I think pictures can say it all:
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| The view from my hotel. |
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| POSSESSION in the S&S booth! What great neighbors. (And a totally surreal experience.) |
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| After dinner by myself (boo hoo), I met up with people! Real people--like PJ Hoover! |
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| And Shannon Messenger. NO LIE. |
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| And my agent-mates and friends, Kirsten Hubbard and Kate Hart. |
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| Then we went to an S&S event: a dessert reception. That's Jo-Somebody (I seriously can't remember her name! Elana FAIL), me, Shannon, and my editor, Anica Rissi. |
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| Sunday, on the floor at ALA. |
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| Sunday night, socializing at the swanky W hotel. L-R: Michelle Hodkin, Jessica Martinez, me, Shannon Messenger, Carolina Valdez-Miller, Kirsten Hubbard, Kate Hart, Kari Olsen, Jessi Kirby |
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| Monday morning Bookanista breakfast. (Jessi Kirby, Carol Miller, me, Michelle Hodkin, Shannon Messenger) |
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| Monday: Jessi and I on the floor--by our books! |
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| Monday, I had a signing at Octavia books. This is the display when you walk in. Corey thought I was weird because I said the store smelled like books. But it did! So many bookstores smell like coffee. Octavia was books through and through. |
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| The group signing at Octavia. Me, Jenny Han, Jessi Kirby, Corey Whaley. |
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| Monday night, I had a debut author event with teen librarians. Here's the panel set up. Possession is in the center. |
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| The other debut authors: Top, Jenny Han, Corey Whaley, France O'Roarke Dowell, Michelle Hodkin. Bottom: Jessica Martinez, Jessi Kirby, me, David Hinton |
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| Me, signing for librarians. LIBRARIANS. The nicest people on the planet, BTW. |
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| The debut author books on the floor. |
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| Simon Pulse people at the debut author event. That's my publisher, Mara, me, Jessica Martinez, and our editor, Anica Rissi. |
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| Last day beignets. We stuffed our faces, what can I say?? Cristin Moor, me, Jessi Kirby, Carol Miller, and Sara McClung. |
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