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ONLY ANSWER THIS QUIZ IF YOU ARE A PUBLISHED AUTHOR:
Is it a signing tour if a publisher is flying you somewhere to sign books ... but there's only one stop, and no members of the public present?
The "signing tour" is a one-stop trip to a rainy industrial estate outside Dublin to sign the RPG rule books people paid for as part of a kickstarter! (They'll be mailed out in due course.)
It's a trip away from home organized by a publisher and I'm signing books for customers, so in my headcanon it's a signing tour.
(Why are you looking at me funny?)
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The "signing tour" is a one-stop trip to a rainy industrial estate outside Dublin to sign the RPG rule books people paid for as part of a kickstarter! (They'll be mailed out in due course.)
It's a trip away from home organized by a publisher and I'm signing books for customers, so in my headcanon it's a signing tour.
(Why are you looking at me funny?)
@cstross Hang on rule books? Did I miss a Laundry RPG?
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@cstross Hang on rule books? Did I miss a Laundry RPG?
@cstross @ross TIL the Laundry RPG is a thing and has a 2nd edition https://cubicle7games.com/our-games/the-laundry-roleplaying-game
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The "signing tour" is a one-stop trip to a rainy industrial estate outside Dublin to sign the RPG rule books people paid for as part of a kickstarter! (They'll be mailed out in due course.)
It's a trip away from home organized by a publisher and I'm signing books for customers, so in my headcanon it's a signing tour.
(Why are you looking at me funny?)
@cstross You could make it a multistop tour if you can find books at the airport (if you fly) or in the city center and sign those....
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The "signing tour" is a one-stop trip to a rainy industrial estate outside Dublin to sign the RPG rule books people paid for as part of a kickstarter! (They'll be mailed out in due course.)
It's a trip away from home organized by a publisher and I'm signing books for customers, so in my headcanon it's a signing tour.
(Why are you looking at me funny?)
@cstross
Surely a "tour" requires more than one port of call, by definition! -
The "signing tour" is a one-stop trip to a rainy industrial estate outside Dublin to sign the RPG rule books people paid for as part of a kickstarter! (They'll be mailed out in due course.)
It's a trip away from home organized by a publisher and I'm signing books for customers, so in my headcanon it's a signing tour.
(Why are you looking at me funny?)
@cstross
What if the copies you're to sign are all props in an elaborate larp? -
ONLY ANSWER THIS QUIZ IF YOU ARE A PUBLISHED AUTHOR:
Is it a signing tour if a publisher is flying you somewhere to sign books ... but there's only one stop, and no members of the public present?
@cstross Disappointed to have missed this. I'd have voted "Hell, no!" if that had been an option, although I might have softened my position somewhat if there had been mention of having a Guinness in a Dublin pub after the signing.
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@cstross Disappointed to have missed this. I'd have voted "Hell, no!" if that had been an option, although I might have softened my position somewhat if there had been mention of having a Guinness in a Dublin pub after the signing.
@bodhipaksa I won't be staying in Dublin.
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@bodhipaksa I won't be staying in Dublin.
@cstross In that case I revert to the "Hell no" option.
How do you keep yourself sane while doing something like that? When I'd signed much smaller quanities than I assume you're signing I've found it incredibly boring.
That sounds like a tough gig. I hope your signing hand doesn't cramp too much.
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@cstross
Surely a "tour" requires more than one port of call, by definition! -
@cstross
What if the copies you're to sign are all props in an elaborate larp?@cstross @mrundkvist
The Laundry RPG: The LARP would be appropriately meta. And in Ireland it could be the LARP that once through Tara's halls... -
ONLY ANSWER THIS QUIZ IF YOU ARE A PUBLISHED AUTHOR:
Is it a signing tour if a publisher is flying you somewhere to sign books ... but there's only one stop, and no members of the public present?
@cstross I figure that one stop would be a signing excursion or expedition. Perhaps a Jaunt. Hopefully it won't take longer than you think, Charlie!
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@cstross In that case I revert to the "Hell no" option.
How do you keep yourself sane while doing something like that? When I'd signed much smaller quanities than I assume you're signing I've found it incredibly boring.
That sounds like a tough gig. I hope your signing hand doesn't cramp too much.
@bodhipaksa I don't! Worst signing *ever* came to my front door—a crate of 1000 frontispieces to sign so they could be bound into a limited edition. Took a couple of days. The only way I could get through it was to mutter "one pound … one pound … one pound …" every time I picked up a new sheet (that's about what it paid above the basic royalty on SRP for a hardcover).
Writing lines used to be a punishment at school. Now it's part of the day job.
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@bodhipaksa I don't! Worst signing *ever* came to my front door—a crate of 1000 frontispieces to sign so they could be bound into a limited edition. Took a couple of days. The only way I could get through it was to mutter "one pound … one pound … one pound …" every time I picked up a new sheet (that's about what it paid above the basic royalty on SRP for a hardcover).
Writing lines used to be a punishment at school. Now it's part of the day job.
@cstross Ugh! I did that once for a few hours and almost went insane.
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The "signing tour" is a one-stop trip to a rainy industrial estate outside Dublin to sign the RPG rule books people paid for as part of a kickstarter! (They'll be mailed out in due course.)
It's a trip away from home organized by a publisher and I'm signing books for customers, so in my headcanon it's a signing tour.
(Why are you looking at me funny?)
@cstross ah the glamorous life of the writer!
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@bodhipaksa I don't! Worst signing *ever* came to my front door—a crate of 1000 frontispieces to sign so they could be bound into a limited edition. Took a couple of days. The only way I could get through it was to mutter "one pound … one pound … one pound …" every time I picked up a new sheet (that's about what it paid above the basic royalty on SRP for a hardcover).
Writing lines used to be a punishment at school. Now it's part of the day job.
@cstross @bodhipaksa yikes, "limited edition" not limited enough!
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@cstross ah, ok that makes more sense and sounds much less junkety
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