No Two Alike!

I’ve been spending recent days signing my name over and over again, signature sheets for the forthcoming Best of Walter Jon Williams from Subterranean Press.  It’s an edition of 1000, but I have to sign something like 1500 sheets, because mistakes can happen in production and sometimes my signature sucks a lot more than usual.

Though it has to be said that even my best signatures suck.  Penmanship was always my worst subject in grade school, and I learned to type when I was eight or nine, and from that point my handwriting got worse and worse, simply because I never had to write anything by hand.

Now, signing over and over, I’ve given up on legibility and I’m just trying to make the squiggles seem interesting.

They aren’t even consistent.  Each signature is a unique piece of visual art, unlike any other signature I’ve ever signed.  If you invest in this limited-edition hardback, you’ll get something that’s totally unlike any other thing.

And when will the book be available?  I don’t actually know, but probably when there are bookstores again, and book dealers, and conventions.

At least we might hope such a day might come.