Event Recap: James Frey Book Signing Event #JamesFreyinPH

Hi there!

(Just a heads-up: this post WILL be long because of the photos. I did not make a vlog for this event so I went all out with the photos. Enjoy!)

Last Sunday I got to meet the author of one of my most favorite series, James Frey! And no, Frey is (apparently) not pronounced "fray" like in pray but rather like "fry" as in, I'm frying some French fries for Philip J. Fry "fry". Yup. I know. MIND = BLOWN.

PART I: THE WAITING

Anyway, this book signing event must be my most dedicated one yet because aside from the fact that I had nine books to be signed, I arrived at the venue (Glorietta 1, Makati City) at 4:15 AM! And what did I get for arriving at 4:15 AM, you ask? Not chairs of course! I'm officially giving up right now. If arriving at 4:15 AM won't let me be seated in one of, like, seventy chairs, I don't know what will. And I ain't campin' out unless the author's in my Authors I Am Willing To Camp Out For list (which are technically just JK Rowling and Rick Riordan). And speaking of camping out, at about 1 AM of that day, I woke up and while checking Twitter I saw that 60+ people were already camping out since 10:00 PM of the previous day! (January 31) And I also heard that James Frey heard about this and paid the campers a visit + he bought them more than 5 dozens of J.Co donuts! Now that is an author worth camping out for!

Well, now. Enough about them. Back to me hahaha. I arrived at 4:15 AM and sure enough, lots of people were already there, sleeping soundly on their makeshift beds that they laid on the ground. My excitement went down while seeing this but what cheered me up instantly was the fact that I had a better spot in the line this time around, compared to my spot during Marie Lu's book signing event.

The line that quickly formed after we arrived, which made me thankful that I arrived at 4:15 AM. My spot was just outside J.Co this time around, a few meters nearer than where I was during #MarieLuinPH.

And by this time I think everybody knows what comes next. THE WAITING. Turns out that 5 hours wasn't such a long wait after all. I read Endgame during this time since I wasn't done with it by then. Also, just like last time, cool people were giving out free stuff! This time, (I'm assuming that) in honor of the $500,000.00 worth of gold coins you could win by solving the puzzle hidden in the Endgame book, they handed out chocolate coins. And also just like last time, some people in line were multiplying again! (If you know what I mean.) *sigh*

The Makati sunrise made waiting a bit more relaxing.

When the clock struck 10, we were finally allowed to enter National Book Store!