Personal Note: I need to buy a lottery ticket today

[nebroadwe]

So Rick Riordan, author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, has a new book coming out on May 4, The Red Pyramid. (Also, evidently, the first book of the Percy Jackson sequel series, The Heroes of Olympus, entitled The Lost Hero, streeting on October 12. Huh. The things you learn while googling ...) He's doing a publicity tour for it that will fetch up in my vicinity on May 5. I don't live completely off the beaten path for author tours, but it's the rare one that both a) features an author in whom I'm interested; and b) doesn't require out-of-state travel. Forget Florida -- sorry, evil_little_dog -- when I retire, I'm moving to Minnesota or California or New York so I can meet cool professional writers all the time. I'll be known as That Gray-Haired Granny Again and strike terror into the hearts of bookshop owners everywhere. Heh, heh, heh ...

Er, anyway, I called the bookshop that's arranging tickets for the event and managed to sniggle two of the last three available for me and the goddaughter who introduced me to Percy Jackson (with predictable results). Zing! The Not-Yet-Gray-Haired Auntie strikes a blow for fandom, swooping down to pluck author access from the jaws of venue management, leaving a flapping of dust jackets in her wake. Ha!

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[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

that reminds me to check to see if i won the lottery...

that would be good to get to see him. I liked Minnesota and New york (well NOT the city but otherwise)

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

that reminds me to check to see if i won the lottery...

Don't forget us when you're rich and famous, okay?

that would be good to get to see him. I liked Minnesota and New york (well NOT the city but otherwise)

I like visiting NYC but living there -- no, thanks. Too crowded and noisy. Upstate NY, on the other hand, or even the Hudson Valley, sure.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

as it turns out they're drawing it tonight.

I lived in the Hudson valley and worked in Harlem & the south bronx

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

One of my college friends grew up in the Hudson Valley, near Rhinebeck. I visited her one summer and loved the show at the little airfield. Downside: her house had no a/c and it was HUMID. I tried and failed to sleep on a couch all night, ugh. (Well, I nearly made it to sleep once, at which point something landed on my back with a whump! that sent my heart rate through the roof. It was the family cat, who insisted on trying to crawl into bed with me until we finally put it out of the house. And people wonder why I don't have pets despite liking animals ...)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yeah i'm not thrilled with pets in the bed either.

My issues with that area wasn't the humidity. it was the blinding expense

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

yeah i'm not thrilled with pets in the bed either.

I'd gathered that ... :-)

My issues with that area wasn't the humidity. it was the blinding expense

Oog, yes. You'll notice I've only visited there. One of my friends lived up there for several years in one room in the basement of a townhouse for $900/mo.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

try telling the pets that though

Granted I hate hate hate humidity but that paled to my 13X14 studio that was 600$ back in 1993

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Ye gods. I was renting half a two-bedroom apartment for a little over half that at the same time in Philadelphia.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

it was horrible. my train pass to harlem every month was 220$. NYC all but destroyed me financially but that's where my residency was...

[artemisrae.livejournal.com]

I am so jealous. I've heard he's a fun speaker.

(If you get a chance, ask him when Annabeth's birthday is? I'm superstitious about dates, and it's driving me bonkers that we know Percy's but not hers...)

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

I am so jealous. I've heard he's a fun speaker.

I'm looking forward to this -- I hope it's a good crowd. Will post a report afterwards. I'll try to remember the birthday question, even if I have to spring it on him in the autograph line. (Or get my goddaughter to ask it.)

[artemisrae.livejournal.com]

It's okay if you're too embarrassed or forget. And he probably doesn't have one picked for her anyway. But I think it must be because of my own strange birthday (being all 8's) that birth dates are important. And it doesn't matter if he doesn't have one, because I may have picked one anyway. (Um, and Ed and Al and Winry's birthday's too...)

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

I actually did figure out a way to ask it as part of a larger writing process question (something like, "How much backstory do you work out for your characters, apart what gets revealed in the plot? A friend of mine wants to know when Annabeth's birthday is -- is that the sort of detail you pay attention to?").

And it doesn't matter if he doesn't have one, because I may have picked one anyway. (Um, and Ed and Al and Winry's birthday's too...)

Ah, the fanficcer's impulse. If canon hasn't explored it, we get out the machetes and headlamps and make for the brush on either side of the plot.

[nateprentice.livejournal.com]

Your goddaughter is really looking forward to the trip!

I plead the 5th on the status of your greys.

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Good idea. Glass houses, man, glass houses ...

[lyrangalia]

Meant to comment yesterday but forgot, oops.

The Riordan tour/signing/talk sounds like fun. You will tell us all the details, right?

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

Of course. (I'm still kicking myself for not finishing my last con report -- this time, no delays!)