Reply To: JoCo Cruise Crazy 2: Get excited and talk about things!
I’ve been trying to put into words what it is that makes me uncomfortable about the whole idea, since really love Neil Gaiman and think I would probably love Amanda Palmer if I spent more time with her stuff (I love what I’ve seen of her so far). I think it boils down to, “too many, too fast.”
@angelastic I think it’s less a question of number of fans/followers than opportunities to see them. If you’re a fan of Wil, you can catch him at conventions and other events. JoCo and a lot of the other entertainers you can catch on tour. Neil’s appearances are rather few and far between. Our local indie children’s bookstore (Little Shop of Stories) won the Graveyard Book Halloween party contest, so he came to do a reading here. Tickets were limited to two per person and had to be claimed at the store. They sold out the day they became available before people with jobs could get to the store to get them (i.e. me). This was in part because people had driven in from other states to get them, and it was the first time in ages anyone could remember him doing an event in the Southeast.
(The sellout of tickets irked me on principle since I make it a point to support the store, and a lot of the people who swarmed in from elsewhere to buy the tickets have never heard of the store and wouldn’t be around to support it after the reading was over.)