Some highlights from author events I’ve been to recently:
Lee Child was asked which actor would be playing his series character Jack Reacher in the upcoming film. Child said, “The way things are going right now, the actor who will play Reacher has not yet been born.” That’s such a good line that I bet he must’ve stolen it from someone else, but that’s okay, since I fully intend to steal it from him if ever get the chance to use it.
Charles Baxter told a story about flying to France to receive a literary award. The award itself consisted of a fancy silver fountain pen. Baxter stuck the pen in his coat pocket and promptly forgot about it — until he was heading home and going through airport security, where he set off the metal detector. The guards wouldn’t let him take the pen through security, and he was forced to leave it behind.
D.J. MacHale and a fan hatched a plan to go to Disneyland the day the new Harry Potter book comes out, on the theory that all the kids will be home reading Harry Potter and it’ll be possible to go on all the rides and everything without any lines or noisy kids underfoot.
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