went well, and Hazel was wonderful.
"And by the way you look fantastic in your boots of Chinese plastic."
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| Re: Another Perfect Day [message #3868 is a reply to message #3850 ] |
Thu, 06 November 2008 20:44 |
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Oooh, I read the title with such hope--
And then saw the next line. ALAS.
But it sounds like the signing itself was a success! (Yes?) All the blog readers groaning at the Damar question = hee. Reading! And signing! And Hazel!
Sounds so lovely.
Glad your car wasn't clamped. :S
Smooshes!
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| Re: Another Perfect Day [message #3876 is a reply to message #3850 ] |
Thu, 06 November 2008 21:45 |
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Though of course we're all hoping that someday that question will be answered...
"And by the way you look fantastic in your boots of Chinese plastic."
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| Re: Another Perfect Day [message #3877 is a reply to message #3850 ] |
Thu, 06 November 2008 21:49 |
 skating librarian
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What a relief! I've been away from my computer for a few days and I've been soooo worried that dire things might be happening over there in the UK.
It sounds as if in spite of frustrations, a good time was had by all ...
I'm so grateful that this blog lets us interact with the "real " you. I always had a feeling that hiding somewhere behind the cranky author exterior there was a funny, passionate, human bean because that seemed the only explanation for the wonderful books you've given us.
And the hellhounds ate their dinner... oh frabjous day!
"Winning a war is like winning an earthquake" Jeanette Rankin
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| Re: Another Perfect Day [message #3889 is a reply to message #3884 ] |
Fri, 07 November 2008 00:58 |
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Akai
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It sounds simply delightful (barring the carpark issue and the almost missing your station at the end of the day)!!! I hope you had fun... although you've now made me terrified of British Train Stations, which my sister and I will have to learn to navigate next summer. (I am now writing a note to myself to remember to get a lot of coins at the exchange station...can I fit 250 pounds sterling in coins into one of those travelers money belts? Would a thief even bother at that point?)
Pictures would be lovely, especially of these All-Stars you mention. I haven't seen any with climbing roses and they sound fun! (my poor old black converse [traditional, I know] are now about 9 years old, and have holes and rips. That means I can't wear them this winter and need a new pair...SOB!!! Although, on the bright side, I would get to draw new things on the sides.)
I hope everybody who was there had a great time! =D
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| Re: Another Perfect Day [message #3890 is a reply to message #3850 ] |
Fri, 07 November 2008 01:08 |
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Sometimes this time difference thing is a real pain! I want pictures! I want descriptions!
PS. Belle wants to see Hazel's outfits!
I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder
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Fri, 07 November 2008 02:23 |
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| Robin wrote |
I therefore failed to mention that I’d come prepared to read aloud from work in progress
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Oh, you beast! Just for that I shall post my photo of you and Southdowner and Hazel, but not just yet as it is still on my phone, and I am about to go skating. But when I get back..... bwahahahaha (actually, I think it's a really nice photo, as far as I can tell looking on my phone's tiny screen).
Seriously, it was lovely to meet you in person, and thank you so much for signing all my books for me!
Vikkik and I then went on to IKnitLondon, which has a knitting club on a Thursday night that I've been longing to go to but to shy to go by myself. That was fun, too, and she knits wondrous socks!
Mrs Redboots
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| Re: Another Perfect Day [message #3915 is a reply to message #3850 ] |
Fri, 07 November 2008 05:00 |
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¤¤ Heh heh heh. PEGASUS or the short-short story for the new WATER. Heh.
Now that is just plain mean! What an opportunity we missed, being reserved British people who ARE TOO POLITE to ask an author if maybe she has a work in progress she might like to read from! No, seriously, it was squashed but wonderful, and I have to say that your belt, Robin, made me deeply covetous. It was a thing of sparkly wonder and delight. I missed the rose All Stars, though. Bah! So glad you got home ok--my train sat in what appeared to be a siding for 47 minutes. Now we just have to wait for Southdowner to fill the rest of you in on the knitted ferret thingy! Am trying to work out how to post my lovely Hazel pics, but have to go to 2 boring meetings now and am typing as fast as a demon to get this in...
