This comes from one of our mods – bronzehariedgirl – who went to the book signing in Georgia.
Alpharetta, GA signing 9/14/07
Line cards were given out starting at 11:00a.m. I arrived at the Barnes & Noble store around 11:30a.m. At that time the line was wrapped around the side of the building, but moved very quickly. I had been in contact with Dan Coffer, the Community Relations Manager in charge of running the event. I went inside to find him and say Thank You for answering the many questions our members had about the signing. He explained how they planned to run the event. I left for lunch and came back to the store around 3:30p.m. There was already a crowd there waiting around. The store was putting together a scrapbook for Stephenie so I went to get my picture taken and then sign the scrapbook. After that I started walking around the store taking a few pictures until it became very obvious that I needed to find a spot where I would be able to see. Around 5:30 the store opened up the area where the Q&A would take place and I found that I had no choice but to move forward with the wave of humanity. I ended up standing, pressed up against a speaker, at the edge of the group sitting on the floor. I didn’t always hear the questions being asked, but I had no problems hearing the answers!
Video #1 – The crowd about an hour before Stephenie arrived
Stephenie came out promptly at 7:00 and began the Q&A. Most of the questions were things most Lexiconers already know the answer to. I filmed video of Stephenie’s answers to what I thought were the more interesting questions.
Video #2 – Question: Any significance to Quil imprinting on Claire?
Video #3 – Didn’t hear the whole question – something about Edward being controlling and things that have been said on the internet.
Video #4 – Question: Did the newborns feel guilty about killing all those people?
Video #5 – Couldn’t hear the exact question, but something like: Why did you make your vampires different? Why don’t they burn up in the sun?
Video #6 – A teacher asked, “What kind of student were you?”
After the Q&A the line was formed for the signing. After getting my books signed and speaking to Stephenie briefly I started walking around taking pictures of original shirts and a few costumes. We had Isabella Cullen dressed up as Bella in her prom dress and cast. She even had a bandage on her hand from punching Jake and she was wearing a bracelet with a heart charm and carved wooden wolf. There were a couple of people dressed up as Voluri – dracoangelica and iceprincess (sorry if I got this last name wrong, I met so many people it’s hard to keep the names straight) and someone dressed up as Alice. I found one group I had spotted while waiting in the crowd. They appeared to be a family, each with different sayings on their shirts. I absolutely loved the youngest girl’s shirt which said, “Edward, forget older women. Wait on me!”
When I left around 10:00 the line was still very long and several people were looking very tired.
Thanks for your hard work, BHG! You rock!
Alphie
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