Yesterday was my first official signing for Inheritance. Mike Lee (co-author of the great fantasy adventure Darkblade series for BL) and I descended upon Opry Mills in Nashville, home of the Grand Old Opry. We had something of an entourage at the time as well, with Dan and Jackie Gamber joining us from Memphis for moral support, Mike's better half, Janet, and my PR whirlwing, Lee and the never-ending camera catching us in so many delightful poses.

Geoff Cutler, the Regional Manger of GW had flown in for the occassion and played the perfect host playing laying the smackdown in early - the previous store record for a signing was 12 copies. This was our target. The day was great, gamers had brought in their own armies to take on our undead horde and we had pens at the ready hoping to prove them mightier...

And the best thing was we both eclipsed the target Geoff set, comfortably setting a new instore record for signing. We couldn't have asked for more. Things went so well we got invites to do a repeat performance in Chicago!

The age demographic was fascinating - the youngest chap I signed for couldn't have been more than 11, the oldest up in the 70s. We also signed a stack for US Marines out in Iraq and some as competition prizes for the Mid-South GW stores. All in all a great first signing.

I want to give a big shout out to Lelon for making me feel so welcome - seriously, man, I cannot wait to see your model of Skellan! Lelon is one of these very talented chaps who can craft his own minatures from bits and bobs of other figures doing excellent custom jobs. The Eisenhorn he showed us was brilliant - Dan Abnett would have been so proud of it.

After the event Geoff whisked the entire entourage away for eats in Ben and Dave's where we were served by a very cute David who was decidedly female and NOT called David, despite the evidence of her badge...

Made it home and slept for 13 hrs straight - it's amazing the adrenalin kick you get from facing the public, but the come down is massive...

Roll on Atlanta!