Where was everyone?

[cdave]

Last night I went to Forbidden Planet for the launch of Cory Doctorow's latest novel: Makers.

I was intending to buy the book and leave it pristine. Only rereading it once the serialisation on tor.com had finished. That plan lasted all of about 5 minutes. There's some good bits come up, some lovely character development, and at least one WTF? moment.

Speaking of WTF, that has to be the quietest book launch I've ever been to. I was shocked. I got there about 15 minutes into the hour, and there was only one person there. I spent a good few minutes fanboying (Cory recognised me from a previous signing! Eeh!) and SMOFing (Looks like he probably can't make it to Eastercon). And it was only as I was leaving that another person arrived.

Comments

[jamesb.livejournal.com]

Ah Sorry. I must have missed when you posted about this last week or whenever.
And ansible didn't have it listed either.

Must check the fp website more often. J

[cdave]

Must admit I didn't post a link to it myself. I do too much stuff that's open to the public to post it all. In that it'd outweigh my normal posts at least.

My calendar's available though, if any feels like viewing my plans to see if anything cool looks like it's coming up.

[jamesb.livejournal.com]

Er ok.

Well should see you at the tun next week then.

J

[jon-a-five.livejournal.com]

Did Cory not tell the internet?

[cdave]

Cory certainly did. He tweeted, he boinged, he emailed, he RSSed.

I really am at a loss.

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

poor Cory! I feel for him..

[alexmc.livejournal.com]

You mean Cory failed on the self publicity front? Tell me it isn't so! I don't believe it!

[theengineer.livejournal.com]

He'll be here in Toronto next week, let's see what kind of a turnout we get.