Autograph collecting is a fun and rewarding hobby you can do from any place in the world. But how do you increase the chances that your precious trading card or photograph not only makes it to the celebrity - but comes back signed?
This book walks you through the ins-and-outs of obtaining autographs in-person and through-the-mail (TTM) and even how to schedule your time at popular conventions to get the signatures you want. Based on years of experience in the hobby, this is the definitive guide to collecting current, living celebrity and sports figure autographs.
I never really intended to get into autograph collecting, but I was inspired by the author who is a close friend and made the hobby seem exciting. After reading Autograph Collecting Secrets, I decided to give it a try, at least once. Troy's methods and suggestions have proven successful for me on several occasions and now I have been assimilated into this hobby. Troy's book is full of ideas that one can use to successfully receive autographs from numerous celebrities from movies, television, sports, and so on.
Whether one is a seasoned collector, or a beginner like myself, Autograph Collecting Secrets is well written and detailed enough to get one started, yet it is also open enough that one can customize what and how one collects to one's own tastes.