Cathy Berner (R) is the genius behind all things YA-related at The Book Willow and Teen Book Con, me, and then the extraordinary Aria Tatelman, co-chair for Teen Book Con!
Andrea Cremer (NIGHTSHADE) and I show off our purchases at The Blue Willow: RED GLOVE for me, and Ben the Armadillo for her!
The extremely classy Ellen Hopkins, who did NOT get a restraining order after I lunge-hugged her in my asplosion of fangirling.
As you can see, YA authors are VERY mature.
No seriously, we really are.
Okay, seriouslySERIOUSLY for real, we are. (L2R: Me, Rachel Hawkins (HEX HALL, DEMONGLASS), Andrea Cremer (NIGHTSHADE, WOLFSBANE), Joy Preble (DREAMING ANASTASIA, HAUNTED) and Stacey Kade (THE GHOST AND THE GOTH, QUEEN OF THE DEAD): AKA, the Paranormal Panel for 2011 at Teen Book Con in Houston!
See even more of the glorious Teen Book Con Action! – all these photos by the extraordinary Lisa Stultz!
I’m going to do a write up tomorrow, but for now, many major props to The Blue Willow Bookshop, Alief Taylor High School, Cathy, Valerie, the entire Librarian corps, including Harrigan the Librarian who moderated the Paranormal panel, every single student guide, parent volunteer, the very fine Katie from Mundie Moms and equally glorious Jen from Twilight Lexicon for volunteering and for driving loads of us around, and every single person who came out yesterday to celebrate books.
It was, in a word, amazeballs.