Lucy xx
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| Re: Another Perfect Day [message #3916 is a reply to message #3850 ] |
Fri, 07 November 2008 06:01 |
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Clears throat a bit - forgot my camera... sorry:(
It was fantastic. There were 22 of us when I counted, in a fairly small, booklined room - and Robin sitting behind the desk, magisterially reading to us, and Hazel on the floor in front of the desk, looking fabulous in pink (there was even a tiara, which I think Mrs Redboots got a photo of her wearing).
She did readings (and it surprised me that she has an American accent - I don't know why, maybe because writing doesn't have an accent)
She told us... what did she tell us? Ah yes:
That the Hellhounds were ok.
That there is another book being planned for the Sunshine universe (she gave us a very very few details but didn't want to give us too much... Based in England, female baddie, female protagonist...)
She told us about bell ringing and how she started.
Constantine is not called after Connie the horse, or vice versa.
She read from Sunshine (I missed the reading from Chalice).
We then queued up very politely and got our books signed (and books on the shelves kept throwing themselves at me and Vikki - literally, I don't mean in a euphemistically "and then we bought them" way, I mean landing on us, or falling on the floor when we walked past), which Robin did very nicely.
It was difficult to see Robin's all stars - but she had a lovely sparkly star hair slide in which I envied, and a lovely velvetty jacket on.
I may have missed one or two answers when the books threw themselves at me (I was right at the back because of being late)
Louiz. (annoyed about the camera thing).
Bibliovorous.
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Fri, 07 November 2008 06:05 |
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| Louiz wrote on Fri, 07 November 2008 06:01 |
Clears throat a bit - forgot my camera... sorry:(
It was fantastic. There were 22 of us when I counted, in a fairly small, booklined room - and Robin sitting behind the desk, magisterially reading to us, and Hazel on the floor in front of the desk, looking fabulous in pink (there was even a tiara, which I think Mrs Redboots got a photo of her wearing).
She did readings (and it surprised me that she has an American accent - I don't know why, maybe because writing doesn't have an accent)
She told us... what did she tell us? Ah yes:
That the Hellhounds were ok.
That there is another book being planned for the Sunshine universe (she gave us a very very few details but didn't want to give us too much... Based in England, female baddie, female protagonist...)
She told us about bell ringing and how she started.
Constantine is not called after Connie the horse, or vice versa.
She read from Sunshine (I missed the reading from Chalice).
We then queued up very politely and got our books signed (and books on the shelves kept throwing themselves at me and Vikki - literally, I don't mean in a euphemistically "and then we bought them" way, I mean landing on us, or falling on the floor when we walked past), which Robin did very nicely.
It was difficult to see Robin's all stars - but she had a lovely sparkly star hair slide in which I envied, and a lovely velvetty jacket on.
I may have missed one or two answers when the books threw themselves at me (I was right at the back because of being late)
Louiz. (annoyed about the camera thing).
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THANK YOU LOUIZ!
And sorry for you too that you forgot your camera. Hopefully the images are burned into your brain!! 
I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder
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| Re: Another Perfect Day [message #3918 is a reply to message #3915 ] |
Fri, 07 November 2008 06:06 |
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| Lucy Coats wrote on Fri, 07 November 2008 05:00 |
¤¤ Heh heh heh. PEGASUS or the short-short story for the new WATER. Heh.
Now that is just plain mean! What an opportunity we missed, being reserved British people who ARE TOO POLITE to ask an author if maybe she has a work in progress she might like to read from! No, seriously, it was squashed but wonderful, and I have to say that your belt, Robin, made me deeply covetous. It was a thing of sparkly wonder and delight. I missed the rose All Stars, though. Bah! So glad you got home ok--my train sat in what appeared to be a siding for 47 minutes. Now we just have to wait for Southdowner to fill the rest of you in on the knitted ferret thingy! Am trying to work out how to post my lovely Hazel pics, but have to go to 2 boring meetings now and am typing as fast as a demon to get this in...
