In our last episode,
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the lovely and talented Greg Goss
broadcast on alt.fan.cecil-adams:
> Lars Eighner <usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> Heck, I didn't even know you were extremely famous until Greg
mentioned it.
>>
>>Well, of course you wouldn't, given my naturally reserved, demur, and
>>self-effacing manner.
> How does that work for a writer?
Evidently, not too well. If I had screwed the same people Barbara Walters
did, I would have a big hit.
> I thought that your most famous book was basically autobiographical?
For suitable values of "most famous."
Evidently signed copies are a big thing in England (whereas in the US, the
signing --- which is to say the personal appearance --- is the big thing).
So the British publisher of my memoir had me to London and I spent most of
my days in some hidden nook in stock storage areas of bookshops signing
copies and seeing no customers. We went to a shop on Charing Cross Road
one
day, and the clerk, who evidently had recognized me while my British
publicist and I were still in the street, rushed up with armloads of my
*****ca. He was complete unaware of my memoir or that we had an
appointment
with the bookbuyer for me to sign the memoir. I still don't know how he
recognized me, because none of the *****ca had a jacket photo (heh, heh,
at
least not of me). On the other hand, when I went on my own to the only
gay
bookshop (which was just on the other side of the British Museum from my
digs), they had copies of the memoir set out for me to sign, but I had to
point the *****ca on their shelves. They were complete unaware that I was
the same guy.
Lars "Big in Europe" Eighner
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<http://larseighner.com/>
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