Yesterday’s Reading Went Very Well, I thought

Several hundred people showed up at the Best Buy for the Coheed & Cambria Q&A and musical set. I did a reading from the novel as what was, effectively, the opening act. I have to admit, I was worried that about thirty seconds in they’d start shouting, “Bring on the band!” But no, they seemed to be listening and laughed at all the right places, so that was good.

Friday morning, off to Chicago.

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7 comments on “Yesterday’s Reading Went Very Well, I thought

  1. Congrats! Any plans on coming upstate to the Best Buy stores in either Vestal, Syracuse or Elmira NY?

  2. Hey Peter, I was at the Golden Apple signing last week and had a great time. (I was the fellow with the Supergirl comic who mentioned that Writing for Comics helped out me and my friend recently.) It was cool that you stuck around for so long chatting with everyone, and I would have loved to have hung around even longer but I was way late for dinner plans. Unfortunately I didn’t make it out to your writing seminar the next day, but I hope it went well.

    To any readers who have a chance to see Peter at a signing – GO. He stuck around for at least an extra 30 minutes after the signing and spent much of the time taking fan questions. It was less a Q&A and more a prolonged conversation with the man. Plus, we got a reading of Peter’s utterly hilarious take on “The Little Mermaid” for an upcoming Image one-shot. All-in-all a great evening.

  3. I started watching the repeat, but it froze about halfway through the Q&A :-(. Luckily I got to see your reading, and I really enjoyed it! I’m definitely going to check out this band now.

    Can’t wait for X-Factor #204!

  4. .
    I’ll try to catch the repeat later. Right now I’m working a ton of 12 hour days and, while I can check the computer on meal breaks and such, video feeds are frowned on at work.
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    Never heard of the band before now, but the idea of a five or so album concept work sounds interesting as a storytelling concept.

  5. Just bought the CD/book combo from Amazon and tossed on the paperback of NF: Treason for some Free Super Shipping. Whoot! I’m also excited because I’ve listened to all the albums and read the first comic book series and I still don’t quite get the whole storyline so the novel would be a bonus.

    Anyway, if people want to check out some Coheed and Cambria songs, I recommend their album “In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth- 3”.

    As for individual tracks y’all can hunt down, I’d say go for (digs through mp3 files) – deep breath – : In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth- 3, Blood Red Summer, The Velourium Camper III- Al the Killer, No World for Tomorrow, The Running Free, Welcome Home, The Willing Well IV- The Final Cut, Wake Up, Devil in Jersey City, Everything Evil, 33.

    Bonus! Here’s the music video for, directed by Marc Webb who’s gonna make the new Spider-Man: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvH-70bY2C8

    K, now you’re all Coheed and Cambria experts. Be fruitful and multiply.

  6. Well, well, I actually have something in common with Peter! (That is a good thing.)

    I am writing my first novel (superhero theme), and I have been doing readings from it at coffee shop open mics for months. (OK, so I am not as fast a writer as Peter, it’s my first novel!) And Peter, I know exactly how it feels when the audience laughs in all the right places. I did a reading last Monday, my on-no-maybe-the-male-hero-is-dead-oh-my-poor-unhappy-superheroine chapter, and I got those laughs, especially for the punchline at the end. When I looked up in the middle of the reading, the audience was RAPT. To quote Peter: that was good. It was my best reading yet. HAPPY SIGH!

    Oh, I should say I also know what is it like when I don’t get much response at all. Unhappy sigh.

    So I give this advice to anyone trying to write a book: try doing an open mic. It helps to hear your work as well as to read it.

    And Peter, I hope to hear you do a reading live sometime. Maybe one on the left coast. And I hope you get many more that-was-good readings.

    P.S. I often cheat a little in my readings. I play music sometimes while doing it. Specific songs have inspired several of my chapters.

    P.P.S. I do get tired of people asking, when I tell them that my novel is about superheroes, “Oh, where are the pictures?” It’s a novel novel, not a graphic novel! Art comes later, if I can make a buck offa this!

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