Leonard Signing 1500 copies

[valhoun]

I've been in for 5 years exactly, I've was activated once for a year in the summer of 2003 to guard a base, but that was stateside. It wasn't too bad but I missed a lot of college. I missed another semester last fall when my Unit was sent down to New Orleans for a month. That was pretty crazy.

Anyway, I'm a Philosophy major and I hope to graduate in a year or year and a half.

It'd be nice to see Cohen in concert sometime, I've seen Dylan 9 times and hopefully his summer tour comes close to PA. It's odd that his current tour dates are in a lot of... well... less cosmopolitan areas where he usually doesn't sell as well as on the coasts.

Oh, also, in case anyone was wondering, when authors sign books, they don't get locked in a room with crates full of books. They sign a stack of blank paper that is then used in the printing process. So, yeah, signing something 1500 times is a chore but it isn't as bad as it could be.

[Tchocolatl]

It takes a trained horse to perform with success this act of war. Otherwise what if when not guided the horse turns around and the arrow hits your captain?

Very funny Thelma. I like your name, also.

Maybe those we-still-have-we-don't, have to do with the time they processed the orders and/or they received it at their local hour.

My take is that he will sign around maybe 50 pages and then they will reproduce them with some technologies to have 1500 copies, at last. But maybe I am too tech oriented, maybe he will sign 1500 times. Why not.

Not signing books at the event at the library? ouuuuuu he can never do things like other people..... It must be a kind of allergy

[tomsakic]

Leonard has his stamp, with his signature in Chinese letters for "Jikan" (the thing we saw all over Dear Heather booklet). Maybe he will say to his assistant to stamp all 1500 books:-)

[lightning]

I think they need to specify "facsimile signed" if it is mechanically reproduced. Otherwise they are misleading us and opening up themselves to charges of fraud.

[Tchocolatl]

Watch out! Indigo Alert.

A Japanese nickname in Chinese letters stamped in the company of an Hawaiian soul mate? The cream of the cream of asian exotism.

[suzanne_kauai]

with a chair,and a table,and a bowl,and a pen and guitar....
now it's the future.
may i please have an address or an email for him?is it somewhere on here,it's pretty important.
mahalo,
pray for kauai
amy latv
amyland2006@yahoo.com

[tomsakic]

It's on front page of http://www.leonardcohenfiles.com and its Credits page (http://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/authors.html):

Macklam Feldman Management
1505 West 2nd Avenue Suite 200
Vancouver, BC
Canada V6H 3Y4

mailto: leonardinfo@mfmgt.com

[lizzytysh]

Hi Suzanne ~

Welcome to the Forum ... it appears your stop here will be brief, but welcome, anyway . You're on my very favourite Hawaiian island, presumably living there.

Good luck with your goal of contacting and why you're wanting to get in contact with Leonard.

~ Lizzy

[stephanie88]

hello

i ordered the book a week ago - but haven't got any reply about whether it's in the first 1500. I'm not on the email list either -didn't know about it. Does not being on the mailing list mean you do not get the offer??
Help me

[jarkko]

Their mailing list was not fundamental in this. All who ordered the book had the same chance to get the signed copy. However, they did not confirm the signed copies unless the client asked that by email. Now, after all 1500 have been reserved, they continue to book advance orders and will deliver standard edition without the signature.
Now you may also order it from Amazon - their price is 15,72 USD (21,77 Can$ at Amazon Canada and 12,89 £ at Amazon UK)

[Red Poppy]

Don't wish to blow a trumpet but, after 9 books, some signed some not , I have never been given blank sheets to sign. Instead I've gone to my publishers - or sometimes a shop or distributor - and sat down and signed the books. It takes time but so does reading them. It's the least an author can do for his/her readers.

[jarkko]

We have got confirmation that Leonard will be signing
1500 BOOKS, not 1500 blank sheets!

[Geoffrey]

what does everybody keep talking about? who's signing which books - and why's somebody's signature in it so desperately important? come on, relax. put your energy into something a bit more creative and stop this worshipping of idols. you're all adults now, not teenyboppers. for goodness sake, people.

[lizzytysh]

Hi Valhoun ~

I hope you'll be able to remain Stateside. At least you're 'almost' finished with school. Philosophy has to be interesting for a major.

I wonder why the switch with Dylan to the smaller areas. Perhaps, he's becoming better known to a younger set and getting a lot of requests from those areas ?

At least we got two-mints-in-one confirmation on the number of books and manner of signing. Thanks, Jarkko. It made more sense to me that he'd be signing the books themselves, but hey, I don't know publishing up-close-and-personal, so anything could be the case, as far as I know.

There's an infusing of a person's energy when they sign something, Geoffrey .

~ Lizzy

[Tri-me]

I am hoping to gethim to sign a book for me the old fashioned way, in person. I see him coming to Fredericton to the Chapters Indigo in the Regent Mall. A girl can dream can't she?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4778962.stm

Author Atwood invents 'magic' pen
Margaret Atwood is hoping to avoid writer's cramp
Author Margaret Atwood has invented a remote-controlled pen which allows her to sign books for her fans from thousands of miles away.
Autographs are signed on an electronic pad while Atwood chats to a fan via a video link.

Seconds later two metal arms holding a pen reproduce the signature in the fan's book.

Atwood, 66, invented the LongPen after tiring of travelling round the world on book tours.

"You cannot be in five countries at the same time. But you can be in five countries at the same time with the LongPen," said Atwood.

The pen had its first public outing at the London Book Fair after a technical hitch delayed the demonstration by a few minutes.


Atwood's latest work The Tent is a collection of fictional essays

The Canadian author signed her new short story collection, The Tent, for Nigel Newton, chief executive of her publisher Bloomsbury.

In another part of the exhibition, the message appeared via the LongPen in Mr Newton's copy: "For Nigel, with best wishes, Margaret Atwood."

The pen's next venture will be to deliver autographs in copies of The Tent for fans in New York and Guelph, Ontario.

The idea for the LongPen came after Atwood signed for a package on an electronic pad.

"I thought my signature was whizzing through the air and landing somewhere else, and I thought as I was crawling through the night on another maniacal book tour, wouldn't it be great if I could sign a book like that?

"It turns out they don't work that way. But I asked some technically-minded people if such a thing was possible, and they said it was."

The gadget will be leased out to publishers for one-off signing events and tours.

Impersonal

"This creates the possibility of an entirely new book promotion event that will inject new life into the marketing of books and authors' relationship with their readers," said Nigel Newton.

Dajan Papic of Atwood's Serbian publisher, Laguna, said the device could help bring international authors - albeit virtually - to his small country.

"We are not always in a position to invite international authors and pay their costs," he said.

But some had concerns that it might end the personal contact between author and reader.

"I might do it if she wasn't in the same room," said Jeff Doorn, a small-press author who queued up at the book fair to have Atwood sign his book in person.

"But it's nice to have the personal touch," he added.

The pen can also be used to sign hockeysticks and the project director Matthew Gibson is working on getting it to sign basketballs.

Atwood's novels include The Handmaid's Tale, Alias Grace and The Blind Assassin.