Fierce Reads Signing Recap + Giveaway

I'm baaaaaaaaaack. Okay, the blog has been slow lately. It has been busy, busy, busy over here. We sincerely apologize. BUT HARK, we come back to you with a huge giveaway sponsored by the lovely, lovely people at Macmillan.

Since I, Emily, am so cool and have fabulous interview questions and am a genuinely awesome human being (this is me being humble and gracious), I received a request from Macmillan to do another recap of a Fierce Reads signing. This one was at the coolest children's bookstore that I have ever been to, Cover-to-Cover Children's Bookstore. They have authors who do discussions and signing there sign the walls! Isn't that cool?

Image Credit: Cover to Cover's Website

One wall signed by visiting authors

The authors apart of this tour were Gennifer Albin, author of Crewel, book one in the Crewel World series, Leigh Bardugo, author of Shadow and Bone, book one in the Grisha series, Caragh M O'Brien, author of Promised, book three in the Birthmarked series and Marie Rutkoski, author of The Shadow Society.

So... let's move forward:

Interview with the Authors

Clockwise: Caragh O'Brien, Gennifer Albin, Me, Marie Rutkoski, Leigh Bardugo

1. How would you describe your books?

Gennifer Albin: Everything is woven, in Crewel. Time is goes through a loom. Everything is part of the fabric of life. My series took that phrase to the extreme. All 16-year-olds have to go be tested to see if they can work at the loom. My main character's parents have trained her her whole life to fail the test. But she didn't fail and has woven a moment. She is swept away to join the spinsters where they weave the world from a tower. The guild, an all male government controls them. Crewel is fierce because it sounds like a fantasy novel, but is actually science fiction.

Leigh Bardugo: Darkness is usually metaphorical. Darkness in Shadow and Bone is a place that is crawling with monsters that feed on human flesh. The country of Ravka, which is where the novel is set, is being left behind and their trade route is cut off because of the darkness. The main character is a loner, a refugee, and not good at her job. During an attack, Alina, the main character, reveals a power and wisked away to join the Darkling and the other Grisha. Shadow and Bone is fierce because of the setting - it  was inspired by Tsarist Russia.

Caragh M O'Brien: Birthmarked is about a teen midwife, who has to turn in babies to authorities into the other side of the wall. It is set in the future. Those inside the wall have technology. Outsiders are impoverish. The main character's parents are arrested. Gaia, the main character, spends the book trying to save them. It gets quite dark. In Prized, book two, Gaia goes to another society, where men outnumber women nine-to-one, but the women are the ones in control. In that society, you aren't supposed to touch the other sex, and kissing is a crime. No girl babies being born there and anyone that leaves dies. In Promised, Gaia returns to other society, where the people have been experimenting on mothers. Gaia brings refugees from the other society. It's very gnarly and dark.

Marie Rutkoski: The Shadow Society is about a girl who doesn't know she's not human. She discovers that she belongs in an alternate world where the Great Chicago Fire didn't happen and her people weren't wiped out. Shades, her people, are dangerous - they can become incorporeal at will. Darcy is a fierce character because she allows herself to be touched, when shades don't and she also allows herself to open up emotionally to others.

The author panel and some of the audience

2. Do you prefer to use a pen(cil) and paper or a computer to write?
GA: I use a computer for drafting, but I have notes everywhere, that are just scattered.
LB: Mostly computer for drafting.
CB: Computer.
MR: I sketch out scenes and fragments on paper, but I write on my computer.

3. What does your writing (typing) space look like?
GA: I have a lovely office with a rug, desk, two armchairs, but I never write there. I usually write at a table for four at Starbucks.
LB: I draft in cafés. I like the noise, but I write stories and books in my grandfather's old leather chair. (As Leigh explained this, the other authors and I found this romantic. Leigh laughed about that.)
CO: I write on my couch and then in the afternoon, I write on my other couch. As the day progresses, I follow the couches.
MR: I can't write in public. I must be able to close a door. I usually write in the corner of my bedroom with my desk against the wall, though at the moment, I'm living in Paris and writing in a beautiful office.

4. What is the most memorable line that you've ever written?
GA: Mine is from a book that's in progress. The line is describing a building covered cast-iron meeting with the heavens. I keep thinking, someday I'll come back to this!
LB: "The woods were silent in their grief."
CO: My favorite line is always the next line that I'm going to write. (We all thought this was a really profound sentence. I still do!)
MR: My favorite line is in my next project, that I'm not allowed to share.

