I died and went to Book Heaven (ALA)
I'm currently flying back from D.C., and my plane has wifi, so I've decided to post about how I died and went to Book Heaven, i.e., the 2010 American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference. I got to sign finished copies of my debut Other for the very first time on Saturday, and lots of fabulous librarians, teachers, bloggers, and other readers showed up in line!
While I wasn't signing, I was running around, snatching ARCs (I mailed home 21 lbs. of books, and I'm carrying more on the plane!), and geeking out over authors like the fangirl I am. I am shameless, I swear. I randomly approached authors ranging from Libba Bray to John Green to Carrie Jones and waved my Other bookmarks in their faces, which they accepted with commendable grace. Okay, so maybe Carrie Jones saw it coming, since I've already fangirled her online.
If you didn't go to ALA, you didn't miss your chance to win one of four copies of Other over at Tynga's Reviews and All Things Urban Fantasy. And here on my website, you can still win one of 10 signed bookmarks for Other, along with a unique teaser from Other or the sequel, Bloodborn. They are shiny. Maybe shinier than the ones that got all smudgy from my fingerprints at ALA, since it was sweltering in D.C. People from the other Washington (State), such as me, tend to shrivel like slugs in the sun.
Ahem. Anyway, I will be posting another post right after this one, with more photos of the fabulous people I ran into/fangirled over/waved bookmarks in their faces, including a big batch of Tenners!
Originally published at KarenKincy.com.
While I wasn't signing, I was running around, snatching ARCs (I mailed home 21 lbs. of books, and I'm carrying more on the plane!), and geeking out over authors like the fangirl I am. I am shameless, I swear. I randomly approached authors ranging from Libba Bray to John Green to Carrie Jones and waved my Other bookmarks in their faces, which they accepted with commendable grace. Okay, so maybe Carrie Jones saw it coming, since I've already fangirled her online.
If you didn't go to ALA, you didn't miss your chance to win one of four copies of Other over at Tynga's Reviews and All Things Urban Fantasy. And here on my website, you can still win one of 10 signed bookmarks for Other, along with a unique teaser from Other or the sequel, Bloodborn. They are shiny. Maybe shinier than the ones that got all smudgy from my fingerprints at ALA, since it was sweltering in D.C. People from the other Washington (State), such as me, tend to shrivel like slugs in the sun.
Ahem. Anyway, I will be posting another post right after this one, with more photos of the fabulous people I ran into/fangirled over/waved bookmarks in their faces, including a big batch of Tenners!
Originally published at KarenKincy.com.