So there will be a signing...

So, I found it very strange that I couldn’t find any information online about Terry Pratchett’s supposed illness and cancellation of his October signing tour. What I could find instead was information about his recently completed American tour, and a recent announced for a signing at London’s Forbidden Planet on the 13th of October. All of this made me very very suspicious, so I decided to e-mail the webmaster of L-Space, who got in touch with Terry Pratchett’s agent and got back to me saying that Terry is perfectly well and his signing tour is going ahead – it’s just the Nottingham signing at Waterstone’s that has been cancelled.

I am completely dumbfounded that the staff at Waterstone’s would make up some excuse concerning his health instead of just saying there was a problem with that signing in particular. I cannot believe it was done intentionally – it must have been that clerk in particular who was somehow misinformed. Still, you don’t tell people something like that unless you are absolutely sure. An illness that makes you know you will not be well three weeks in advance tends to be a little more serious than just a flu, so if you tell that to people they are naturally going to be concerned. I am quite upset that they weren’t more careful and didn’t make sure that all their staff had their facts straight. I bet there will be a lot of disappointed people asking about the cancellation of the signing, and I hope they are not all told what I was told.

Anyway, the London signing is on a Saturday, and it’s not like I have anything important to do that weekend, so I think I’m just going to that one instead. London is only a little over two hours and £15 roundtrip away, and I think that’s more than worth it to meet my second favourite author. It’s not like he ever does signings in Portugal, so who knows when I’ll have another chance. It was bad enough that I missed all the Neil Gaiman events last week because I was busy here in Nottingham with module registration and whatnot. So Forbidden Planet, here I go (Rhinoa, you should go too and meet me there!).

I am still reading The Book of Lost Things, and I am completely in love with it. I should finish it and post my review later this week. Also, I managed to find another copy of Varjak Paw, so I will be able to go back to it as soon as I finish The Book of Lost Things. I'm still waiting for someone from Virgin Media to come around and install things so I can finally have Internet access at home. I'm getting tired of being cut off from the world. Hopefully they won't take much longer.