Caragh O'Brien, author of Promised

5. When you first found out that you were being published, what was your reaction?
GA: I came home and told my husband. I got the call in the car in Kansas, in the middle of nowhere. I was very detached. It just felt so surreal.
LB: I made a "bleet"-ing noise in Whole Foods. I found out about my first offer while I was Thanksgiving shopping. The noise was somewhere between a shriek and a yelp.
CO: I danced around my kitchen and screamed. I couldn't believe it!
MR: I gave myself a gift. I bought the whole series of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and watched every episode.

Leigh Bardugo, author of Shadow and Bone

6. What are you working on now book-wise?
GA: The Crewel World Trilogy, though others are marinating.
LB: Ruin and Rising, which the the third and final installment in the Grisha Trilogy.
CO: I'm working on a new Young Adult sci-fi series.
MR: I'm working on a new book called The Winner's Curse. It's about an aristocratic member, who is the main character. It has duels  balls and a brewing rebellion. (I asked about attractive men and she assured me that they were included.)

7. If you could choose a character from one of your novels to be friends with, who would you choose and why?
GA: Loricel. She's my kind of lady - strong, tough, says what's on her mind. I admire older ladies who kick ass.
LB: Stermhand. He's from the second book. (I thought she would say Darkling - but only because she had this evil look on her face! Her reply, "No, no, no. That friendship would be like, 'Someone stole my parking spot, cut him in half!'")
CO: Gaia, because I want to be like her when I grow up. She's a great friend - loyal, smart and brave.
MR: I'd like to be friends with the whole gang of friends in The Shadow Society: Jims, Darcy, Lily and Raphael.

8. What's a book that you think is underrated?
GA: Maria by Mary Wollstonecraft
LB: Fleur by Louise Eldrich or Love Medicine by Louise Eldrich
CO: Something Like Normal by Trish Doller
MR: I am going to say books that more people need to read: Chime by Franny Billingsly and The Returning by Christine Hinwood

9. Is there a book that you would unread, so that you could experience it again for the first time?
GA: Harry Potter by JK Rowling, or Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery
LB: The Country Life by Rachel Cusk
CO: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
MR: The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner (Then we discussed how freaking awesome Megan Whalen Turner is and how she lives in Columbus, OH somewhere. I WANT TO MEET HER, GUYS.)

Marie Rutkoski, author of The Shadow Society

10. If you could meet any author dead or alive, who would it be and what would you do?
GA: JK Rowling. We'd have a sleepover where we braid our hair and become best friends.
LB: (She had a lot of trouble with this one.) Dianna Wynne Jones, we'd go to a bookstore together. Or a young Hemingway because he's hot. (Gennifer said that's he's completely crazy and Leigh replied, "But I don't have to marry him!")
CO: Jack London. We'd walk around his old home in California.
MR: I wanna pick somebody dead. (We all laughed at that.) Probably Shakespeare because I'm a professor and a Shakespearean. We'd go to the tavern with all of the writers.

11. What are you reading right now, or what will you be reading when you have the time next?
GA: The Diviners by Libba Bray
LB: The Magicians by Lev Grossman
CO: The Shadow Society, then The Children of Men by PD James (We discussed the movie and book then - I have not read it, but now I've been told I must read it and watch the movie.)
MR: Persuasion by Jane Austen

12. What 2013 book release are you most looking forward to?
GA: Landry Park by Bethany Hagan
LB: Prophecy by Ellen Oh
CO: Passed on this question - she couldn't think of one.
MR: Whatever Holly Black is releasing and Dracomachia, the Seraphina sequel

13. What's your favorite Halloween creature?
GA: Dr. Frank-N-Furter (From The Rocky Horror Picture Show)
LB: A dire wolf
CO: A bat
MR: A witch

Gennifer Albin, author of Crewel

14. What's a place you haven't been to, but have always wanted to go?
GA: Everywhere - all over the world
LB: Russia
CO: The Dawson Trail in the Yukon (She's a big Jack London fan! She finds him extremely fascinating.)
MR: Angkor Wat, Cambodia

15. Name a celebrity that has your undying affection.
GA: JK Rowling
LB: Joss Whedon
CO: Billy Collins
MR: JK Rowling

Tidbits from the discussion:

*Gennifer's favorite character to write was also the hardest: Cormac Patton, who is the villain of the story. Some people say, "he's vile," and others say "DOES HE HAVE TO BE BAD?" because he respects the main character. He's compulsively clad in a tux - Leigh mentioned a scene from 30 Rock with Alec Baldwin about tuxedos: "WHAT ARE WE, PEASANTS?" Tux jokes never get old.

