Authors Responding Via Mail??
ILoveToNap
A similar question was asked a few weeks ago however I did not see any
responses posted. Has anyone had any success with getting authors' autographs
via the mail?
Please email me if you have had a success with any and all authors!
Thanks!
Mike Berro
a decade. The autograph collector's forum on Compuserve used to keep a list
of which people (including authors) they've had success with, and which not.
It was very useful. I don't know if such a list is available on the net
today, but I'd be surprised if there wasn't one.
What with shipping costs, it's not economically prudent, but it's a lot of
fun. Generally I would send a standard letter (handwritten, of course)
asking if I could send a book (or two) for signing, along with return
postage. I would include a SASE for their reply. Even a reply of "no"
usually netted me a signature. The downside is that occasionally a book
would be mishandled (not all authors respect the physical book), so I later
switched to usually asking for them to sign a card or bookplate I included
in the first letter.
---Mike
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Scot Kamins
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> The downside is that occasionally a book
> would be mishandled (not all authors respect the physical book), so I later
> switched to usually asking for them to sign a card or bookplate I included
> in the first letter.
And now we're back to the dreaded "flatsigned"/laid in controversy.
[Sigh] Will it never end? [:: pulling hair in despair ::]
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Scot Kamins
Collecting The Modern Library 1917-1970
(because fanaticism is not limited to politics, religion, or economics)
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Rich Davis
of a hassle for the author as far as shipping it back even if you do arrange
return shipping. You can have your book damaged or never get it back at
all. Simply send a nice note along with your adhesive bookplate and an SASE
or International Reply Coupon (available at most larger Post Offices) if the
author lives abroad.
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ILoveToNap
Would you mind sharing who you have had succes with?
Thanks
Vince
Rich Davis
it would take me the better part of a week to name all of them:
Wilbur Smith
William Peter Blatty
Bob Woodward
Tom Brokaw
Steven Coonts
Rachel Ames
Nelson Mandela
James MacGregor Burns
Jeffrey Archer
William Shatner
Margaret Atwood
David Gergen
Louis Auchincloss
James Patterson
Peter Benchley
George Stephanopoulos
Barbara Taylor Bradford
Isaac Stern
Benjamin Bradlee
Steven Jay Gould
Gwendolyn Brooks
Sir Edmund Hillary
Mel Brooks
Dumas Malone (now deceased)
Helen Gurley Brown
Steve Martin
Art Buchwald
George MacDonald Fraser
William F. Buckley Jr.
Anne Rice
Vincent Bugliosi
Henry Kissinger
Dame Barbara Cartland (now deceased)
Al Gore
Mary Higgins Clark
Ira Levin
Jackie Collins
Joan Collins
Eli Wiesel
Alistair Cooke
Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
Janet Dailey
Daniel Ellsberg
Martin Feldstein
Leon Uris
Clive Barker
Bob Dole
Betty Ford
Dan Rather
John Keegan
Stephen Ambrose
John Glenn
George Bush
George W. Bush
Margaret Thatcher
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Carl Bernstein
Gordon Cooper
Wes Craven
Jimmy Carter
Clive Cussler
Hank Aaron
A. Scott Berg
Roger Bannister
Eugene Cernan
Bill Bradley
Davis Love III
Carl Sagan (now deceased)
Andy Rooney
Gene Hackman
Ken Burns
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Mike Berro
I don't mind, although I can't recall many that far back. Vonda McIntyre is
a sweetie, and always included a neat fractal postcard signed in gold ink. I
had good luck with Robert J. Sawyer, this was before his first book was
published. I got a signed card from Marvin Kitman (The Making of the
Prefident 1789.) Bruce Boston was gracious.
I tried William Goldman three times without a response. Thhhpppht!
---Mike
Annie Winkler
1) Do you send these requests at the time of a new release or just when the
mood strikes?
2) Are you contacting the author through the publisher or directly?
3) What do your adhesive bookplates look like? Do you actually stick them
in the book?
4) Ever get anything interesting back besides the signature.
5) How do you choose your victims?
6) Is your main passion collecting books, autographs, signed books,.....
