In our last episode,
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the lovely and talented Charles Bishop broadcast on alt.fan.cecil-adams:
> In article <slrng2i29s.30fp.usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Lars
> Eighner <usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> [snip]
>>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.
>>
> 88?
Probably not. Charing Cross Road, at least around Soho Sq. where my
publisher had offices next door to Paul McCartney, had bookshops like
everywhere else has Starbucks.
--
Lars Eighner <http://larseighner.com/>
usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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