*Gennifer has a masters in english literature.

*Gennifer went to grad school because she wanted to learn more.

*Gennifer and Leigh "murder trees together" with all of the paper they use. Worst gang of all time because they *JUST KILL TREES*!

*The arc of character development is Leigh's favorite part.

*If Leigh could be an animal, she'd be a dire wolf.

*Leigh's beta readers were a tv writer and a academic writer.

*Leigh didn't go to grad school, and doesn't consider herself an academic. She was an English major. If she hadn't been an English major, she would've been a History major.

*Leigh's best advice read out of genre.

*The Darkling was the hardest character to write for Leigh because he is so unknown to others, and so controlled that it was difficult to write. Her favorite is Stermhand, who is privateer from book two and is so fun. He has a way of taking things over.

*Caragh REALLY likes Wolverine from X-Men.

*Leon, was the hardest character from Caragh to write. There was one scene where he just walked away from her because he was so mad with Gaia at one point in book two. "How do I get him to have an argument when he walked away?" She said she had to get as angry as the characters.

*Caragh didn't write Birthmarked as a trilogy original because she didn't plan to publish. She didn't know it would be a trilogy until Macmillan offered her a three book deal. Her agent always tells her, "If everyone else has faith in you, why don't you have faith in yourself?"

*Marie was closest to Darcy. They both grew up in the suburbs of Chicago. She drew on her own experience from growing up in Chicago while writing. 

*Marie says The Shadow Society is not just a love story between Darcy and Conn, but also love for a city and love of friends.

*Maries's favorite character to write was a secondary character, Jims, who is a friend of Darcy. He likes roleplaying games and is super confident.

*Marie is outlining for her new series. She says that outlining is liberating and inspiration, which is suprising because you have to keep a timeline. She didn't know you could keep inspiration while writing that way.

*Marie finds it helpful to read her book in a different formats - on kindle, different font. Something about seeing it in a different form helps her see parts to edit easier.

Giveaway Details:
- One winner will receive all signed copies of Crewel by Gennifer Albin, Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo, Birthmarked, Prized and Promised by Caragh M O'Brien and The Shadow Society by Marie Rutkoski
- Open US/CAN
- One enterant per household
- Cheating results in immediate disqualification
- Ends 11/15/2012

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Fierce Reads Signing Recap + Giveaway

Hi, guys! Emily here! Let me tell you what I did Friday night!

Fierce Reads authors: Ann Aguirre, Elizabeth Fama, Lish McBride and Marissa Meyer were in Cincinnati, Ohio on September 21, 2012 for a discussion and signing. I cannot even begin to explain to you how awesome the event was!

A couple of weeks before the the signing, I was asked by Macmillan to be the featured blogger at the event. (I still can't believe it.) I was given the opportunity to interview the authors before the discussion and signing and given a set of the novels to giveaway!

Interview with the Authors:

1. When in your life did you realize that you wanted to be a writer?

Marissa Meyer: Always.

Ann Aguirre: In third grade, when I was eight years old, I entered a writing competition and made it to State Finals. I got to meet Shel Silverstein and realized that writing could be more than just a hobby. That you could get paid to do something you love.

Lish McBride: Always, though I had a stint where I wanted to be a vet. Then I realized you have to poke animals with needles.

Elizabeth Fama: I've always been academic. I wanted to be a professor. Even when in biology class, the best part for me was writing up the reports. That's how I knew.

2. What was your initial reaction to find out you where going to be published?

MM: I got the call from my agent and started doing some serious excited dancing and jumping around. When my husband, who was then my fiancée, came home from work, I broke down and sobbed with happiness.

AA: I wrote my first novel at fifteen, got my first rejection letter at sixteen. I, then, wrote a LoveSwept novel at nineteen that was again rejected. I wrote a historical novel at twenty-one that was rejected. The stories I wrote were constantly said to be "not market suitable" because they were darker and full of angst. After sixteen years of rejection, I wrote Grimspace at the urging of my husband. My agent at the time said no, so I got a new agent, who didn't even represent sci-fi novels. She actually represented romance, which is what I believe Grimspace to be. So we sent in the manuscript on my husband's birthday, which I thought was a good omen. I'm an international author, so I often conversed with my agent through the internet. She pinged me and let me know that someone wanted Grimspace. I broke down with excitement. Our housekeeper was worried that I was sick because of my reaction.