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Thanks for your updates Lucy
Between you all I think we will get a very good picture. 
I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder
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Fri, 07 November 2008 06:17 |
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I enjoyed the signing, thank you very much. And thank you for answering all the questions, especially my one about Albion. Now only another two or three years to wait....
I thought you looked remarkably calm and collected, despite the transport problems and the recovering Hellhounds. Is this what you call Full Public Mode? I must say, it conveys an air of sanity and control that is far removed from your blog persona.
It's a shame in a way that you didn't manage to read from work in progress, but then it would only have whetted our appetites unfairly. I was struck, however, in the readings that you chose, by how similar, in some ways, the situations of the Master in Chalice and Constantine are: both at a distance from the human world, and the heroine having somehow to bridge that distance. Both inhumanly powerful, but at the same time more vulnerable than humans as well. And there are resonances between Mirasol and Sunshine, as well. Anyway, enough of that, or I might find myself having to re-read Chalice immediately.
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| Re: Another Perfect Day [message #3929 is a reply to message #3916 ] |
Fri, 07 November 2008 06:49 |
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| Louiz wrote on Fri, 07 November 2008 06:01 |
Clears throat a bit - forgot my camera... sorry:(
It was fantastic. There were 22 of us when I counted, in a fairly small, booklined room - and Robin sitting behind the desk, magisterially reading to us, and Hazel on the floor in front of the desk, looking fabulous in pink (there was even a tiara, which I think Mrs Redboots got a photo of her wearing).
She did readings (and it surprised me that she has an American accent - I don't know why, maybe because writing doesn't have an accent)
She told us... what did she tell us? Ah yes:
That the Hellhounds were ok.
That there is another book being planned for the Sunshine universe (she gave us a very very few details but didn't want to give us too much... Based in England, female baddie, female protagonist...)
She told us about bell ringing and how she started.
Constantine is not called after Connie the horse, or vice versa.
She read from Sunshine (I missed the reading from Chalice).
We then queued up very politely and got our books signed (and books on the shelves kept throwing themselves at me and Vikki - literally, I don't mean in a euphemistically "and then we bought them" way, I mean landing on us, or falling on the floor when we walked past), which Robin did very nicely.
It was difficult to see Robin's all stars - but she had a lovely sparkly star hair slide in which I envied, and a lovely velvetty jacket on.
I may have missed one or two answers when the books threw themselves at me (I was right at the back because of being late)
Louiz. (annoyed about the camera thing).
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Wait--what? Another book in the Sunshine world? Is this what Albion is? (since we never found out about it on the blog...) I might just burst with excitement, even if it does happen an ocean away from Sunshine herself.
A funny occurrence: I sent Sunshine to my best friend for her birthday, and she sent me an email yesterday saying, "I finished the vampire book today. It was really good; I think I'll keep up with the series. It is a series, right? I will find out what happens to them, right?"
And I laughed and told her, sorry. No. Robin McKinley doesn't work like that. Which I have to respect. I mean, how many series entries have I read that have been clearly required by a contract and not inspired by the NEED to put the story down on paper? Too many, that's how many.
I just hope my friend doesn't curse me for getting her hooked and looking for more Sunshine.
Known on both Ravelry and LibraryThing as thelorelei.
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| Re: Another Perfect Day [message #3930 is a reply to message #3850 ] |
Fri, 07 November 2008 06:57 |
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Robin wrote: | Quote: |
and I therefore failed to mention that I’d come prepared to read aloud from work in progress.
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Hmm, a missed opportunity - although I suspect that it wouldn't have been healthy for the UK-based contingent to have had any more largesse heaped upon them, in comparison to our colleagues in other lands. Don't want those outside the UK to turn permanently green, or to come over here and hunt us down in revenge!
