Yup. My name's on every page. My card was glued to the box (name, addy, phone, e-mail, website! Ha! But what are the chances he kept it and took it back to Connecticut with him? He probably left it with a stage hand.

*sigh*

One of my best friends doesn't even believe my story! Luckily I've a witness -- another friend was with me the whole time.

In the box was a letter I'd written ahead of time to him explaining the "story" behind the novel -- how he was a large part of my continued inspiration to keep working at the story (fantasy family saga) over the course of more than two decades. I told him how I'd just about despaired of finding an agent at this point and had had a fantasy of handing him a "published" novel someday with the same story to tell -- but that if it never got published I still wanted him to know he'd been an inspiration and to show him part of the product of that inspiration (that's only the first of 5 + books in the series).

Anyway, there was also my return addy on the letter and I included a SASP with a note that said it'd be great if he'd drop it in the mail to let me know whether or not it had indeed been delivered to him backstage.

He probably thinks I'm a lunatic!

-- gar