Who have you met in person?

If you go to an ANA convention or a regional show like FUN or CSNS, you cannot help but meet other authors. At my first ANA convention in Detroit in 1994, I shared a dinner table with Wayne Sayles and his family. Working for Coin World on the first day just about tripled the number of writers I knew at that time. At ANA shows in 1999 and 2000, standing at the CW booth, I met more writers than I could beat with a stick. A few months ago, I discovered that Dan Freidus lives a couple of miles from me. I already told my best Alan Berman story.

For all of that, the one writer I was most pleasantly surprised to bump into, almost literally, was David Lange at the Cleveland ANA in 1996.

I've met a few numismatic book folks.

Q. David Bowers - quite a few years ago.

James Ruddy - ditto

Ken Bresset

Rick Snow

Scott Tavers

That's about all I can remember at the moment.

I was gonna say i never had met any coin authors. (I've met plenty of historian authors though), but then it dawned on me i have actually met Chris Perkins the guy that runs the predecimal forum and he published coinbooks for a living.

Not quite famous just yet though...

I have not met anyone yet, except Michael, indirectly.

I would like to meet Tuukka Talvio someday.

I was going to say no one and then I remembered that Anthony Swiatek has written some books (although I don't have any of them). I talked briefly with him at a coin show several years ago. He was a very nice man and quite nice to the person I was there with who was a US Commem collector. I mostly just listened.

I once saw Michael Marotta.

I have met George Burns.....way back in the day. And believe it or not I flew COACH with Tommy Lee and Pam Anderson.