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The author visit was great. Here are some quick observations:

1. I asked him a “Duh” question: “Did you watch Dr. Horrible?” His response: “Well, yeah, I designed the van’s remote control.”
2. He incorporates some cool astronomy into the presentation. He had kids standing with models of planets and used a one foot=one hundred miles scale to span the library. He even quizzed kids on the speed of light and Proxima Centauri.
3. He, too, was intrigued by the cover of Generation Dead and cracked up when I told him the concept.
4. He also smirked when I admitted to the Haiku Project.
5. He knows his audience. He started the presentation with a fist in the air: “Long live Halo!”
6. Lots of cool artwork in giant banner form, done by concept artists from Warhammer and Star Wars
7. He does all of his own site design, including the Flash movies. I was like, “Okay, yeah, that’s cool” until we started chatting about After Effects and ActionScript. Yeah, he actually did the site design.
8. Great stories from his childhood and a great closer to his presentation. (Sworn to secrecy, much like Ally’s title to Gallagher Girls 3.)
9. Alan Tudyk (Wash from Firefly) reads chapter one of book two on thesoftwire.com (if you can answer the question correctly)
10. He told us about Book 3: Pirates of Hyperspace. Pirates, Hyperspace…what more does a guy need?
11. He is upset by peoples’ assumptions that boys/guys don’t read.
12. He is more of a Mac addict than myself and the Futile Ohm put together.

Pictures tomorrow (as long as people don’t go as crazy as they did today).

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