The VanderMeer Endurance Tour: The Final Push!
The photo above is of two pages of my personal copy of Booklife, which I’ve been having everyone I meet sign. It’s got everyone from the cabby who drove me into NYC to Lev Grossman to Robert Fisher from Willard Grant Conpiracy to Colleen Lindsay to Matt Cheney to Ekaterina Sedia to most of the attendees at the various events. It’s especially gratifying to get readers’ signatures, and to see their surprise and often their delight at getting to sign my “yearbook” of my five-week tour. It’s already one of my prized possessions, and I hope that those of you attending the last events will also sign it.
I’ve had an incredible three-and-a-half weeks, and although at times I have felt the strain of all this time on the road, for the most part it’s been a glorious adventure (chronicled on Facebook). Here are the remaining events. I hope I see some of this blog’s readers at them. We’ve been averaging a healthy forty to fifty per event and it would be great to end strong–and, frankly, cheering me on is gonna help keep me energized. (And, anyone in Atlanta–that last gig is totally a huge party.)
Also note the full interview that was excerpted on national NPR. Also, there is an LA Times review but it is full of spoilers, starting in the first para. If you haven’t read the book you must avoid this review at all costs.
WOFFORD COLLEGE (Spartanburg, SC) – Dec. 3, 7:30 p.m.
429 North Church Street, Olin Theater
Reading/Signing
MALAPROPS BOOKSTORE (Asheville, NC) – Dec. 5, 3pm to 5pm
55 Haywood Street
Kaaffeklatch and Signing
BARNES & NOBLE (Burlington, NC) – Dec. 6, 2pm
3125 Waltham Blvd
Reading/Signing
FOUNTAIN BOOKSTORE (Richmond, VA) – Dec. 8, 6:00pm
1312 E Cary St.
Holiday party special guest, with reading and signing (6:45pm)
CHAPEL HILL COMICS (Chapel Hill, NC) – Dec. 10, 7pm to 8:30pm
316 W Franklin St
Reading/Signing/Group Story, with Mur Lafferty and special guest Natania Barron
MANUEL’S BAR (Atlanta, GA) – Dec. 11, 8pm
(602 N. Highland Ave, North Avenue Room)
Reading/Signing with Will Hindmarch and special guest J.M. McDermott
December 2, 2009 at 10:28 pm
That signed “yearbook” is a brilliant idea!
Good luck with the rest of the tour.
December 3, 2009 at 5:05 am
shit shit shit shit….no way i’m gonna be able to put my little scribbly thingy in that book……
what’s with ‘fuck off grasshopper’?????
peace and love…..
December 3, 2009 at 5:09 pm
“fuck off grasshopper” is a quote from “Hot Fuzz”, and is what Jeff gets when he requests that I swear when signing his book. I’m an obliging sort of person.
(It’s not the worst I did.)
December 3, 2009 at 10:16 pm
Jeff, thanks again for signing my copy of Booklife (and writing it!) You and other new weird writers got me back into fantasy reading again (my life blood in teenage years) after too much of the real world lit fic from college, and it’s been a blast to discover new avenues in the roots of what I try to write myself.
December 5, 2009 at 8:51 am
See you in Richmond!