I have Meet-The-Author happiness. Garth Nix is a very nice and sensible person. He is intelligent and told me interesting things. When I told him that I am a huge fangirl he said "the world needs more fangirls."
When Seraph and I told him about our roleplaying game based in the Old Kingdom he said "lots of people have written to me telling me about their rpgs set in the old kingdom"
He told me that Abhorsen is a character name stolen from Measure for Measure with an -on changed to an -en.
I got excited fangirl photos. They are on my real film camera, so only people who know me in real life will get to see them, and not yet, becuase I still have to finish the film. Garth encouraged me to photoshop them so he was a disembodied head to "make it more interesting".
I also met Sheryll Jordan who is completely lovely. Like a really nice auntie. I bought her new book The Hunting of the Last Dragon and got it signed. She wrote "with thoughts of light" in it.
I won two books as door prizes at the seminar, which was wonderfully unexpected. I for Garth Nix's books Mister Monday and Grim Tuesday, I got them signed and my battered old copy of Sabriel. Garth just wrote "To Jenni, Garth Nix" but it's still awesome cool.
Heh. Excited fangirl strikes again. I'm going to have to make a scrapbooking page all about Excited Fangirl.
I am on a huge high from meeting Garth Nix and him saying that he was happy to meet me. _Squeeeee!_ Garth Nix!
What I should have done is had some sort of gift for him. Like a little handmade book with a story I wrote in it. Or a list of things I like about the books. Or a picture of my character in our Old Kingdom game. Or a little Sabriel doll. Oh well, things for Excited Fangirl to remember to do next time.
Posted by jenni at June 15, 2004 09:28 PM