Short story: A few weeks ago the wife and I were invited to the opening reception for the Omaha Book Festival. Unfortunately, we weren’t going to be able to attend any of the events held the next day. One of the featured authors was Owen King. I also had it on good authority that his wife, and fellow author, Kelly Brafett, would be there with him. So, I brought along my copies of Double Feature and Save Yourself respectively to see if I could get an autograph or two. However, it was not until I’d arrived that I realized/remembered that I had purchased, and therefore brought with me, a pre-signed copy of Mr. King’s book. There ended up not being a signing at the reception so I was able to leave my books with a colleague from the Omaha Public Library who said she’d tray and get my books signed for me at the next day’s events. So yes, I’d left an already autographed book with a friend to have autographed. Mr. King took it tottally in stride and you can see the results below. (Along with Ms. Braffet’s autograph in her book.)
Michael Sauers is the Director of Logan Library in Logan, UT. Prior to this he was one of the founding staff and Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. After earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Policy Michael spent his first 20 years as a librarian training other librarians in technology along with time as a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, a technology consultant, and a bookseller. He has written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and has published 14 books ranging from library technology, blogging, Web design, and an index to a popular horror magazine. In his spare time, he blogs at TravelinLibrarian.info, runs The Collector's Guide to Dean Koontz website at CollectingKoontz.com, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
Unless otherwise stated, all opinions are my own and are not to be considered those of the City of Logan, UT.
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One Reply to “Owen King’s Double Feature Autograph”
Got a total kick out of this!