{"id":4657,"date":"2010-07-16T19:11:24","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T23:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=4657"},"modified":"2010-07-16T19:12:37","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T23:12:37","slug":"victor-gischler-and-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=4657","title":{"rendered":"Victor Gischler&#8230; and Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2010\/z07162010victor_gischler.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"249\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last week I read a tweet from <a href=\"http:\/\/victorgischler.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Victor Gischler<\/strong><\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?s=gischler&amp;search=Search\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>one of my favorite authors<\/strong><\/a>) saying that he was going to do a signing at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comic-central.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Comic Central<\/strong><\/a> in <strong>Sanford, Florida<\/strong>.\u00a0 I decided that when I got off work I&#8217;d drive over and see if I could get <strong>Victor<\/strong> to autograph a couple of my novels.\u00a0 I&#8217;m really glad that I did.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Victor Gischler<\/strong> is a talented writer and an all-around great guy.\u00a0 Not only did he autograph the four novels that I took over (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0440241286?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=craizabls&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=0440241286\" target=\"_blank\">Gun Monkeys<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0440241693?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=craizabls&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=0440241693\" target=\"_blank\">Pistol Poets<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1416552251?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=craizabls&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=1416552251\" target=\"_blank\">Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1935562002?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=craizabls&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=1935562002\" target=\"_blank\">The Deputy<\/a><\/strong> &#8212; <strong>all highly recommended!<\/strong>), but he also posed for photos (I should have had my wife take a second shot since I appear to be sleep-standing), and spoke at length with each fan that came in.\u00a0 It was very clear that <strong>Victor<\/strong> appreciated each person who came in to meet him.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s always nice when someone you admire for a skill (writing, drawing, etc.) turns out to be as nice as they are talented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I read a tweet from Victor Gischler (one of my favorite authors) saying that he was going to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-books","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4657"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4659,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4657\/revisions\/4659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}