Anyone who is reader might want to take the time to look around the internet for their fav authers website. Many of them will offer signed bookplates around the time they issue new books. Famous people may do the same. I know that I missed out on former President Bush last fall and was lucky enought to land an Anne Rice when she was sending them! I dropped a few links to what looks to be current authors who are sending them, just so you get the idea of what I am talking about. Bookplates are stickers that are designed to be placed in the front of a book to make it autographed, but you can use them for different things as well. My Anne Rice was framed with a photo of her to make an nice hanging autograph item for me! Should you catch wind of a sports person doing these please hit me with a PM as I forget to look around for these my self, but sometimes the results are cool. I had two romance authors actually send signed books in Feb when I told them that I wanted to include them with my wifes Valentines present!

http://www.maryjaneclark.com/bookplates.html
http://www.ginikoch.com/freebies.htm
http://www.liswiehlbooks.com/autographs/
http://dubruiel.tripod.com/index/id15.html
http://www.diannmills.com/diann/bookplate.html
http://www.elizabethsims.com/signed.php
Those few came up after just a couple minutes of searching for free auto bookplates on yahoo. One of these days I will go through my books and see what ones, I can get signed!