Yes, I'm making a virtual appearance in Bantam's virtual bookstore on Second Life. For those of you who don't know it, Second Life is... well, sort of like World of Warcraft without the axes, swords, and monsters. Our world, kinda sorta, virtually. Anyway, I'll be there this Thursday evening, in avatar form, doing a reading from A DANCE WITH DRAGONS and doing a Q&A afterwards. Proceedings will start at 9:00pm eastern and run about an hour. This will be a first for me, so it will be fun to see how it goes. Ah, 'tis a brave new world, surely.
If you'd like to be part of the festivities, get thee to www.secondlife.com. You can sign up there, download the software, and design your own avatar. (I've never done a reading with monsters in the audience before, at least not the sort you could tell my looking at 'em).
The virtual bookstore can only hold about sixty avatars, but the overflow will be able to see and hear the reading from satellite sites, and send questions via IM.
I've never done this before either, so that's about all I can tell you about how things will work... but if you live out in the bookdocks where I'm never likely to visit on a book tour, this virtual appearance could be the next best thing. See you there!
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and i hope robert baratheon,eddard stark,lord tywin and maybe king aerys are living too.
maybe only for SL.
Nice avatar, by the way.
Sigh. I keep trying to get out and it keeps dragging me back in.
Having had the pleasure of hearing you on the Feast of Crows tour, I know that will be a good time. :)
Cheers
to Georgia R.R.Martina.
Thanks
I've been coming to Boston every year for the past six or seven years. Check my Appearances page. Boskone has been one of my favorite cons... at least until they changed hotels.