Neener, Neener, NEEEEEEENERRRRR!!!!
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.dalect01.va.comcast.net)
Date: April 12, 2003 04:37AM
All hail! I met the Great Panjandrum...in the flesh!!! And Mari, too. Jasper and Mari are both fantastic people! Very personable, I must say! Oh, and by the way, I'm the VERY FIRST FfORUMITE he's met! (And he said so in my books! Neener! -can't believe an American had to be the first one! LOL)
I went to his book signing tonite and he read a little bit from LIAGB (seeing as how it just came out in the US)...he read the part from the Trial. It was funny. I loved hearing him read it. After he read that exerpt, he opened it up for questions and there were some good ones, indeed!
I asked him if there were any books that were about ready to come into public domain that he's slobbering over to write about. And he related a story about the Fiction Awards that will be in WOLP. He had Eeyore as one of the awards presenters who was doing the presentation for Best Dead Male Character. Well, all the Winnie the Pooh books are owned by Disney now and they said he couldn't use Eeyore. So in the edit, he put that the Emcee said, "I'm sorry, our original presenter, Eeyore, can't be here with us tonite due to some problems with copyright...." and his editor nixed that, saying it was just too cheeky. LOL, I thought it was great and the crowd thought it was hysterical!
There were lots of other good questions too. I'll try to remember them. And maybe I'll put them in a story for Whatever Next if Ben ever gets around to getting the stuff edited so we can post it! (Jasper asked about that by the way! So get off yer duff, PSD! <GRIN>)
Oh, and I did say "Hi from the Fforumites" as requested!