Celebrity:.
So I stopped by the Alton Brown booksigning at B&N today. I was amazed at how many people showed up, almost too many in fact. 500 “tickets” were printed up in 10 different colors allowing people to line up in groups of 50 to have things signed and pictures taken. All 500 tickets were handed out and more people continued to arrive. I don’t think our B&N anticipated this much enthusiam for the Food Network Chef.
Mr. Brown however was very accomodating and very pleasant to all of those that arrived. Before the actual booksigning took place he talked about the book and fielded a few questions from the crowd as best he could. The line was absolutely ridiculous, and we sold all 360+ copies of his book rather quickly. I was extremely impressed with Mr. Brown’s patience and professionalism with the crowd. At one point, when offered a chair to sit down while signing, Alton replied, “I’m not going to sit, if all these people are going to stand then you better believe that I’m going to stand too.”
That rocks.
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So you work at B&N??
Cool. Great shots by the way!!
Seems like you had a fun time.