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Herald Square pics

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I spent the afternoon here. Here being Harold’s Square in Manhattan. I thought I had my BEA clothes set. But no. No. It required trips to: Macy’s, Forever 21, H&M and a 3.1 second visit in the Gap before I was like, umm, sorry but no. Just not my style. FINALLY found what I wanted at the very last store, Forever 21, (thank you, Aly!!) and now have clothes. Still deciding how to pair them. Being a girl is hard sometimes, LOL. Am hauling said clothes over to Kassie’s in the morning to be like, “Help. Me. Pick.”

I’m working on getting my thoughts/general notes together for the BEA panel on Saturday. Am also working on sending a few emails here and there to New York and New Jersey schools about visits for the fall. If you know of any schools who are looking, please send them my way!

My list of authors to stalk is growing by the hour. Plus, um, I heard that a certain superfavoriteOMGIhearther author is attending a party that I’m going to. What if I fan girl out and squee or fall at her feet? Seriously. I have to be cool. Ahem.

Tomorrow, I’ve got the carnival (sooo packed with big authors that it’s making me super nervous!) and a quick trip to pick up my BEA badge. Friday, it’s BEA all day. Or until my arms fall off from too many books. There’s also a Friday night party, but I’m not sure if I’m going. Saturday is my panel and two parties. Very exciting!

Off to bed to read NIGHT WORLD.

NYC Teen Author Carnival is tomorrow!

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Tomorrow…is the NYC Teen Author Carnival! It’s hosted by Devyn, Mitali and Korianne. I’m so excited!

Here’s the final line up of authors:

Melissa Anelli – Author of Harry, A History
Website / Twitter

Pam Bachorz – Author of Candor
Website / Twitter

Lauren Barnholdt – Author of Two-way Street
Website / Twitter

Jennifer Lynn Barnes – Author of Fate
Website / Twitter

Coe Booth – Author of Tyrell
Website / Twitter

Libba Bray – Author of Going Bovine
Website / Twitter

Jessica Burkhart – Author of Canterwood Crest Series
Website / Twitter

Cinda Chima – Author of Demon King
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Cassandra Clare – Author of City Of Glass
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Tish Cohen – Author of Little Black Lies
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Susane Colasanti – Author of Waiting For You
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Sarah Cross – Author of Dull Boy
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Aimee Friedman – Author of Sea Change
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Linda Gerber – Author of Death by Denim
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Claudia Gray – Author of Hourglass
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Jenny Han – Author of The Summer I Turned Pretty
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Maureen Johnson – Author of Scarlett Fever
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PG Kain – Author of The Social Experiments of Dorie Dilts: Dumped by Popular Demand
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David Levithan – Author of Wide Awake
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Carolyn MacCullough – Author of Once a Witch
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Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus – Authors of The Real Real
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Sarah MacLean – Author of The Season
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Taylor Morris – Author of Total Knockout: Tale of an Ex-Class President
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Greg Neri – Author of Surf Mules
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Michael Northrop – Author of Gentlemen

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David Ostow – Illustrator of So Punk Rock
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Micol Ostow – Author of the Bradford Novels
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Elizabeth Scott – Author of Something, Maybe
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Robyn Schneider – Author of Better Than Yesterday
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Brian Sloan – A Really Nice Prom Mess
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Melissa Walker – Author of Lovestruck Summer
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Robin Wasserman – Author of Skinned
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Sasha Watson – Author of Vidalia in Paris
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Beckie Weinheimer – Author of Converting Kate
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Michelle Zink – Author of Prophecy of the Sisters

We’re all divided up into teams and I’m on Team Caramel Apple with:

Libba Bray
Jenny Han
Sarah MacLean
Melissa Walker
Sasha Watson
Pam Bachorz
Greg Neri
David Ostow
Micol Ostow
Sarah Cross
Tish Cohen

The other teams? Cotton Candy and Funnel Cake–they’re going DOWN! Team Caramel Apple is made of awesome and it’ll be fun! Can’t go? The event will also be streaming live, so you can check out the feed.

But if you’re in the city, here are the details one more time:

NYC Teen Author Carnival
May 28th, 2009
4:00 – 6:00 PM

Location:
Jefferson Market Branch Library
425 Avenue of the Americas [at 10th St.],
New York, NY 10011-8454.

See you there!

PS–Got an invite to the YA/MG drinks night? Ask Robyn Schneider, Julia DeVillers or Bennett Madison about it for Saturday night. 🙂

NYC Teen Author Carnival

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Thanks to JRA for letting me know about the NYC Teen Author Carnival. I’m participating along with:

Lauren Barnholdt – Author of Two-way Street
Website / Twitter

Sarah MacLean – Author of The Season
Website / Twitter

Robyn Schneider – Author of Better Than Yesterday
Website / Twitter

Beckie Weinheimer – Author of Converting Kate
Website /Twitter

Melissa Walker – Author of Lovestruck Summer
Website / Twitter

So excited to meet everyone! 🙂

Find us here:

NYC Teen Author Carnival
May 28th, 2009
4:00 – 6:00 PM

Location:
Jefferson Market Branch Library
425 Avenue of the Americas [at 10th St.],
New York, NY 10011-8454.

Book Expo America!

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I know I posted that I’m going to BEA, but I don’t think I posted the full details. I’m soo excited about going and it will be a lot of fun to meet up with friends.