Sorry if this is overly snoopy - I find it very interesting.
Annie
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Rich Davis
2) I send the bookplate to their home address.
3) I use fancy gold bordered report labels and I do actually stick them in
the book.
4) Yes, sometimes they'll write me a nice note or letter and sign it, or
send me a signed photo. Peter Benchley drew me a picture of Jaws the shark
and sent it along.
5) I try to go in alphabetical order if I can because I'm a meticulously
bizarre individual who has to have everything done in some semblance of
order.
6) I really don't have a main passion. I think I enjoy playing golf and
computer/Dreamcast games better than collecting but I collect the following
things in addition to running an autograph authentication service for $20 a
shot: sportscards and sports memorabilia; celebrity, political and sports
autographed items, rare coins and currency, Golden and Silver Age comic
books, rare stamps, political memorabilia, ancient artifacts, rare and
signed hardcover books.
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Lawrence Person
<prd...@zoomnet.net> wrote:
> Just off the top of my head I'll name a few. If I looked at my collection
> it would take me the better part of a week to name all of them:
>
<snip>
> William Shatner
Do you want Shatner to sign your Shatner books, or would you prefer the
author to do that?
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Rich Davis
have two signed copies of Get a Life. One of them is a signed first edition
I purchased from The Easton Press. Although someone named Chris Kreski is
given credit for helping Shatner with that one. One would have to believe
that Shatner is just too lazy to sit down and put it all together himself
because he is a very intelligent man and probably an excellent writer as
well.
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Travis Cossel
Ever heard him sing Tangerine Man?
Rich Davis
album back in the late 60s or early 70s. I doubt if it sold very well.
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Wjjenk
signatures-by-mail,so I won't repeat myself but I've had some luck since we
last spoke.
I recently exchanged mail with Sue Grafton who asked me to ship off books for
autograph and she fowarded a signed Christmas card together with her signed
letter.
Also, Nelson DeMille responded to my snail mail agreeing to sign a first ed. of
his first book! He lives in a nearby town so he suggested I pick it up at his
office.
This aspect of book collect'g is really turning out great and I'm more hooked
than ever. Good Luck!
Bob Riedel
>Hmm... If his singing is anything like his writing I think I would pass.
>Ever heard him sing Tangerine Man?
No, but Shatner's declaimed version of Elton John's "Rocket Man" on a TV awards
show -- in tux, with orchestral accompaniment -- was way scarier than Empire of
the Ants. "I packed my bags last night, pre-flight ..." Would that he had.
Bob
"You can't wake someone who is pretending to be asleep."
(Navajo proverb)
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paghat
<prd...@zoomnet.net> wrote:
> He's probably singing it as a parody (I hope). I think he put out a serious
> album back in the late 60s or early 70s. I doubt if it sold very well.
Alas Shatner seems really to have believed it was a good album in the
style of the era & he has never seemed to realize it was hysterically
funny either on purpose or by accident. The Nimoy albums weren't QUITE as
laughable & "Bilbo Baggins" even made it to about #51 in the top 50. The
album that equals Shatner's for laughable talentlessness was done by Kerr
Dulea made while his performance in 2001 Space Oddyssey made him a pop
icon. I saw him trying to peddle the album on the Merv Griffon Show & a
third of the way through the song he got a look of horror on his face &
ran off the stage & never came back on. So he at least had the epiphany
Shatner has yet to face.
-paghat the ratgirl
Rich Davis
I really did love the movie though.....strange as it is. Dullea is living
in Connecticut and sent me an autograph through the mail several years ago.
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LostLvs
> but it's a lot of
>fun.
No, no, collecting is supposed to be deadly serious business. Haven't you being
paying attention to all the discussions this year about copyright lines, bad
E-bay descriptions and so on? What's this "fun" that you're having?
Taking the tongue out of my cheek, may you all have a delightful and wonderful
holidays and much, much fun in the New Year adding to your collections.
Regards,
Rosemary Jones, los...@aol.com
co-author, Collector's Guide to Children's Books, v1-3
links to useful children's book collecting sites:
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