We just met Neil Gaiman. He did a reading, Q&A and book signing in Hanna-Easons in town. I got his chapter in the Writers on Comics Scriptwriting signed, and er, didn't actually say that much to him - I just basked in the reflected glory of
inannajones, who asked a really good question, and had about as long a conversation as you can have at a signing with him. But he's so cool. He's really really nice, in that way that it seems only fantasy/sci-fi authors can be, and he answers questions in the spirit that they were asked in, and he tries very hard to make every signing individual. He wrote "Write!!" above his signature on the chapter. I'm incoherent, but I'm very very pleased that he's turned out to be as cool as I had hoped.
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