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Belfast signing 3rd November


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Very, very awesome.

A queue started forming about an hour before the signing was due to begin. Then we started recognising people lurking at the back of the bookstore: we spotted Ron Donachie and Sophie Turner hanging out. Then George and Parris arrived and introduced everyone who had come along: Ron, Sophie, Maisie Williams, Richard Madden ("The Best-Dressed Man in Scotland"), Kit Harington and Alfie Allen!

After George signed the books, the cast agreed to sign them as well, leaving my copy of GAME OF THRONES emblazoned with many signatures. Many, many pictures were taken by myself and Silverstar (hers turned out a bit blurry, obviously a technical hitch). Seriously, dozens of photos were taken and will appear at some point (the Linen House computers don't have accessible USB or XD card connections, unfortunately). We got a fantastic group photo of George and everyone else who was there.

Ron Donarchie reported he was doing some horse-riding this afternoon, whilst Kit was clearly exhausted after three 17-hour days. Everyone was astonishingly friendly and approachable. Ron reported that he had devoured all four books already and was bugging George about the fifth one! Kit has reached AFFC and Alfie is in the second half of GoT and coming up on CLASH, and noted it's a good thing he's good with boats. Richard Madden was a very funny guy and bearing the brunt of much humour for being "The Best-Dressed Man in Scotland".

Funniest person of the day was Maisie Williams, who (amusingly) reprimanded Alfie for disappearing and holding up the signing queue at one point (for about twenty seconds), leaving him contrite in the face of some very Arya-esque withering scorn. All the cast seemed to be getting on excellently, taking the mick out of one another, happy to pose for photos and more.

A lady from HBO was there and seemed delighted with all the excitement over the books. She said they'd had a big talk with George to see how happy he was with filming so far, and he said he thought everything was going great. HBO seems to be running a lot of things past George to ensure the series remains true to the books and his vision, and HBO are very respectful of that.

We also heard that Lena Headey is doing great work as Cersei and her performance was nailing the character from the books superbly.

That's about it. We're back at the hostel to freshen up before heading to the pub. The meet-up begins at about 6 and Ron and Richard said they'd try to make it. Kit was clearly insanely tired, so he might not be along. We'll see who else makes it.

Everyone was brilliant. George and Matt Hughes (a fellow SONGS OF THE DYING EARTH author) was sitting behind a huge desk, but everyone else was milling with fans in the corner, happy to chat, have photographs taken and chill out with people. They seemed genuinely touched and impressed by the dedication of the fans present.

Awesome stuff. Photos to follow :-)

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Thanks, rimshot and Wert. Quite glad that George seems to be checked with regularly about things (like *coughcough*costumes*cough*) ;)

Cool to hear Matt was there as well. He had a fun story in SONGS.

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We had a great time at the signing and all the cast were so very friendly and obliging. They all said they were keeping their fingers crossed for hte series to be greenlit. All said that they were having a fantastic time and enjoying the various shoots. Richard said that it was great having George about for the filming. Alfie told me that the costumes are top notch. He also said "wait til you see the weapons". He also enjoyed the scenes with the horses. Awesome.

Heading back to the moot now, might see some of you there.

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Wow, look at all the new irish boarders!

Cool ~

I'm held up as per usual, by, per usual and ironically this time, horses.

Though I remember times when young and spry I would have driven there and back through the night (and drank). Ageing is a tough thing.

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Mauberly had a good observation over at my blog. Seems like Ron Donachie is taking his role as Winterfell Master-at-Arms pretty seriously seeing as how he accompanied all the Stark kids to this signing! ;)

EDIT: Those are some truly amazing photos Ran. Big thanks to Parris! Can't wait to see more.

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geez what a good-looking group of people. Maisie just seems ridiculously cute. And Sophie's so pretty! gah! I'm so jealous of all you over there!

and I'm so pleased the actors are reading the books. Very cool.

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Got another couple of photos from Parris that I'll post later in the evening, showing Alfie pointing something or other out on the Clash of Kings book he's holding. Looks like he was actually buying the book there to read it later.

Anyone have an estimate of how many people showed up for the signing?

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Everything about this is so frakking awesome that I don't even know what to do with myself. I am having multiple little heart attacks over here, just reading all this stuff.

Thanks for the reports guys, all the littlest details are much appreciated. If only I'd won the lottery yesterday, I would have flown right over. *sigh*

Thanks for the pics, Parris! They're fantastic!

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Guess everyone is at the moot right now? I'm expecting some reports as soon as it is over, despite how drunk you might be! :D

Yeah! Where are the inebriated posts?

:cheers:

Lucky sods... ;)

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