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I’m standing inside the spacious auditorium within the McMinnville Community Center in McMinnville, Oregon, talking to Jeff Kinney as he scribbles on endless copies of his newThe brightly colored volumes are strategically laid out on a table, overlapping one another like neon turquoise roof shingles, title pages open and waiting for a signature. Apparently, theteam observed this efficient autograph layout technique at another event and has employed it ever since.
But really, this isn’t where my diary of the Kinney encounter truly begins. And you know what? I’m getting word directly from Greg Heffley that it’s actually. We’ll have to make some edits before Rodrick gets hold of this. I’ll contact my—um, well, erRewinding to earlier that day, Kinney and I properly meet at a hotel café to chat, while En Vogue’sblares overhead. We sit down. He orders a hot chocolate. I order a lemonade. We’re men of fine taste, clearly.Kinney is.
Honestly, this obscurity he speaks of doesn’t appear to be setting in anytime soon. My local Costco, for instance, has an exclusivestacked five or six deep. This doesn’t scream ‘has-been’ to me, but who knows. Fame is a fickle mistress. Or perhaps a Zoo Wee Mama, if you will. “My town, Plainville, has a population of like 9,000 , and nobody cares, really,” he adds. “I was the Cub Scout leader for like two years, and no kid ever mentioned theseries to me, and these were my readers! This one time, a kid comes up to me, and he goes, ‘What’s your name?’ and I said, ‘It’s Mr.
“I thought, maybe this is a way I can get my comics published,” he recounts. “I could sneak into books. I remember at the time, I was working at a newspaper in the North Shore of Massachusetts, and I drove by a sign everyday. It was a billboard, and it was a Benjamin Franklin quote that said ‘Well done is better than well said’. I was like, who paid for that? . Who are they trying to reach? Is it me? Just me? I couldn’t believe it.
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