ALA Midwinter Mayhem
Oh my goodness. I just had the Most Fun Weekend Ever at the ALA Midwinter conference. I met the Entire Writing World there, and took home a bunch of ARCs I’d been longing for. (Okay, I’m not planning on keeping most of these — they’re for my local librarian, who couldn’t go this year. But I’m reading them first, naturally, just to make sure they’re, um, suitable, or something.)
I don’t even want to talk about all the things I did. I’ll just post pictures instead.
First on the agenda: Hanging out in the local cemetery with author Jenny Moss.
Wait - is that Anne Nesbet's debut? I already bought it last week! Hardcovers rule.
Hannah Moskowitz's AMAZING book Zombie Tag was front-and-center. Hmm... I already own this one, too.
Hooray! An ARC I'm dying for! Savenaz Tash's The Mapmaker and the Ghost! But... it's not being handed out yet? *sobs*
Eureka! I finally hit ARC gold with Greg Leitich Smith's upcoming The Chronal Engine!
Time to hang out with the literati: Jenny Moss, P. J. Hoover, and Jessica Anderson Lee. (Maybe their talent will rub off if I squeeze in?)
Could I smile any wider? I just got two books signed by Michael Buckley!
And then... an ARC of Tom Angleberger's upcoming Fake Mustache. Which came with - you guessed it - a fake mustache.
And then the cows came home. With so many ARCs they could hardly lift the bags.
My kids think I am a Magical Book Fairy now, as I snagged the Very Best books from the actual HANDS of their most favorite authors. I’ll have to admit, it was a very Cinderella-ish weekend for me, between the books and the author-idols, and meeting all the sweet Penguin fairy-godmother-type marketing and sales folks.
Now, off to read!
01/25/2012 at 11:35 pm
Jumped over here from your Mom’s new blog…..she is right….You are Good!!! I enjoyed the visit and will be back.