Joe Migliore wrote:Sweet! Very welcome news, indeed. Will you be selling and signing copies at Slapsticon?
Well, no, we decided to have the Grand Premiere Sendoff and Signing for the Book here in Phoenix at our local Gas Station and Eatery, the "Pump and Munch", because I'm sure some of the Hells Angels bikers who frequent there would love to read about Franklyn Pangborn's appearance in the Taxi Boy Comedies, then we'll be doing signings at the St. Pinky's Home for the Completely Sightless, Stupid, or just generally unable to read Subtitles, because, I don't know, I just get a gut feeling there's an untapped market there for silent films.
While in Bloomington, we're not going to bother with Slapsticon, why would one possibly want to sell a book on Hal Roach Comedies there, just sounds silly, but we will be doing a nude midnight book signing and barbecue at the Kinsey Institute highlighting the further nude pictures of Max Davidson that we dug up and put full colorized reproductions of in the center of the Book, as well as a free poster with the first 500 copies sold. Any residual copies of the book I have I just plan to take to the nearest Freeway Overpass and dump on the passing cars, but I will have my name and address inside each book so the people who manage to pick it up without being run over by other passing cars will be able to put the full purchase price in the mail to me.
Slapsticon!...........Please, we're professionals here, why would we be madly rushing to get the book out in May when I'm just going to be hopping around the East Coast and Midwest going to things like Cinevent, the MOSTLY LOST Symposium in Culpeper, and this Slapsticon thing in May and June? Like, who's going to buy a 522 page book on Hal Roach comedies with approximately 500 photographs and the most extensive Hal Roach filmography ever published at places like that? But I think my Agent has me booked to do a signing at the Nana Mouskouri Fan Club Convention in Boyle Heights in July. I'll have to order more books for that one.
RICHARD M ROBERTS