Three in a row!
by Rob - August 4th, 2006.Filed under: Uncategorized.
Being an author is kinda cool sometimes. :) Today I got recognized not once, not twice, but three times in public — a record to date.
It happened first at BestBuy, where a sales associate in the computer department told me how much he’d enjoyed my books, including Factoring Humanity and Calculating God.
Then it happened at the World’s Biggest Bookstore in Toronto. The cashier there played it cool. When I handed her the four copies of the October Analog I was buying, which has my name prominently on the cover, she said, without missing a beat, “Don’t they send you contributor’s copies?” (Yes, they do — but I wanted more.) We had a nice little chat after that.
Later, I was out at the monthly First Thursday fannish pub night, which we were holding in a new venue this month. A fellow entered the pub we were in, did a double-take when he saw me, and came over to say he really enjoyed my interviews on TV, and vividly remembered some comments I’d made about cyberpunk.
Nice! :)