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Post by Crack-a-lackin on Oct 14, 2021 17:42:24 GMT
I have quite a few, but my favorites are Henry Winkler’s Hank Zipzer series. He’s a very engaging speaker and generous with his time - he stayed until everyone who wanted one had an autograph.
I also have several children’s books I love signed by Bill Martin Jr.
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Post by jlynnbarth on Oct 14, 2021 17:42:30 GMT
I have a signed copy of Left Behind (The first book in the Christian fiction series) by one of the co-authors Tim LaHaye. Tim was a dear friend to a friend of mine that I used to work with. She was able to introduce me to him and he signed my book.
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Post by floridagirl on Oct 14, 2021 17:49:46 GMT
I do have several, mostly from scientific speakers I bring in to lecture as part of my job. The inscriptions are usually thanking me and their signature. I also have three books written by one of my neighbors. My daughter also had lots of Tommy DePaolo books signed when she was younger. Hands down her favorite author that she met many times.
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Post by padresfan619 on Oct 14, 2021 17:52:27 GMT
I used to work author events as a side gig so I have a bunch! Ozzy Osbourne, Cal Ripken JR, Daymond John from Shark Tank, Padma Pakshmi from Top Chef, Candy Spelling, and the author and illustrator of the Fancy Nancy series. The last one is probably my favorite because they were such kind ladies and the event was for kids so it was really memorable. The event planner I worked for will still contact me when she thinks I will like the author or celebrity she’s working with and invite me to come work the event.
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Post by MorningPerson on Oct 14, 2021 17:55:59 GMT
I only have two. The first is signed by the children's author Zilpha Keatly Snyder…………..My book is the Velvet Room which is my absolute favorite about an Okie family who moves to California during the dust bowl. How cool is that! I remember absolutely loving The Velvet Room as a child - definitely my favorite book of that era. Have you read it as an adult? I think I’ll see if our library has a copy.
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Post by Scrapper100 on Oct 14, 2021 18:02:36 GMT
I have several. Most are just a signature. I have purchased book boxes from a book group I’m in snd she has a guest author each month.
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Post by hutchfan on Oct 14, 2021 18:03:18 GMT
I have a few. The Nightingale signed by Kristin Hannah The One Hundred Years Of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens These are my favorites. Each year I try to buy autographed books for family members for Christmas. My grandson has books from Pete the Cat signed by the author and Jan Brett books signed. I have bought signed Dean Koontz for my husband. I bought signed Tim Burton items for my daughter.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2021 18:08:30 GMT
Yes! Mainly cookbooks. Giada x 2, Bobby Flay, Ina Garten x 5, and Alex G. The most special is a signed copy of a Wizard of Oz book by Roger S. Baum, great grandson of L. Frank Baum. Dh and I visited the Wizard of Oz area of the MGM Grand in 2000 and he was there with his new book. We had a good talk about WOZ (huge fan) and he wrote me a nice note.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2021 18:17:51 GMT
I have a signed copy of Jimmy Carter's book "We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land". We had a quick and endearing conversation about the Palestinian issue once I told him my husband was from Gaza and specifically where. This book means a lot to us and we actually have it on the center table in our foyer.
My mother passed on her copy of "Secretariat's Meadow" signed by Penny Chenery herself! We are a big horse family so this book means a lot as well.
But the book that means the most to me is signed by many. I have the book "Oh! The Places You'll Go" by Dr. Seuss that I purchased when my son was little. I have had his teachers since first grade (he is now 15) sign this book. Even after we moved to Morocco, I have had the teachers that I know he liked or meant something to him from each grade, sign the book and write something about DS. So there is English, Arabic and French in this book. My plan is to give him this book when he graduates from high school. He has absolutely no idea that I have been doing this all these years. I always get nervous when I have to hand over the book for several days to school staff because I am terrified they will lose it. But almost always, they love the idea of it that they are very careful with it.
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Post by leannec on Oct 14, 2021 18:42:48 GMT
Just one ... it is a cookbook ... Avec Eric signed by Eric Ripert ... one of my fav chef crushes
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Post by Skellinton on Oct 14, 2021 19:00:50 GMT
I have quite a few, but not necessarily because I met the author and had them sign it personally. Many authors on book tours pass through my local bookstore and there must be an agreement to sign a specific number of books as part of the contract in addition to meeting fans and signing in person. If there are leftovers after their intended destination (I'm thinking internet orders) they put a "Signed" sticker on the cover and sell them at regular price afterwards. I figure, if I'm going to buy the book anyway, why not buy the signed edition? I'm also in one of their book clubs and all of the books arrive signed. The one author I did meet personally and chat with was Ray Bradbury. I had a nice hardcover copy of "The Halloween Tree" and told him it scared the heck out of me as a kid. He drew me a scary jack o'lantern. Totes jealous.
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Post by Basket1lady on Oct 14, 2021 19:11:14 GMT
Diana Gabaldon put up an interesting post on her Facebook page about book signings. She was signing tip sheets. Those are blank pages that are interred into a book during the printing/binding process. It’s a lot easier to sign a sheet of paper vs 1,000s of books. She also discusses signing at book signings, signing books for a local book store, and signatures vs messages. It was pretty interesting!
I don’t keep a lot of books. We move a lot and it’s just too much weight in our household goods. I do keep the ones that are signed.
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Post by rgibson on Oct 14, 2021 19:25:00 GMT
I have two signed by Robertson Davies, my favourite author for decades now.
I was at a Christmas craft show and all the Best of Bridge authors except one were there so I got seven signatures in that cookbook.
I have Chris Hadfield's book signed as well as The Paperbag Princess by Robert Munsch and Walter Gretzky's On Family, Hockey and Healing.
I have a thing for Canadian authors apparently.
