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Penny Arcade - Comic - The Debut Novel
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Penny Arcade - Comic - The Debut Novel
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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It leaves you breathless.
He made me sit with him, because I'd drawn & designed the characters from the book.
During the first session, a store phone hanging on the wall near the table was ringing constantly. I informed an employee, and they seemed confused by the concept of a store phone. They eventually picked up the phone, spoke briefly with the person on the other end, then hung up. Moments later, the phone started ringing again. After ten minutes of ceaseless ringing, I picked it up myself and spoke to the person on the other end. I told them that I wasn't an employee, that no one was working here, and nobody could take their call. Their reply was so muffled and unintelligeble I couldn't even be sure we were speaking the same language. I just hung up. Moments later, the phone started ringing again. I sank into myself, seeking escape in my own mind.
The second session was at another store. We had a table, but no chairs, so we had to stand the whole time. Luckily, I had picked up a stomach flu sometime earlier that day, so I could excuse myself to the bathroom every twenty minutes to shit myself blind. It was a nice reprieve. "This is better," I thought to myself, sitting alone in the toilet stall, guts churning. "This is better."
Between two sessions, three hours total, we sold about four books.
He had a third store appearance planned too, and I told him that I loved him very much but he would have to handle it solo. He sold eleven books at that one! He was over the moon.
He's currently working on another book.
I know an author in Michigan who collects war letters and novelizes the stories of the people that wrote them. He does signing tours and it's basically the Barnes and Nobles in Saginaw/Flint/Midland and a couple military surplus/memorabilia places. He calls and sets them up himself and book stores are generally open to allowing it but disinterested in helping.