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Post by Wanderer on Feb 3, 2005 10:58:16 GMT 11
I dunno if this is the right place to ask this question, and it is a pretty geek question... but I'm curious...
Have any of you guys actually met Isobelle Carmody? What was she like? Were you able to keep your cool in her presence?
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Post by Miska on Feb 3, 2005 14:42:08 GMT 11
i havent but i no min did a while bak at a writers festival...and ruby and dani will be meetin her soon!
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Post by Clare on Feb 3, 2005 15:34:13 GMT 11
I met her at the Sydney Writer's Festival back in 2000/2001 with a couple of other obernetters (our first Sydney Meet!) I don't quite remember it anymore... we told her of the new domain name and she told us an amusing anecdotes about her disagreeable laptop that kept breaking. I remember thinking she was a lot more colourful than I was expecting.. wearing this really nice bluey greeny top (I was expecting black clothing and silver jewellery like the publicity shot on the pack of Darkfall). Oh.. and she's very kind hearted and doesn't like to disappoint her readers. Infact, I still feel terribly terribly guilty. We spent so long talking to her and taking photos that she missed her lift to the airport and she had to catch a taxi.  |
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Post by Min on Feb 3, 2005 15:59:57 GMT 11
I met her at the Brisbane 2000 writers festival, and also went along with other obernetters (the first BRISBANE meet! lol). She was fantastic. She did two talks, was a member on a panel/forum and signed autographs the rest of the time. It was fantastic. She actually recognised me - I'd written a couple of letters and sent her a postcard while she was in Prague that year. We were the first in line at the autographs, and stayed there talking to her while she was signing other books. It's where she told us that Domick obviously had something to do with Rushton's kidnapping, and that what happens in the end will be a surprise, plus revealed where she got the name Obernewtyn from (explanation is on the theories site) and a load of other stuff. Since then we've continued writing...I just mailed a letter off to her yesterday actually, telling her about many things including Sneding  |
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Post by brydie on Feb 3, 2005 18:26:31 GMT 11
i havent but i no min did a while bak at a writers festival...and ruby and dani will be meetin her soon!
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Post by Fiery Dragon on Feb 3, 2005 18:42:22 GMT 11
Don't I wish
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Post by Brownie on Feb 3, 2005 20:39:42 GMT 11
Brydz if she comes to brissy you and I will have to be there! Even if we have to camp outside the expo thing she is at for a week we will be there!!!!!!!! ;D
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Post by Dawny on Feb 3, 2005 21:08:19 GMT 11
I met her as well...
it may have been at the 2000/2001 Writers festial, because I looked at the pics and recognise some people from there that I havent met yet.
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Post by Clare on Feb 3, 2005 22:25:32 GMT 11
I sat next to a girl at Writer's Festival who liked Sara Douglas. **begins to get suspicious** I did say you looked familiar Dawny.
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Post by Miska on Feb 3, 2005 22:44:10 GMT 11
what? does that mean she'll be in brisbane?
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Post by Min on Feb 3, 2005 23:15:52 GMT 11
Better still, ask/beg/plead with your librarian to nab Ms Carmody while she's visiting schools?
All the details are on the AN ANNOUNCEMENT thread in the Mem only area.
*wishes she was still at school*
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Post by Knight82 on Feb 4, 2005 8:27:54 GMT 11
I sat next to a girl at Writer's Festival who liked Sara Douglas. **begins to get suspicious** I did say you looked familiar Dawny. Sara Douglas is awesome and certainly deserves her own forum anyone here with me? |
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Post by ~Dani~ on Feb 4, 2005 8:58:41 GMT 11
I am meeting her in March ;D
Am very excited 
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Post by Knight82 on Feb 4, 2005 9:13:07 GMT 11
Any Idea when she shall be in Sydney next?
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Post by Pink Pirate from Venus on Feb 4, 2005 9:16:21 GMT 11
No... But I'm counting down! 32 days to go!!!
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Post by Dawny on Feb 4, 2005 9:28:08 GMT 11
There is a Sara Douglass forum thing, but it split off from her actual board when she closed it down.
I'll give you the link if you like.
She isnt as nice as Isobelle though...
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Post by Talmina on Feb 5, 2005 18:01:41 GMT 11
i wish i had. am so jealous of dani and ruby. kayt why didnt anything like that ever happen at our school?
a friend of mine recently got sent a signed copy of the american version of billy thunder the other day along with a letter, about a fortnight ago anyway, i am so insanely jealous.
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Post by Miska on Feb 5, 2005 19:49:12 GMT 11
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Post by Smoke on Feb 6, 2005 18:04:24 GMT 11
Well I haven't actually met Isobelle but we exchanged a few letters a couple of years back and she seemed pretty cool from that. I know a lot of writer's wouldn't even bother replying.
I'd like to meet her tho.
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Post by ~Dani~ on Feb 6, 2005 21:25:45 GMT 11
I can't wait to meet her 
Only a month to go 
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Post by Miky on Feb 9, 2005 18:15:12 GMT 11
Wow! u r all so lucky! i am so curious to meet her, especially if she is so nice! How do u get her to come to your school? *hyperventilates at the thought...* I doubt she would come to a little maitland school though..... sigh. Oh well. How do u write to her? you talked about writing her letters. I just want to thank her for hours of entertainment and theorizing and cool oberfriens, for whom i never would have met with out her....lucky ppl who get her coming to their school...
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Post by ~Dani~ on Feb 10, 2005 17:52:14 GMT 11
Isobelle Carmody has been to my school before, as we have some signed copies of books
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Post by Timm on Feb 11, 2005 23:26:50 GMT 11
As do we. Judging by the age of them, it was several years ago. Maybe even a century or two! |
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Post by ~Dani~ on Feb 12, 2005 8:42:50 GMT 11
The books in my school library were signed in 1994
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Post by Cat-Eyes on Feb 12, 2005 12:27:19 GMT 11
The books in my school library remain unsigned. I could get them a signed copy of the Lenard Long OAM book though, but that's not fiction... It's paintings...
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