Meeting the Man

One week ago today I was waking up in Aurora, Ontario after having spent Sunday meeting and mixing with the man I asseverate as my favourite author.  (Gotta use a big word there since, you know, he's an author and all.  I couldn't just 'claim' that he was my favourite author.  No!  Far too plebeian a thing to do.)

Me and a dozen or so other of his most ardent fans enjoyed having him buy us drinks for a couple hours and then he was so gracious as to sign whatever books we foisted upon him.  I am still basking in the glow of the weekend, not least because of the totally wicked people I got to meet.

For a complete synopsis of the weekend, I've already written one at his authorised site.

Meeting Guy Kay.  Sweet!

Him signing some books.  Double Sweet!!

Comments

[Jim]

Wow! I envy you! I enjoyed your account of the event. Sounds like it was lots of fun! I wonder, though, what it will be like now for you to read his next book ... now that you have met GGK personally and he is "de-mystified". Will it be the same? Or will you just keep thinking, as you read the book, that it was just a "regular guy" that wrote it?

BTW, your Debcon gang make a truly GGeeKy looking bunch! I think would have felt right at home.

[Jenn]

Oh my god. You lucky lucky man. I adore Guy Gavriel Kay. Really really a lot. I envy you.

[Hazel Hazel]

awesome for you.

[s]

WAIT!! WAIT!!
STOP JUST A BLINKING MOMENT!!

GGK was HERE?! IN AURORA?!
But ... how did I not know?! Was I supposed to sense it? Was this some sort of super-secret meeting about which only the true GGK paladins are aware?

Oh wait. I suppose if I read brightweavings regularly I would probably know too, huh?

sigh.

[Jaquandor]

I hate you SO DAMN MUCH. (And I say that as a guy who's received a few personal e-mails from GGK.)

[Paul]

And, apparently, you slipped in an additional book, a certain copy of Tigana, to be signed for someone other than yourself. Thanks for your complicity.