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Jul. 21st, 2007
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Jul. 21st, 2007 06:43 pmThat postscript on my writephotopost, which was pretty illegible, reads "PS: Epic "DH" slashfic" -- that's DH, not D/H :D Predictably I've picked the two smallest possible characters and started working away. It'll be posted, with luck, later today.
The midnight release party was an absolute blast -- 57th Street Books did up a right splendid bash for the last book with crafts, lots of interesting food, tons of people in costume, and Auror Lessons for anyone who wanted them by several people in book-character. The Auror lessons cleverly led up to an invasion of Death Eaters just before midnight, and I will be posting video at some point of, and I kid you not, Remus Lupin (who did a really exceptionally good cosplay) leading about three dozen "Auror Trained" children in an epic battle against Voldemort.
They were also extremely well-organised in distribution. The line to purchase the books before the party moved fast; they had a separate line for cash/check as for credit card, which was nice. On payment you were given a blue voucher (see photo) with a number written on it. After the battle with Voldemort, everyone was herded into the party room and the numbers were called in sets of 25. You entered the hallway, showed your number to be sure it was in the right set, got your book, and walked out the exit, so the hall emptied slowly and there was no huge crush of people. I was very early, so I got to watch everyone leaving, taking pictures, laughing, starting to read, and being excited because they finally had it.
When we went out for breakfast this morning my companion and gracious host pointed out to me an elderly woman to my left reading the book while eating her meal. I grinned and pointed out a young girl behind us who had the book sitting next to her plate. :D
Anyway, I'm off to catch up on email and work on the fic a bit; have fun reading, y'all.
The midnight release party was an absolute blast -- 57th Street Books did up a right splendid bash for the last book with crafts, lots of interesting food, tons of people in costume, and Auror Lessons for anyone who wanted them by several people in book-character. The Auror lessons cleverly led up to an invasion of Death Eaters just before midnight, and I will be posting video at some point of, and I kid you not, Remus Lupin (who did a really exceptionally good cosplay) leading about three dozen "Auror Trained" children in an epic battle against Voldemort.
They were also extremely well-organised in distribution. The line to purchase the books before the party moved fast; they had a separate line for cash/check as for credit card, which was nice. On payment you were given a blue voucher (see photo) with a number written on it. After the battle with Voldemort, everyone was herded into the party room and the numbers were called in sets of 25. You entered the hallway, showed your number to be sure it was in the right set, got your book, and walked out the exit, so the hall emptied slowly and there was no huge crush of people. I was very early, so I got to watch everyone leaving, taking pictures, laughing, starting to read, and being excited because they finally had it.
When we went out for breakfast this morning my companion and gracious host pointed out to me an elderly woman to my left reading the book while eating her meal. I grinned and pointed out a young girl behind us who had the book sitting next to her plate. :D
Anyway, I'm off to catch up on email and work on the fic a bit; have fun reading, y'all.