I don't know if this was the case for any other forum members in attendance yesterday but I'd not been to an author signing before and didn't know quite what to expect. There was a little hesitancy at the start of the evening, I thought, with many of us slightly freaking out (in a quiet, British, sort of way) at the thought that we were actually in the same room as Robin - who coped nobly with it all and took charge well! And I also felt strongly how alarming it might be for any human being in Robin's situation, faced with a packed mass of eager-to-be-friendly people who know a little of her life through the blog but about whom she knows very little in return. Yet another consequence of online communications I suppose.
Oh, and I'd also like to say to Southdowner and Robin how much I appreciated their patient acceptance of my unfortunate tendency to move into Mother Hen mode at the end of the evening. Yes, I know they're both grown women and they didn't need me fussing over them or their travel arrangements. My nearest and (allegedly) dearest informed me later that I was practically clucking. :sigh: It's hard to switch these traits off.
One final thing - as I was standing in front of you, Robin, while you were signing my two books, I was so struck with the beautiful and unusual rings you were wearing. Stunning! Your entire outfit was so cool and appropriate I was deeply impressed.
"Never let a computer know you're in a hurry."
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Fri, 07 November 2008 08:03 |
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P.S. Jodi, we did think of you! Well, we thought of all of you really, but we actually mentioned you by name.... also Kathy_S.
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and it surprised me that she has an American accent - I don't know why, maybe because writing doesn't have an accent
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Quite. It's called DaMAR, and not DAY-mar, who knew?
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I don't know if this was the case for any other forum members in attendance yesterday but I'd not been to an author signing before and didn't know quite what to expect. There was a little hesitancy at the start of the evening, I thought, with many of us slightly freaking out (in a quiet, British, sort of way) at the thought that we were actually in the same room as Robin - who coped nobly with it all and took charge well!
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Yes, didn't we all go horribly shy! Poor Robin! But we loosened up in the end, I thought.
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| Re: Another Perfect Day [message #3944 is a reply to message #3850 ] |
Fri, 07 November 2008 09:51 |
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I am happy to sign books as long as there are books to sign. But you might want to check first, next author signing you go to.
I always have wondered about this. The few times I've felt a need to get a book signed, I figure that 1-2 is the safe way to go, both for the author and for the people behind me in line; and yet, the last time I did so (a comic con, where one my favorite artists had a table) the dude in front of me had approximately 200 comics--I kid you not, like the entire full run of two different series of this guy's comics. And I thought to myself--seriously? If you genuinely liked an author/artist, would you WANT to ask them to spend 30 minutes signing your 200 comic books?
I sing now, you know. But I have to sing in the car because I haven’t got a shower. The resonances are really not as good.
No, but car is a good second (speaking as a car-shower singer myself.) Plus, the stereo lets you experiment with harmony and multipart singing...
"The time is always right to do what's right."--MLK Jr.
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| Re: Another Perfect Day [message #3946 is a reply to message #3850 ] |
Fri, 07 November 2008 10:22 |
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I had a dream last night that I received a package in the mail and in it was a new copy of Chalice that Southdowner had taken to the signing and gotten signed for me and then had shipped to me. There was a paragraph of golden-coloured-ink on the first page from Robin. It was a fabulous dream, though terribly disappointing to wake up from.
"The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel."
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| Re: Oh, and PS [message #3950 is a reply to message #3947 ] |
Fri, 07 November 2008 10:59 |
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| Susan from Athens wrote on Fri, 07 November 2008 10:34 |
| Mrs Redboots wrote on Fri, 07 November 2008 15:03 |
It's called DaMAR, and not DAY-mar, who knew?
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I giggled at that: I always went for the third alternative:
DAM-ar.
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I dunno, maybe it's the american accent in me (though other americans keep asking me what my accent is... apparently my speech patterns are really odd...), but DaMAR is always how it's pronounced itself in my head. Hurrah! I got it right! ^_^
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