Signed By Author

What is it with these male authors? After Ken Follett and Malcolm Gluck, now Salman Rushdie weighs into the fray with a new book signing record claim!

Paper Cuts: Rushdie: ‘His Record Is Toast’
By Dwight Garner
Published: July 18, 2008
Who knew Salman Rushdie was a book-signing machine? The Guardian reports: Novelist Salman Rushdie yesterday claimed to have broken wine writer Malcolm Gluck’s record for book signings after adding his full name to 1,000 books on a tour to promote his latest novel. “His record is toast,” Rushdie crowed, in a letter to the Guardian. Gluck started the [...]
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According to Spanish news reports British thriller-writer Ken Follett has just beaten his own record of 1,600 books signed in one session with a new staggering record of 2,050 works signed in just three and a half hours at Madrid’s book fair. His latest novel Un mundo sin fin (World Without End) has sold 1.5 million copies in Spain alone.
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Jamie Lee Curtis signing her book

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Great shot of Jamie Lee Curtis signing copies of her seventh book Is There Really a Human Race?

Famous for her appearance in classic horror movies like Halloween, lately she has been concentrating on writing children’s books with illustrations by Laura Cornell.


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The news that J K Rowling has penned a hand-written prequel to the Harry Potter series has sparked a flurry of excitement all over the world! The 800 word storycard, signed by the author, is to be auctioned alongside works by other famous writers to raise cash for a dyslexia charity, closes with the words From the prequel I am not working on - but that was fun!

Source: CNN
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A Prairie Home Companion: Screenplay

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Garrison Keillor, creator and host of A Prairie Home Companion, has been drawing the crowds at book signings. There’s an enjoyable piece in The Muskegon Chronicle about his recent visit to Montague.

“I never thought I’d get to see him here. I’m a huge Garrison Keillor fan,” said Tracy Host of Muskegon, cradling a book or two for him to sign.

Seven-year-old Katie Allyn, a second-grader from Montague, brought her “autograph dog” for the famous guy to sign next to her friends’ autographs from school.

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I’m a huge fan of Joyce Carol Oates and this signed first edition copy of the Pulitzer Prize nominated novella Black Water is a real prize. One of the most prolific writers working in the States today, Oates is not only a novelist, but has also published numerous collections of short stories, as well as many other novellas, plays, poetry and literary criticism. This edition is the UK hardback, first published by Macmillan London Ltd in 1992 and is signed by the author in the only space available on the first printed page of the book.

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Life in cold blood signed by Sir David Attenborough

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Sir David Attenborough - voted Britain’s Greatest Living Icon in 2007 - has been touring the UK signing copies of his latest book Life in Cold Blood

At the Natural History Museum in London queues of hundreds of admirers formed around the diplodocus in the Central Hall.

Life in Cold Blood accompanies the BBC television series currently being shown which explores the fascinating lives of cold blooded species - reptiles and amphibians.

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There’s a wonderfully funny confessional article by Emily Grosvenor in the Publishers Weekly today. If the following snippet sounds familiar…then check out the full article!

I am a compulsive author-reading attendee, an obsessive reader and fan. People like me are the reason publishers send authors on book tours. Writers are my celebrities. I track news of them like other people follow Angelina Jolie. I sign up for e-mail alerts to keep abreast of their book tours. And when the writers I read go on tour, I am there.

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Cardiff-based Torchwood star John Barrowman signed copies of his autobiography Anything Goes and met fans who descended on Borders in Cardiff in their thousands. The meet and greet signing session on February 16th wrapped up a short tour up and down the UK to promote the book.

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This signed first edition hardback of All Things Considered by the poet Paul Roche was published by Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd. in 1966.

The dust jacket features a portrait of Roche by Bloomsbury artist Duncan Grant - a full account of their relationship and Roche’s life and work as a poet, classical scholar, novelist and translator of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Sappho and Plautus, can be found in his Times Online obituary published in November 2007.

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