*As Ann discusses her long history with the publishing process, Lish says that she wanted to make a paper crane house of her rejection letters and then probably burn it.*

LM: As seen in the back of Hold Me Closer, Necromancer: I think I just ran around going, "Eeeee!" and then called every family member, friend, passing acquaintance… I couldn't afford to do much else. We'd just moved cross-country and I had only finished graduate school a few months before. Probably someone bought me a drink, perhaps even dinner. My friends are pretty awesome and they take me to dinner for things.

EF: When I got the call for my first book, I started crying while I was at Seaworld.

R - L: Marissa Meyer, Ann Aguirre, Lish McBride, Elizabeth Fama and Me

3. Why young adult novels?

MM: Because I started writing when I was sixteen. I wrote a knock-off of Lord of the Rings, only instead of a hobbit, my main character was a princess, who had to save the world. As I got older, my characters never did.

AA: My kids actually asked when I was going to write one that they could read, so I said that my next series would be a young adult series.

LM: I wrote my first book as my college thesis. I didn't even think about the age it was for as I wrote. If you can back up your information in a YA novel, like why there is a talking head in a box, publishers are willing to give it a try.

EF: Young adult novels have to be plot driven. Books changed me as a kid and shaped me.

4. If you could switch places with a character from any book/film/show, who would you be and why?

MM: Elizabeth Bennet from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. *scoffs* For Mr. Darcy, of course!

AA: Kaylee from Firefly. She's cute, perky, has a great sense of humor and is liked by everyone.

*Both Ann and Lish had trouble deciding. They said there were so many good characters to choose from!*

LM: Since we are in Cincinnati, Rachel Morgan from Kim Harrison's series. She's kickass.

EF: Irene from Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner. For Gen!

*Elizabeth Fama told me that Megan Whalen Turner lives in Ohio and I almost died.*

R - L: Me, Marissa Meyer, Ann Aguirre, Lish McBride, and Elizabeth Fama

5. What is a book you think is highly underrated?

MM: Entwined by Heather Dixon

AA: Dust Girl by Sarah Zettel

LM: The Kingdom of Xia series by Cindy Pon - Silver Phoenix and Fury of the Phoenix

EF: Catch & Release by Blythe Woolston

6. If you could claim a book as your own, besides the one that you actually wrote, what book would you choose?

MM: The Harry Potter series by JK Rowling *laughs*

AA: The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

LM: The Tiffany Aching series by Terry Pratchett

EF: The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

Marissa Meyer, author of Cinder

6. Given the choice, would you rather read the same book every day for the rest of your life, or as many books as you could with only one day to read them?

MM: Same book from the rest of my life.

AA: As many as I could in a day.

LM: First choice.

EF: As many books as I could in one day.

7. What kind of music do you listen to when writing?

MM: I don't really listen to music, unless I'm in a café while writing. I do have a playlist, though. I listen to it when I'm brainstorming, like when I'm on the treadmill. When I listen to helps generalize a mood for when I start to write.

AA: For fight scenes, a favorite of mine is Bodies by Drowning Pool.

*Audiences laugh, and someone starts to sing the lyrics*

LM: I don't really listen to music because I don't really pay attention to it when I start writing. The music could finish after thirty minutes and I wouldn't notice. Though all of my chapters are named after songs. When I do listen as I write, my music is all over the place.

EF: I don't listen to music as I write because it interferes. I can't hear my own writing when I'm listening to music.

Ann Aguirre, author of Enclave and Outpost, the Razorland series

8. What author would you talk to, if you could, and what would you talk about?

MM: Jane Austen, just because I want to know what she was like. She was an unmarried woman in a time where that was highly unusual and I want to know what that was like for her.

AA: Sarah Teasdale. I'd like to know what made her write such heartbreaking poems and if she died with a broken heart because she choose financial stability over love. (She refused to marry the man she loved because he was a poor artist. They both ended up marrying other people.)

LM: Charles Dickens, just so I could punch him in the face. And Shakespeare, so I could ask about Bacon and whether or not he wrote the plays.

