I autographed a robot

Before I explain the title of this post, let me first relay my very first autographing experience:

As half of the Ashleigh Raine writing team at my very first Romantic Times convention a few years ago, I was asked for an autograph. I was beyond the valley of thrilled. The woman was excited, too, as she dug through her bag for…

…???her palm pilot???…

I cocked my head sideways in wonder as she scrolled through her ebooks to find Mesmerized and then paged through to get to the Ashleigh Raine story, Magic In The Works. The whole time I was mesmerized by the magic of technology and calling my writing partner over to…uh…sign an autograph.

I’m still bewildered and amazed that my very first autograph was on a palm pilot. Turned out the woman’s palm allowed notes taken over the screen. I think she mentioned that she wanted our latest work autographed even if it wasn’t out in print yet.

Honestly, by the time Jen and I got through the official autograph signing, we were old pros, but that very first book did feel strange…singing on *paper* of all things!

As an added bonus to our original bewilderment, Jen and I had only scribbled our names on the palm pilot .pdf title page, so later in the conference, we asked for it back so that we could personalize it and stuff. What a way to get started.

…And well, back to the title of this post…

At World Fantasy, David Levine was getting robot parts autographed for a charity auction giveaway and as I was scribbling Ashleigh’s name, Jen’s name and my name, all I could think about was that this wasn’t the most bizarre thing I’d autographed and that it was ironic that other than books, the most memorable things I’ve signed have been purely geeky items and I absolutely love that!!!!

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