This Monkey’s Paw

Already signed thousands of these for a super cool edition that I don’t know if it’s announced yet, am in the midst of signing all these boxes, and I have more boxes from a different edition winging my way now. Couldn’t do it without help, either.

Thrilled to have found an actually good signing pen, too. I mean, I dig my Retro 51s for events—their heft and smoothness are a balm—but for pure quarter-mile, smoke-the-tires speed, these are the best, for me:

So, one of these 1.0 Energels are good for about 2,000 signatures, at a rate of 2200 in 2.5hrs (when you’ve got a mountain of Buffalo Hunter Hunters to sign, you do the math).

Stephen Graham Jones (@sgj.bsky.social) 2024-11-23T23:27:08.100Z

And here’s the method we finally landed on

Multiply this by … whatever it takes to get to thousands.

Stephen Graham Jones (@sgj.bsky.social) 2024-11-24T20:59:06.083Z

Would post the results here, but . . . all these tip-ins have to go back to the printer, get folded and glued in. I probably won’t see the results until I’m walking through some bookstore (as, why would anyone mail me back my own signature, right?).

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