{"id":4323,"date":"2017-09-08T17:55:51","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T17:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=4323"},"modified":"2017-10-03T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T21:30:00","slug":"signing-up-a-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2017\/09\/08\/signing-up-a-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"Signing Up A Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been a while since I visited the Jean Cocteau to sign books, so my staff dragged me down there yesterday, thrust a pen into my hand, and confronted me with a couple mountains of books.<\/p>\n

For you Wild Cards fans, I signed a hundred or so copies of the new trade paperback reissue of DEAD MAN’S HAND, the Wild Cards noir mystery story I co-authored with John Jos. Miller.<\/p>\n

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And if you’re fond of funny books, I also signed several towering piles of the new Dunk & Egg graphic novel, THE MYSTERY KNIGHT, scripted by Ben Avery with art by Mike S. Miller, the same terrific team who did the HEDGE KNIGHT and SWORN SWORD graphic novels. <\/p>\n

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Both titles, and dozens of others — by me, and by a host of other writers — are available via mail order from the Jean Cocteau at http:\/\/jeancocteaucinema.com\/product-category\/merchandise\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Speaking of signing, though… I think I may have set a personal record in Russia when I signed 900 books in two hours at my St. Petersburg event. I have signed more, at events in Slovenia and Dijon, France, but those of those events lasted a LOT longer than Russia. Four hours in France, seven in Slovenia. I barely survived the last…<\/p>\n

More about Russia in another post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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