Yesterday, the lovely JediPug and I went to a Troy Denning book signing at Border's, in honor of the newest and final installment of the LoTF series: Invincible. Besides being the author of one of my fav EU books, Tatooine Ghost, Troy Denning has written Recovery, Star by Star (New Jedi Order); the Dark Nest Trilogy, & Tempest and Inferno (LoTF).

Border's did a great job creating an SW atmosphere with store employees in costume (including DV providing some eerie breathing sound effects!) and SW music playing in the background.

A Border's employee made some introductory comments and mentioned that his co-workers constantly teased him about being an SW fanatic. Poor guy...I tried to give him some encouragement and told him to stay strong. After that, he passed out free posters of the Invincible cover art! Woo hoo!

Then Mr. Denning read an excerpt from Invincible, complete with classic-style Han/3-PO banter.

Next, he answered audience questions about his creative process, characterizations, and how he, Karen Traviss and Aaron Allston collaborated on the LoTF series.

Then came the book-signing. Some people had 4 or 5 books they wanted signed, and Mr. Denning graciously signed all of them, and he also signed the posters. He was really friendly and personable. I told him how much I like Tatooine Ghost; he chuckled and said he was a bit surprised when he was asked to write it, since at that time he'd just done Star by Star and was afraid he'd have to go into hiding (I think he was only half-kidding! ).

Here are some pics provided by Jedi Pug. Hope you enjoy!