Veronica Roth B&N April 2018

I have gotten Veronica Roth before. While I usually don’t repeat celebs, I will get authors more than once. I first got Veronica’s autograph at SDCC many years ago, I also got her in Dallas for another book signing.

As always, she is friendly and charming and outgoing.

At this signing, she and her friend (an artist and I did not catch her name) sat in front of the crowd and chatted for an hour or so.  It was causal as they answered questions from the fans.

The signing went quicker than I expected. While a lot of their questions were answered in the discussion before the signing, the fans still got their facetime with Veronica.  When it was my turn, I name dropped SDCC.  Yeah, shame on me. She leaned back and said that was a whirlwind.  She hardly remembered any of it. I quickly looked disappointed and asked if she remembered me.  She quickly smiled back knowing I was joking.

I picked up my book and thanked her for coming to Texas.

AH

Veronica Roth B&N 10/23/13

Just because there is a buzz about this movie I decided to get this book signed.  I even had co-workers asking if I knew about this signing.  So I figured I HAD to go.

I previously got Veronica Roth at SDCC.  She and a few of the cast signed a Divergent movie poster.  I was one of the lucky ones. Again I only knew about the movie because of the buzz from the people that were standing in line with me.

This book signing was large.  I skipped lunch the day before to buy my book and get my wristband.  I got to the event at the requested queue time.  Once I found my place in line, I barely had a chance to look around before we were ushered upstairs.

While the line snaked around a lot, it constantly moved; which was surprising as you could see Veronica took a second or two with each person.  As the line moved, I watched her sign. She is a very pretty young lady.  When she leaned forward to sign she would appear so serious.  Then a fan would say something and a smile would light up her face. 

When my turn arrived, she looked at me and then looked for my phantom daughter.  I was one of the few males in attendance. And probably the only guy that didn’t have a daughter drag them to this.  She recovered quickly and signed.  I leaned over and said I was one of the lucky ones to get her signature at ComicCon.

She rewarded me with one of those smiles.  She mentioned it was a lot of fun.  I asked if she got to see a lot of the chaos and craziness on the floor.  I also added that the signings way in the back of the convention center are such a contrast.  She did admit is it was much calmer back there. 

She seemed willing to chat more but I was very conscience of the line and I really had no more to say.  I thanked her and left.

AH

Divergent #SDCC 2013

While I was standing in line for hours and hours Thursday morning, I was talking to people.  As shy and quiet as I am, I do chat.  I’ll make friends and build bridges…if the people I’m around have some societal skills.

As we are chatting and learning about each other, I heard a lot of buzz about Divergent.  I’m clueless.  I haven’t heard about the book nor the movie.  People were just as excited about this movie as Ender’s. Huh, so I file that tidbit away.  I‘m thinking, if I strike out with Ender’s Game maybe I can save the day and get an autograph from Divergent.

After, I get my Ender’s Game wrist band I do try unsuccessfully for Psych.  After several attempts they run out of Psych wristbands. And even though I should be sated with my Ender’s Game wristband, I greedily noticed there was still a line for Divergent.  I quickly walk over and succeed on the first attempt.