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Post by 16joy on Oct 14, 2021 19:41:10 GMT
only one Chris Rock
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Oct 14, 2021 19:56:33 GMT
My very first signed book was one of Val Biro's children's books about Gumdrop, a vintage car, from book club in primary school.
Run Baby Run, and Satan on the Loose signed by Nicky Cruz.
I have half a dozen or more of the first River Cottage cookery books signed by Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall.
Kevin B. Wilson (Australian comic singer - if you know, you know!)
DH is more into signed CDs and DVDs. He's got loads of those.
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Post by craftmepink on Oct 14, 2021 20:10:33 GMT
Yes, I have a couple from when I went to the National Book Festival, which is held yearly in DC. They have been virtual for the past 2 years due to covid, so haven't been able to meet any new authors.
Hopefully they will be able to hold an in person event next year. Usually takes place every September and is free, also has a separate kids section. There are so many authors you can meet and have your books signed.
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Post by 950nancy on Oct 14, 2021 20:22:42 GMT
One of our local authors was great at signing books. He illustrated the book The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. He'd tell the kids stories about his cat walking on the paintings he left on the floor and that is why the turrets were red on the castle. They had to cover up kitty prints. He always drew a mystical creature on every book he signed. Both he and his wife were authors and illustrators and they both came to the school for free.
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Post by peabay on Oct 14, 2021 20:46:20 GMT
Yes, my daughter waited on line to have David Sedaris sign a book for me.
I had Anna Quindlen sign a book for me a long, long time ago (like 30 years ago.)
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Post by danor98 on Oct 14, 2021 21:28:34 GMT
Through my son's 5th grade teacher, I was able to get a personalized, signed copy of Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam.
I also have a personalized, signed copy of The Peace Dragon by, Linda Ragsdale. She is a close personal friend of ours(my husband and I met through her). She was one of the wounded in the Mumbai terrorist attacks of 2008. She has dedicated her life to teaching peace to the children of the world. She is a remarkable woman!
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Post by scrappinwithoutpeas on Oct 14, 2021 21:41:37 GMT
* several children's books signed by a local author who we knew through church * DH & DS each have several books they had signed at various Comic-Cons - one of DS's includes a character drawing from the author and a personal note * DS & I each have several cookbooks signed by author, one with a personal note * a memoir that was a gift, but I think it was purchased already signed
ETA: a book by the commedian & actor Larry Miller - purchased & signed following a show; I also have a lot of CDs signed by the artists, purchased after shows at the Birchmere and the MD Rennaisance Festival
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Post by auntiepeas on Oct 14, 2021 21:43:05 GMT
I have two recipe books, a book of photographs (taken by an award-winning news photographer), a comprehensive history of the region we live in (hard cover, >400 pages) and an illustrated 150-year history of the daily newspaper for our region but they were all contributed to or written by my dh.
Otherwise, none.
So cool to see the photos of your signed copy of Dorothy of Oz @sunnycamom , what a special thing to have.
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Post by quinlove on Oct 14, 2021 21:48:09 GMT
I have a few -
Troy Aikman ~ he wrote a children’s book Ronnie Milsap ~ his memoir Joe Perry ~ his memoir
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Post by edie3 on Oct 14, 2021 22:39:53 GMT
I have 2 Jodi Picoult and Ann B Ross.
Do you actually read these books or treat them like treasures?
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Post by winniegirl on Oct 14, 2021 22:55:36 GMT
A few... Hillary Rodham Clinton Tony Hillerman Adiana Trigiani Sharon MacCrumb Jimmy Carter Mary Kay Andrews local (to me) author L.B. Taylor
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Post by breetheflea on Oct 14, 2021 23:13:44 GMT
Two from when I was a kid and the authors came to my school and you could stand in line and have your book autographed. I remember the author/illustrator of one book asked what animal you liked (I said rabbit) and he'd quickly draw the thing next to his signature. Then one day my little sister scribbled on it but I still have it. DH might have a few, he followed an author somewhere and if you bought directly from his website the books came signed.
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Post by Karene on Oct 14, 2021 23:24:51 GMT
Jodi Picoult - A Spark of Light Sophie Kinsella - My Not So Perfect Life Ruth Ware - The Woman in Cabin 10 Philippa Gregory - The Last Tudor Karin Slaughter - The Good Daughter Alafair Burke - 212 (Ellie Hatcher) Linwood Barclay - Elevator Pitch
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Post by birukitty on Oct 14, 2021 23:29:27 GMT
Yes I do thanks to a Historical Fiction event I went to a few years ago. There were lots of authors there and part of it was a book signing event. The authors I got to sign my books were: Hazel Gaynor-The Cottingley Secret, A Memory of Violets, The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter Kate Quinn-The Huntress, The Alice Network Susan Meissner-The Last Year of the War Margaret George-Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles I've never heard of the National Book Festival in Washington DC but I'll be sure to keep my eye out for it next year.
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Post by kelly8875 on Oct 15, 2021 0:19:58 GMT
I have 2 I think. One by Drew Barrymore and one by Diane Keaton. Both came from B&N. The Diane Keaton book I specifically ordered.
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Post by moodyblue on Oct 15, 2021 0:44:00 GMT
I have at least a couple hundred, almost all of them children's or young adult books. I went to a lot of conferences as a teacher and would come home with a bunch of signed books. Many are personalized, but in later years I would just have them sign. Some authors/illustrators do quick drawings when they sign.
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Post by lisae on Oct 15, 2021 0:45:22 GMT
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berndt. DH, who was working in another state at the time, heard it being discussed on NPR and asked my parents to go buy a copy and take it to a local signing. He gave them something he wanted the author to write and it was a birthday present to me because we go into Savannah sometimes when we go to Hilton Head.
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