Jim Pace

Local pastor defacing books at BAM in Blacksburg tonight!

April 27, 2010 | 6 Comments

This just in…

Jim Pace, a Virginia Tech graduate, long-time Blacksburg resident and pastor of New Life Christian Fellowship,  is claiming the right to walk into Books-A-Million in the First and Main Mall from 7-10PM, and start defacing books.  Claiming to have written one himself, he promises to try to restrict himself to signing his own alleged book.  As the evening progresses, however, he said he might extend his signing to books written by other authors and even some nicely produced calendars. Pace has repeatedly referred to this a autographing or signing.  Regional BAM management contests his use of those terms.  Here is an official statement:

It isn’t that we want to harrass this likely very troubled YOUNG man.  If his personal delusions include him having written a book, then that is fine with us.  Our issue is with his use of the term signing.  We feel that for that term to apply, the signature must somehow increase the overall value of the book that is signed.  We feel defacing is more appropriate as Mr. Pace is merely ensuring that no one can return his book to our stores, and that the owner would have to list it as used on ebay.  We wish Mr. Pace all the best and hope that he gets distracted and just forgets to show up.

Mr. Pace was unavailable for comment as he was busy trying out new pens.  We promise to continue following this story as it unfolds.

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