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A few months ago I read the following: ...the final London Gamer Geeks meeting of 2007 is tomorrow night, Wednesday 28th November, at our usual venue downstairs at the College Arms on Store Street, from 6.30pm onwards. I quite fancy going tonight, but just want to make sure it's still going, is the last Wednesday, and is still at that venue. Unfortunately, the website is a Yahoo group which doesn't appear to give any information to non-members. I've joined, but am awaiting approval. So the question is, do any of you guys go, and are you going tonight?
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There comes a time in a man's life when the events conspiring against him seem so insurmountable that his very life depends upon appealing for aid to his fellow men. This isn't one of those times. I haven't been kidnapped by the Russian maffia, mutant radioactive sewer rats aren't attempting to colonise my house by way of the toilet, and I don't need your help in cashing a cheque smuggled out of a third world country by my father, the former minister of defence. But I do need some help, and if you're someone who: a) has read Game Night; b) liked it; and c) has access to either a video camera, or a camera or phone that can take video - they you can help me. I want to do a promotional video for Game Night. It will be very simple. Just an introduction by me followed by (hopefully) a bunch of people each holding up a copy of the book and saying - in a few words or sentences - how much, and perhaps why, they like the book. So I need you to film yourself saying that and then email the resulting file (MP4 would be fine) to me. I'll then stitch them all together. I think a montage of you guys will be way more powerful than anything I could say. Quality doesn't matter. If the resulting film is a mixture of high-quality video camera footage and low-quality phone footage it will only increase its authenticity. I've created a mock up of where I will use the video (with a test file shot by camera phone with the size hideously kludged) here: http://www.jonnynexus.com/gamenight/index-ad.htmlAs you can see, the plan is to put it on the main Game Night page alongside the free preview (so the Amazon links don't get pushed down the page). What does everyone think? Anyone up for it? Needless to say, I would be very grateful for any clips that I receive. Tags: game night
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Firstly, my initial members pack has come back from ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha who I joined at Eastercon. It's got a rather nifty badge and membership card and a big thick letter that I haven't yet read. I'm rather chuffed. Now some of you might not have heard of ZZ9. Well if so, then I'd suggest you take a long hard look at your life and lifestyle and come up with some kind of answer. Preferably 42. In other news, we've had some confirmations for places where we'll be selling Game Night this summer. On 14th to 17th August, we'll be at GenCon Indy's Author's Avenue. Then on 22nd to 25th August, we'll be at the Discworld Convention at Birmingham. More news as I have it. Now, I'm off to the London Book Fair.
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You can't walk into a Kinkos, give them a USB stick containing a jpeg file, and say, "Please print that at a resolution of 400 dpi."
They'll um and ah for about half an hour, making you late for work, ask lots of questions along the lines of, "But how big do you want it? Is it A4?", explain to you that a jpeg is a bitmap and thus has no fixed size and then ignore your reply of, "I know that, that's why I'm asking you to just print it at 400 dpi."
But they can't do it.
At least, they can't on a Tuesday morning. They had no problem doing it with the same file last Friday lunchtime.
It's a strange world we live in sometimes.
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Hi all, Now that Esdevium Games are distributing Game Night, I'm looking to send sample copies of the book to games shops, the theory being that if they read it and like it, they might then order a few copies where they otherwise wouldn't (if it was just a line in a product catalogue). I spent a good chunk of last week trying to come up with a list of current UK and Ireland games shops (or at least shops that might sell games) and found it to be surprisingly hard. There are lists, but they are depressingly out of date (depressingly because it shows how many games shops have gone to the wall). But after a lot of phoning and surfing I came up with a list of 49 shops that are still around and hopefully still doing roleplaying stuff. And so far, even though the books would only have started to arrive yesterday, I've already had one shop owner phone me up to thank me for brightening up her morning (she read it through in one sitting) and to tell me that she was going to order some copies. Anyhow, what I want to do is find out any games shops I've missed. Below (in a cut) is the list of shops that I sent to. If your FLGS isn't on the list (it's in alphabetical order, so it will be easy to spot), I'd be grateful if you can give me its details. Just comment here. Also, if I've managed to get one on there that no longer exists or no longer stocks gaming stuff, again, please let me know. Thanks! ( The List... )
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