Captain Kirk unveils yet another talent

Is there anything William Shatner can't do? He's a double-Grammy, Emmy, and Saturn award winner. He's a muscian, movie and TV star, and an author. He's currently starring on Boston Legal and on those Priceline commercials. He auctioned off his kidney stone for $75,000. Oh, yeah, he also played some dude named Kirk on some sci-fi series.

And now, it turns out, Shatner is also a speed signer. At last month's BEA, where he was promoting his new memoir "Up Till Now," Shatner apparently signed "an astounding 260 books in 25 minutes, leaving the assembled publicists slack-jawed". Wow. I guess all those years of signing Trekkie memorabilia at conventions has finally payed off. Well done, sir. Well done.

--Ladytron

So, you're not at BEA either?

This is a wonderful time for us low level peons in the publishing industry. We're not important enough to go to BEA, even though we bust our asses, work through lunches, stay late (but rarely show up early). So, now is our time to SLACK OFF, at least a little while the boss is hob-nobbin' it in LA for the rest of the week.

So lets treat ourselves to an extra smoke break, or, (gasp) a long lunch, surf a couple extra hours on the intertubes, and leave on time (or a little early) for once.

-Slunchie

See you in Cali!

I know it's Wednesday, and the week is half over, but come on. It's BEA week. We're all swamped. So the literary event of the week is, duh, Book Expo. Come enjoy the California sun and beaches by sitting in a dark convention center during the day and getting wasted on free booze at night. Here's to all of our inevitable hangovers. Oh, yeah, I think there's some panels and stuff too.

Do tell,

The Editor