*When Lish stopped by just saying I'd want to talk to him about Bacon - the entire audience, including myself, thought she meant the food.*

EF: Jane Austen. My other would be Megan Whalen Turner, but I already met her and had milkshakes with her.

*I'm still so jealous over this!*

Elizabeth Fama, author of Monstrous Beauty

9. What is your guilty pleasure?

MM: Top Chef. If there was a Top Chef marathon, I could sit around all day and watch it instead of writing.

AA: Video games. Just because there are more productive things that I should be doing!

LM: I don't really know if I feel guilty. I just accept that I have a problem. I love really cheesy Lifetime and ABC Family movies, like that Christmas movie where Melissa Joan Hart kidnaps Mario Lopez? Yeah, I own that.

Elizabeth never told us hers.

10. What is next in store for you?

MM: I'm working on Cress, book three in the Lunar Chronicles. Cress is based off of Rapunzel, only Rapunzel is a computer hacker, who the evil Lunar queen has locked in a satellite. I'm also about to start working on my national novel, which is a YA fantasy.

AA: I'm writing book three, Horde - that's spelled with an "H." This book is going to be the biggest, badest and most epic in every way, including page numbers. I'm also working on a young adult paranormal that sold as "Mean Girls meets Doctor Faustus."

LM: I'm working on a series that set in what is pretty much the same world as the Necromancer series. It's about a girl named Ava, who can set fires with her mind. She's being forced to work for a mob. This project is in dealing now. I swear, it's humorous like Sam's story. Though if you haven't read the book saying it's funny is like, "He raises the dead. Terrible things happen. Ha!"

EF: I'm writing an alternate history story that set in the present, but things happened differently during the 1918 flu pandemic. The public was divided into day and night. A night girl falls in love with a day boy. There is going to be some civil rights commentary, I hope. I'm also working on a historical fiction novel that I will probably be writing until the day I die. It'll be published posthumously.

R - L: Marissa Meyer, Elizabeth Fama, Ann Aguirre, and Lish McBride

11. What is the most memorable line that you've ever written?

MM: The last line in Cinder: "But they would be looking for a ghost."

AA: "All she had to do was the unthinkable. Stab him in the balls."

LM: "Even pure evil loves David Bowie."

EF: "I am a prisoner of the tides."

12. What is some advice you have for aspiring authors?

MM: You become a writer because you can't see yourself doing anything else. Keep your passion.

AA: Quit writing, if it's too hard. If it's what you love, don't quit. Those who say they want to write, but don't take the time to do so, shouldn't become writers.

LM: Don't be afraid of the blank page. Take it a page at a time. Use the time that you are given and have a schedule. Be committed and keep going.

EF: It's your work, it's not romantic.

Lish McBride, author of Hold Me Closer, Necromancer and Necromancing the Stone, the Necromancer series

Tidbits from the discussions:

*Marissa said if she has trouble figuring out how to end a book, she goes back and uses her first chapter to help her wrap up her book.

*Ann says her books are eighty percent action and fighting and fifteen percent kissing.

The audience questions about the last five percent and she replays, "Talking… Dialogue." We all joked about her math skills.

*Ann told the audience about Nora Roberts and how Nora said she's never read a book on writing because she would be pissed if she found out she was doing it wrong.

*Elizabeth wrote Monstrous Beauty on a dare from her kids. They dared her to write a young adult novel since it had been a decade since her last publication. They would toss ideas around during their jogs together.

*Elizabeth's daughter said to describe Monstrous Beauty as a combination of killer mermaids, Howl's Moving Castle and InuYasha.

R - L: Elizabeth Fama, Marissa Meyer, Me, Lish McBride and Ann Aguirre

These authors were hilarious, gracious and accepted my Sailor Moon cupcakes willingly. It was the first time I'd ever made cupcakes in my whole life. Marissa, Ann, Lish and Elizabeth were pretty much my test subjects. They went over pretty well… I think…

A huge thank you goes out to Macmillan for giving me this amazing opportunity and the novels of these lovely ladies to give away! And find the other Fall Fierce Reads tour stops HERE.

Now, want to win signed books by these phenomenal authors?

