Bwahahaha!

[annathepiper]

I just spotted this over on jim-butcher.com, on his report from ComiCon:

The charity auction raised a bunch of money for St. Jude's and the Pediatric AIDS Foundation. I realized when it was 2 minutes from over that I had completely forgotten to bring anything to donate for the auction, so I borrowed a page from David Weber and offered up a GRUESOME DEATH. The winner of the auction gets written into the next Dresden book I write (book 9), and DIES HORRIBLY! And they can even help choose how HORRIBLY THEY DIE! And it raised 3100 bucks for charity. Congratulations, Anna! (Pronounced ah-nah!) I look forward to GRUESOMELY MURDERING you.

DUDE! I totally want to be in a position where I can offer 'being gruesomely murdered in my next book' as a prize. :D

(And he writes good books, too! Now I'm feeling like re-reading all of the Harry Dresdens all over again.)

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[firni.livejournal.com]

After reading his blog entry, I had to look up James Marsters, because I had *no* idea who he was.

[annathepiper]

Heh!

(There's a big crossover between James Marsters fandom and the Dresden Files fandom--because Marsters reads the audio editions of the first few books of the series. Which is why, I daresay, people kept asking for pictures of Marsters and Butcher together.)

[firni.livejournal.com]

BTW, don't ever park a car that's popular with the chop shops in a Borg parking garage and expect it to be there when you get back:

http://www.finocchio.net/Open/IntegraCorpse/Before.html

I thought those garages had vidcams for security. Don't they care if some yahoo drives a fertilizer bomb under the building? Yeesh.

[annathepiper]

Good grief. O.O

[lyricae.livejournal.com]

"James: (gets off the stool and sets it aside) I'll just stand for these. (to me, sotto voce) But the first time someone grabs my ass, it's going right back on the stool. Some days I get sore, man."

*grin* I imagine that his ass is pretty hard to resist. I'm not certain I could resist the oportunity to grab it, and I'm normally pretty aware of personal space and social boundaries.

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

Having seen at least bits of the ass in question, because the man doesn't wear any underwear, I can guarantee it's extremely grabbable.

I did not, however, do so. :)

[annathepiper]

Mmmmmmmmmmm grabbable parts of James Marsters mmmmmmmmmmm.

:)

[waywardwords.livejournal.com]

Bwahahah.

I have never grabbed at James Marsters, although I did at least meet him once and managed not to go completely incoherent, which I consider an accomplishment considering he was sitting a couple feet away and complimenting me while smiling at about 5000 watts. :)

[annathepiper]

Yeah, that'd flatten me too! Wow. What did he compliment you on?

[waywardwords.livejournal.com]

Oh, it was just general niceties, but he did say I had a very pretty shirt, which, for someone who dresses very plainly most of the time, was a pleasant surprise. :) (I mean, y'know, he was hardly falling all over himself to profess my beauty, but it was a nice touch. ;)

He was so nice to everyone that day, really. It was at a con over in Bellevue a couple years ago.

[annathepiper]

I think I remember hearing about that con, yeah. :) I think poetry_lady might have gone!

[annathepiper]

Well, it IS the posterior of SPIKE. What can we say? ;)

I'm not surprised to hear that people kept wanting pictures of them together, though, since Marsters reads the audio versions of the Dresden Files books.

[kissare.livejournal.com]

That's awesome! It would be a total kick to be gruesomely murdered in someone's book. I would bid on that! Anna, when you attain the position of being able to auction off gruesome literary deaths, I am SO bidding! ;)

[annathepiper]

Hurray! Now I just need to write something in which gruesome deaths actually occur. ;)

[kissare.livejournal.com]

Yeah! We need some gruesome deaths! Write us some gruesome deaths! Gosh o' mighty!

[annathepiper]

*snicker* Not a single one in Faerie Blood, but there will be death in The Dove, the Rook, and the Hawk. Just not quite sure when yet. ;)