I have a independent local bookstore that actually seems to have major connections. They have a lot of author signings - like all month long, and have gotten some major players. You should have seen the line when Anne McCaffrey was in town!!! And I stood in that line too :)

I've met Butcher a number of times - at Comic Con (he has been coming the past several years), at a World Con in Boston, and at this local bookstore, which so far, he's signed at every year in April for the last four/five? Dresden books. If you want something signed, I could get it for you.