Happy day, reader friends! I hope your October is off to a great start. Can you believe it’s FALL already? Anyone out there besides me thinking about doing NaNoWriMo next month?

(I’m planning to lie down and see if the thought passes. If it doesn’t? You’ll hear more.)

This has been a super fun book-filled month. A couple of weeks ago, I attended a librarian mingle event at Bookpeople with some friends.

P. J. Hoover, me, Donna Bowman, Emma Virjan, and Cory Putman Oakes.

It was wonderful! The Bookpeople staff are so thoughtful and fun, and librarians were.. well, you know how I fell about librarians. *smooch*

(BTW: Come hang out with me and a ton of authors, librarians, and kids on October 23rd for Donna’s debut picture book launch for Step Right Up: How Doc and Jim Key Taught the World About Kindness.)

Last week, YA author and all-around amazing person Kristen-Paige Madonia was in town to talk about and sign her newest book, Invisible Fault Lines.

We were Apocalypsies together! Which doesn’t mean zombies: We debuted in the same year, 2012. And look at us, all grown up!

Author and writing teacher Shelli Cornelison gets a book signed, too!

Of course, I wasn’t the only one traveling around. Wish Girl also went to the National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. and the Texas Teen Book Festival in Austin…

This is my nephew showing off Wish Girl with some of the amazing staff of the Texas Center for the Book, Rebekah and Stephen!

And all of my books went with me to a very swanky event in Lockhart as well… but I was so busy signing books I didn’t get any pics! Not exactly a problem, right?

All of that is where I WAS this month. Next week I’ll post where I’m going to BE soon. Look for me in Austin, San Antonio, Galveston, and Houston. Details to come…

Oh, and I’m writing like the wind these days, and reading a TON. I hope you are, too.

BONUS! Here is a book I’ve read and loved recently:

Anne Nesbet has written a MG historical fiction masterpiece! READ THIS. NOW. You’re welcome.

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