of the HorseGirlTV t-shirt is…Butterscotch Pony! BP, please e-mail me at jess_burkhart@hotmail.com with your name and address. Yay and congrats!
Just a reminder that I’ll be at the Hampton Classic on Saturday and will be taking pics, vlogging and signing books. Come say hi if you’re in the area!
I’m in C-R-A-Z-Y mode working on RIVAL REVENGE (#7). Hope you guys are doing great and look for pics of Saturday’s event on Sunday or Monday. I think it’s going to be awesome!
An out take photo from my interview with Angelea Walkup at HorseGirlTV. More pics to come! 🙂
Tomorrow, I hop on a plane to go film an episode of HorseGirlTV. I’m superexcited to be a part of the show and meeting Angelea will be great. 🙂 I’ll try to vlog as I go and will share details of the trip when I get back.
See you Thursday!
Hey guys!
If you’re looking to run into me, come to the Hampton Classic on August 29th! I’ll be there on Kids’ Day doing interviews and probably signing books. If you’re under 12, you get in for free, which is totally awesome.
I’ll be there all day, so I hope if you live in or near the Bridgehampton area that you’ll come on over. 🙂 It’ll be fun!
The Website for the 2009 Decatur Book Festival is up and fully functional!
Specifically, check out my presentation on Saturday. I’m also loving the gorilla on my page. Hee hee. Kinda awesome.
I’m excited to be presenting on the Children’s Stage from 2:30-3pm.
Thanks so much to everyone at the DBF for having me. 🙂
Big event announcement! I’m stealing this from Mandy Hubbard’s blog:
Participating Authors:
Lauren Barnholdt, author of Two-Way Street, The Secret Identity of Devon Delaney, Four Truths and Lie, and others
Sarah Cross, author of Dull Boy
Erin Dionne, author of Models Don’t Eat Chocolate Cookies
Heather Duffy-Stone, author of This is What I Want to Tell you
Mandy Hubbard, author of Prada and Prejudice
Julie Linker, author of Crowned, Disenchanted Princess
Sarah MacLean, author of The Season
Mari Mancusi, author of Boys that Bite, Girls that Growl, Stake That!, Gamer Girl and others
Michelle Zink, author of Prophecy of the Sisters
I’m hoping to go support my author friends, especially Lauren Barnholdt. Because, you know, we’re Barnhart. FTW! 🙂
When I got an e-mail from Angelea Walkup, I was sooo excited! Angelea is the host of HorseGirlTV and it’s one of the coolest, most innovative programs for people who love horses.
To explain about HorseGirlTV, I’m borrowing this directly from Angelea’s Website:
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Mission
The mission at HorseGirlTV® is to educate the equine community while simultaneous entertaining and educating kids, families and mainstream audiences exposing the wonderful world of horses to the world thus enriching and expanding our industry. HorseGirlTV’s goal with is to continually create unique, quality equine entertainment for the wired generation! Tune in. Tack up.®
About Our Host
As a life long equestrian, Angelea (HorseGirlTV’s CEO or Chief Equine Officer!) has not only ridden and trained but she has successfully competed in Dressage through Grand Prix earning both her USDF Silver and Gold Medals. Angelea’s post university career found her behind an illuminated computer screen working in Internet technologies with online communities. She turned in her full-time keyboard with her companies successful acquisition by a major Internet brand and is now focusing her energies on maximizing the emerging world of new media for horse lovers.
I’ve been a fan of the show for a while and am thrilled that Angelea has asked me to come on and talk about my journey from rider to writer. I’m going to her farm in North Carolina in August to shoot and I’ll be vlogging from there. 🙂 We’ll probably *both* be vlogging, LOL, since Angelea is as into technology as I am.
When the show airs, it’ll be available online and as an iPod download, which is super cool. I’ll be sure to let everyone know when we get an airdate.
Thanks in advance to Angelea and yay for HorseGirlTV! 🙂
All about Libba Bray’s B&N event and how I back up danced for her. Yes, I did. *blushes* In front of Holly Black, Cassie Clare, Robin Wasserman and Barry Goldblatt.
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Thankfully, none of my friends were there to capture the video on camera though other people were….
This is a quick note to all NY, NJ and New England teachers/librarians/Pony Club DCs:
I’m currently scheduling school, library and Pony Club visits for fall 2009 and spring 2010. There are some details on my Website, but please e-mail (jessica [at] jessicaburkhart [dot]) come for full info. I live in New York City and am willing to travel to visit your students.
Yes, I am happy to report that the PR Ninja will be suiting up again to tackle New York! Woo!
Happy summer!
