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Tonight, John Scalzi made a stop at the Prairie Lights book­store in Iowa City, IA for his book tour to pro­mote The Last Colony. Michelle & I got there wicked early¹ and chat­ted with a cou­ple of store employ­ees briefly. For­tu­nately, they were cool with me bring­ing in my own copy of The Android’s Dream to get it signed. *whew*

Then while we were look­ing around the shelves near the area for the read­ing, they said we could go ahead and pur­chase a copy of The Last Colony while we were wait­ing so we wouldn’t have to wait in line later. Schweet. Then I noticed they had copies of The Sagan Diary. I was most pleased by this as I was a bit strapped for cash when the pre-orders were announced for it on Mr. Scalzi’s blog and I’d heard the com­plete print run had sold out. Nat­u­rally, I grabbed one of the 3 copies they had left. :D Then we went into the cof­fee shop³ and grabbed a drink. I had their cafe mocha, while Michelle had a brewed but­ter­scotch tof­fee cof­fee, which she promptly ruined by using soy milk for a creamer and adding sugar to it. Then we went back over to the read­ing area and found Mr. Scalzi had arrived. He was chat­ting with the few mem­bers of the audi­ence⁴ and with the var­i­ous mem­bers of the staff.
As Mr. Scalzi’s visit hap­pened to be part of the Live from Prairie Lights. This is a local radio pro­gram that is recorded live and then later played back on a local radio sta­tion, as well as the UofI’s school/public access TV chan­nel. So he also spent some time talk­ing to the host of the pro­gram prep­ping for the show.

Then just before the show began, he addressed the audi­ence let­ting us know he’d start off by read­ing the first chap­ter of The Last Colony, go into a Q&A ses­sion and then he’d be happy to pose for pho­tos. Nat­u­rally, that’s when I decided to snap a quick shot. Heh. I also took a cou­ple of pho­tos later, but they weren’t as amus­ing as this one so they’ll remain offline for now. The read­ing and Q&A were quite fun to lis­ten to. Not being a writer, I didn’t join in and ask any ques­tions (plus my caf­feine buzz was wear­ing off). After the record­ing was over, Mr. Scalzi kindly offered to sign any books peo­ple had. I quickly stepped into line with my brand-new copy of The Last Colony — specif­i­cally pur­chased at Prairie Lights this very evening to sup­port them, since they brought Mr. Scalzi in for us — and my slightly dog-earred copy of The Android’s Dream.

Side note: Yes, I real­ize this entry is rather dis­jum­bled. This is partly explained by me hav­ing a caffeine-crash headache, partly by me stay­ing up till 1AMish to write it and partly by me just not being a writer.
Side note 2: The quickie post fol­low­ing this will explain part of why the heck I’m still up writ­ing this.

¹ Mostly due to somebody’s lead foot².
² Said lead foot was not a Men’s size 13.
³ In his opin­ion on cof­fee, Mr. Scalzi is quite wrong. Cof­fee (espe­cially good cof­fee) does not taste like ass.
⁴ Around this time, Michelle men­tioned to him The Android’s Dream was her favorite book and he said it was his as well.

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