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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?
@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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@pndc RPG rule books on paper aren't light and the pile I have to sign probably weighs more than I do. It's cheaper to ship me around—and besides, they've got a warehouse and mail order fulfillment facilities there. Whereas I do not (and I'm up four flights of steps from ground level on a no-stopping main road.)
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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 one of those is for me, so it'll be posted to Scotland afterwards.
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@freiksenet I got a few of them circa 2008-2014, but nothing recently. (Laundry Files and Merchant Princes didn't need them by that point; also publisher marketing spend per author dropped significantly.) They still happen but they're expensive so they're only really a thing for guaranteed bestsellers.
Also, I'm not visiting the USA under MAGA rule. And nowhere else has the potential sales to justify one.
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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 Galaxy Brain meme needs a Boltzmann Brain panel added
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@nina_kali_nina I have this ongoing fantasy that one day I'll start like "Old Crone Tech" and consult for companies that have software or hardware from ye olden times and help them move it.
Decompiling old programs, extending dosbox/etc to deal with weird peripherals, write modern drivers for old peripherals, things like that.
You'd think that there's a market for that kind of thing? But how would you even start...
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@nina_kali_nina We have some maybe-suitable roles open ATM - https://wikimediafoundation.org/jobs/#section-8
As a non-profit, it's not the same $$$ as places like Meta, but we do worthwhile work.
[if you have questions about WMF as a place to work, happy to (try and) answer them :) ]
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@hp ikr... Maybe I should consider creating such a market
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