I have a confession to make: I have had poor handwriting all my life. And this is in contrast to my father’s very fine handwriting. So yeah, I had an inferiority complex regarding my handwriting. My handwriting is and was poor enough that I started typing in the fourth grade, on my parents’ old manual Remington typewriter. Mind you, I still don’t use the proper fingers for typing, though I can type pretty quickly.
At the very least, however, I had a reasonable signature, and kept that through college and graduate school. Enter my first professional job post-master’s as an Academic Advisor at Wright State University in Ohio. At that time (1980-1981), students submitted their preferred courses on paper sheets which were entered into the mainframe computer by the registrar’s office. And every form students turned in — for registration, dropping or adding courses, etc., — had to have an advisor’s signature. With almost 400 advisees, it didn’t take much of the single year I worked at Wright State to completely ruin my signature, and it hasn’t recovered in over 30 years. The one thing I did right was to shorten my name to my initials (actually, this is really what I’ve been called for over half my life) which has helped the signature.
So, it is with some concern that I get ready to sign books — lots of books — as more and more people want a physical copy of Twin Worlds. And with the availability of the book via print-on-demand on Amazon, I’m buying lots of pretty color pens to sign your books, too!
Bring your copies of Twin Worlds on by!