A pic snapped by Lauren Barnholdt’s Boy of LB taking pics of us on the BEA panel. (I shamelessly stole this pic and a couple more (noted below) from L’s Twitter.) Left to right: Robyn, me, Julia DeVillers, Maureen Johnson, Sarah Mlynowski.
Another pic taken by Lauren of the BEA panel. The woman on my left is the technician who saved us all with a super important power cord for Robyn’s Power Point.
I almost died when I saw the cover of BEST ENEMIES at the S&S booth on this board. So cool! 🙂
Editor Kate and me at drinks with Lauren Barnholdt (Team Barnhart!) and her Boy. So fun! Much to EK’s dismay, after Lauren snapped that pic with her iPhone she Tweeted it. EK is kinda anti-Twitter. Just kind of. 😉
A blurry pic of a board at BEA that announces the panel line ups. Driving Success with Teens and Tweens: Authors Share Online Success Stories was my panel.
Well, look who it is! THE Kaleb Nation signing copies of his book and chatting with David Levithan and Maureen Johnson.
Almost to the Simon & Schuster booth. The crowd was insane.
I’ve barely been home since Thursday and have had nooo time to blog. A quick run down of Book Expo America 2009 and the NYC Teen Author Carnival *needs* telling. So…
Thursday–NYC Teen Author Carnival
This was hosted by three superawesome teens–Devyn, Mitali and Korianne. It was a fun, crazy two hours of Q&A, meeting readers, signing books and mingling with authors. It was my first NYC author event, so I was nervous before I got there. But everyone was relaxed and there to have fun. It *was* a carnival theme, after all.
I spent time chatting with Melissa Walker, Sarah MacLean, Pam Bachorz, Libba Bray, Micol and David Ostow, Aimee Friedman, Sarah Cross, Jenny Han, PG Kain, Taylor Morris, Carolyn MacCollough, Robyn Schneider, Michelle Zink, Beckie Weinheimer and Lauren Barnholdt. Almost all of them were Internet friends or people I “knew” through some various online channel. So cool to meet them in person.
After the carnival, Lauren and her Boy, EK and I went out for drinks. We had so much fun and I already knew from emailing and texting that I’d like Lauren in person, but she was even cooler–if that’s possible! There will most def be future Barnhart events, so stay tuned. 🙂
Friday–Book Expo America, day one
The Javits Center is HUGE. It has to be said right away. I thought the crowd would be scary and overwhelming, but it was actually the opposite. It was fun to be around so many people who were there with a love for books. I met up with Robyn in the morning and we hurried to get in line for signings for Ally Carter and Sarah MacLean. We got our books, then ran into Lauren and her Boy.
We spent a couple of minutes chatting with Kaleb and wished we had more time, but Kaleb was super busy (he had a signing line, hello) and everyone’s schedules were a mess. (But Kaleb, it was so great to finally meet and come back to NYC soon so we can hang out for real!)
Robyn had a meeting, so LB, her Boy and I wandered the floor for a while and checked out the various booths.
Lauren and I went to the S&S booth to check it out and ran into a lot of our S&S friends. Lauren had to run off to a business lunch, so I spent the rest of the day hanging out with the super fab LA. I loved that we both had enough of the BEA noise/crazy atmosphere at the exact same time and were like, “let’s go hijack an empty meeting room and chill for a while!”
After being at BEA from 9-5, I was exhausted. I got home, ate, looked over notes for my panel and crashed by 8:30.
Saturday–Book Expo America, day two
My panel started at 9:30 and it was exciting to be sitting with Maureen Johnson, Julia DeVillers, Sarah Mlynowski and Robyn Schneider. EK, Nova, LB and a few other people I knew came to the panel, which was super sweet for them to get up early on a Sat and come. I also got to meet LiveJournal friend Jenny Moss. So cool! Lauren took more pics of the panel with Robyn’s camera, so I’ll post when R puts those online.
After the panel, I left BEA to work for a while and then headed off to the S&S party. It was amazing! I got to meet a couple of editors at Pulse that I hadn’t met before and chatted with other S&S authors. Plus, I got to see publishing friends I hadn’t seen since January and it was so good to say hi and see them again. S&S picked a great place for the party and I think everyone was having fun. Perfect way to end my BEA experience.
I probably forgot a lot, since the days were packed, but those are definitely some of the highlights. I’ll keep posting about it next week if/when I think of things.
I’m forcing myself to ignore the shiny books from BEA until I have at least a few pages of the chapter by chapter outline of LITTLE WHITE LIES down. Will not stare longingly at book pile… 🙂
Jessica Burkhart 