Giveaway Details:

- You may enter all giveaways, but you can only win one

- One Winner will recieve a signed physical copy of Enclave and Outpost by Ann Aguirre + swag

- One Winner will recieve a signed physical copy of  Monstrous Beauty by Elizabeth Fama + swag

- One Winner will recieve a signed physical copy of Hold Me Closer, Necromancer and Necromancing the Stone by Lish McBride + swag

- One Winner will recieve a signed physical copy of Cinder by Marissa Meyer + swag

- Open Internationally

- One Entrant Per Household

- Cheating results in immediate disqualification

- Ends 10/8/2012

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Kristina McBride's One Moment Lauch Party Recap!

On June 29 (my birthday, woo!), I, Emily, drove down to Books & Co. with my wonderful mother to meet Kristina McBride and get my copies of her book signed. The signing was a launch party for the release of her latest book, One Moment, which I read earlier in June. You can find my review HERE.

Kristina was very sweet, answered everyone's questions, signed books and swag, and took pictures. (Plus she gave me some M&M's because she knew it was my birthday!) Also there was Rae Carson, author of The Girl of Fire and Thorns, who I had met during the Dark Days Tour and Kay Cassidy attended Kristina's signing as well. (WHY DID I NOT HAVE THE CINDERELLA SOCIETY WITH ME!?)

Here are some pictures from the signing:

Some of Kristina's author friends came to the signing!

Top Row: Left to Right

Katrina Kittle and Sharon Short

Bottom Row: Left to Right

Linda Gerber, Jennifer McGowan, Kristina McBride, Rae Carson and Kay Cassidy

Kristina being introduced!

Talking about her life and writing.

Waving to her family. Her husband, son and daughter came to the signing! So cute!

Reading from One Moment!

She answered questions from people in the audience.

Getting ready to sign!

Signing my books, woo!

And since I brought my The Girl of Fire and Thorns copy with me, I had to get Rae to sign it!

(She did, because she's awesome and nice!)

And finally, Kristina's cool poster announcement!

My birthday was freaking awesome. I got my daith pierced, drove through a hellova storm, had dinner at Mimi's Cafe, my favorite restaurant and went to an awesomely awesome signing!

Thank you to my wonderful mother, Kristina, Rae and Books & Co.!

AND KEEP CHECKING BACK FOR THE CHANCE TO WIN A SIGNED COPY OF KRISTINA MCBRIDE'S ONE MOMENT, AND A SIGNED COPY OF THE TENSION OF OPPOSITES, HER FIRST NOVEL.

Dark Days Tour Signing Recap

Today on the blog, Emily is bringing a recap of the book signing she went to last night aka the best freaking night of her life. 

As you might have seen, I went to see Veronica Roth last month for her Insurgent Release Tour. It was wonderful. She's seriously sweet. I love her. A lot. My friend Brian and I have declared ourselves Veronica Roth groupies. It's great to not be in denial.

Moving on - Veronica was a featured author for the Dark Days Tour hosted by Pitch Dark Books. She was joined by authors: Bethany Griffin, Aprilynne Pike and Elizabeth Norris. So when I said that meeting Veronica last month was the best day ever, I kinda lied. BECAUSE I GOT TO MEET HER AGAIN, AND SHE SAID SHE KNEW MY BLOG. I haven't been a blogger very long, but to hear that one of my favorite authors knows my blog was probably the coolest thing that I've ever heard. There is another bonus to last night: RAE CARSON WAS THERE. Holy wonderousness, Batman! She wasn't a scheduled appearence, but since she's a local author, she came to see Bethany Griffin, with whom she shares an editor. I know this because I talked to her and told her she has to do a signing soon because my book for her was at home. So she signed some paper for me... Because I love her. I'm fangirling really hard just thinking about last night... Sorry!

Onward to pictures!

The stage for the signing. My mom, Brian and I got pretty good seats!

Liz was talking about Unraveling.

This is just in there because Veronica is looking at my camera... When I saw that after going through my pictures, I was freaking fangirling.

I don't remember why they are laughing... but Aprilynne's face... Hahahaha!

Liz chatting about my blog and Goodreads.

Cover-To-Cover has their featured authors sign the walls! How neat is that?

The other part of the wall.

Aprilynne signing the wall!

Veronica signing above the panel. She jokingly claimed to be egotistical after I told her she was the only author with a spotlight on their name. She's so funny! :)

Bethany signing the wall!

Liz signing the wall!

Group photo!

Now for the pictures of my books and swag!

Okay, enough of my bragging. Hope you all have wonderful weekend! TGIF!