The 52 Book Club: 2025 / 2026 Challenge discussion

WEEK TWENTY-SEVEN: Happy July, friends!

Today's chat -- signed books and rare editions! Do you own any? What would be one rare edition or signed copy that you'd LOVE to own?

I don't think I have any rare editions, but I have signed books by John Barrowman, Jack Whyte, Ashley Newell, S.K. Aetherphoxx, Clare C. Marshall, Mike Perschon, and a few local authors.

I'd love to get autographs from Gail Carriger, Terry Brooks, Neil Gaiman, Margaret Atwood, Cassandra Clare, and Holly Black.

Rare books, eh? That depends on how you define rare.

We all have signed editions of my dad's memoir, but I won't mention it because TMI plus he just made stuff up or something about our family, such as a ludicrous thing about my career goals when I was a teen (I didn't go to church, was heavily into theatre, wanted to become a stage actress but he wrote that when I was in high school I wanted to be a priest...I didn't even know the church I grew up in had women priests, but they do--not RC).

I have a ton of signed copies, but the most special to me is from a dear friend of mine, Ivan Denton. He wrote a series of children's books, and gave a signed set to my daughter when she was a baby. He's passed away now and I'm thankful to have them as a reminder of him. Ivan Denton