Signed Copies of The DC Encyclopedia by Nick Jones (and a Trip Down Mixmag Memory Lane)

Yesterday on my way up to the annual London Book Fair I popped into the Forbidden Planet megastore on Shaftesbury Avenue to sign copies of my new book The DC Encyclopedia (cowritten with Melanie Scott, Matt Manning, Dan Brooks and Scott Beatty, and coedited by Martin Eden, my old friend and former Titan colleague who I got to hang out with at the fair, along with another old mate, Forbidden Planet's Rob Pontefract). Here I am looking rather proud posing with the signed copies:

Unless there's been a sudden rush of sales overnight there should still be copies available in store, so if you fancy a signed one, you know where to go (and thank you to the lovely staff at Forbidden Planet for looking after me). 

And if you're in that vicinity and happen to be passing Waterstones in Piccadilly, you may also find some books signed by me in that fine establishment, as on my way past I signed copies of The DC Encyclopedia, DC Cinematic Universe and Marvel Arms and Armour (and thanks to the Waterstones staff too):

One other thing: as usual on my way down the Hammersmith Road en route to Kensington Olympia, where the London Book Fair is held (until next year, when it'll be moving to the Excel centre), I glanced up wistfully at a nondescript corner building on the North End Road, just opposite Olympia. In fact this time I even took a picture:

It's an unremarkable building to most folk, but I still remember walking up its stairs over 30 years ago to the offices above what was back then a Chinese herbalist's and meeting Mixmag's editor and deputy editor, David Davies and the late, much-missed Dom Phillips, for the first time. I spent a few years thereafter in and out of that building writing for and editing various sections of Mixmag (before we all moved to Brook Mews North near Lancaster Gate) and can still vividly recall being hunched over an old floppy disk Mac, bashing away at the keyboard while music blared out of the windows and various degrees of chaos erupted all around me. There really should be a blue plaque on the place.