Here’s the info, straight from the Website:

Saturday, May 30
9:30 – 10:30 am
Room 1E16

Driving Success with Teens & Tweens: Authors Share Online Success Stories

Sure, you’ve got a blog, but so does everyone else. What makes your online brand stand out? With so many networking, lifecasting and social media outlets available to authors, having a dot com, a myspace page, and a regularly-updated LiveJournal are only the bare minimum. This discussion will focus on non-traditional online marketing to teens and younger readers: ever thought about creating a Ning network, a Twitter feed from the perspective of your protagonist, or complimentary online content such as a YouTube channel, fashion blog, embeddable meme or downloadable EP? This discussion features a variety of perspectives from young adult and middle grade authors as well as handouts containing tutorials on how to make your own online book trailer, create an embeddable quiz, start a Ning network, and think outside the textbox.

Moderator: Robyn Schneider, author, Knightley Academy series

Presenters: Jessica Burkhart, author, Canterwood Crest series

Sarah Mlynowski, author, Magic In Manhattan series

Julia DeVillers, author, How My Private Personal Journal Became A Bestseller

Bye!

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Tomorrow, I’ll be in the air on the way to St. Louis. And, well, Memphis for a 50 minute layover. My plane leaves at 7am, so that means I’ll be on my second Diet Coke by 6am. Yes, I drink soda before coffee in the morning. I’m weird like that.

I’ll be speaking at the Missouri Writers Guild conference. I’m so looking forward to meeting Celeste Perrino-Walker, my awesome editor at Listen. See you Friday, C!

It should be a fun conference! Pics and possible video to come. 🙂

Also, my friend Tiana made this GORGEOUS slideshow for the Canterwood books. Tiana, thank you! I love it!

My visit to Roberts Elementary School

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Today, I visited Roberts Elementary School. I did my Power Point presentation for grades 3, 4 and 5. We had so much fun and it was great despite the threatening weather.

At my last presentation, the WCTV news crew showed up. They filmed my talk and interviewed me after it was over. Thanks to WCTV for stopping by! The funniest line of the day came when they showed up with a camera.

When a girl in the front row saw the news crew, her eyes got wide and she looked at me. She said, “Oh my gosh. You even have paparazzi following you!” I explained who they were and that didn’t make her any less excited, LOL.

The kids asked a zillion smart questions and I enjoyed visiting the school. Thanks again to Bill and Erma for all of their hard work.

As I was getting ready to leave, Erma (the media center specialist) handed me an envelope. Inside, were letters that some of the kids had written to me after the presentation. So. Cute. Some of the letters encouraged me to keep buying cotton candy Lip Smackers, which I’d told them was my fave. Others had phone numbers and email addresses for me to say hi. One told me to only eat cereal from now on after I told the “I set my microwave on fire before” story. 🙂

Thank you ALL for the amazing letters and drawings. You guys rock!

Going to tape WCTV’s (CBS 6) The Good Morning Show

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The sign! Obvi…


The Tallahassee studio for WCTV CBS channel 6.


70 copies of TTR that I signed for Roberts Elementary School.

First, those are the books I was given to sign for my next school visit on Friday. Thanks so much to Erma for helping me set this up. I had a blast signing the books and I will bring them to school on Friday, even though I’m tempted to fill up my bookcase with those copies. Hee.

Tomorrow, I’m going to my local CBS station to tape The Good Morning Show. It will air Friday morning at 7am. I’m a little nervous, but I looove doing TV stuff. I’ve been watching the DVD back of my appearance on Perspectives and I picked out my favorite words (“absolutely” and “so”) and made notes of gestures, expressions, etc that were weird and/or distracting. It’s pretty cool, actually, to have that 30 min appearance on DVD ’cause it’s like a demo reel.


She (Shonda Knight) is supposed to conduct the interview. Kind of exciting to meet someone you see on TV almost every day. 🙂

I already chose my outfit. I’ll take a pic of it tomorrow. It was easy to choose because of the no red, green, white or pattern rule. My taping is at 9am. Fingers crossed!

Visit to Lake City Community College–pics! :)

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Sign on the Learning Resource Center door


The crowd! Yay! 🙂


Dr. Charles Hall (Lake City Community College president) and his wife, Robin.


Jim Morris, the LCCC librarian who set up my visit.

The Timberwolves! Woo!


Dr. Hurner (my Freshman Comp I) prof. I referenced him in my speech and talked about how he gave me an F on my first essay at LCCC. *grins*

Magic! She came over with Debbie and George from Gentle Carousel.

This morning, I did a school visit at Richardson Middle School in Lake City, Florida. I had a fantastic time visting Dr. Summers’ class and I’ll be getting those photos soon. I’ll share all of the details about the school visit after I get the pics.

At 10am, I appeared on LCCC’s campus show–Perspectives. Thanks to Mike McKee for interviewing me on the show. I got a DVD of the show and I have a new favorite word. I said it a lot. “Absolutely.” 🙂 But I didn’t say “so!”

Then, at 2pm, I signed books and made a speech in the library. It was so much fun!

Thank you to everyone at LCCC, especially:

Jim Morris
Sonja Yarborough
Charles Hall
Mike McKee
Audrey Hulen

Also, my past professors who stopped by–Harriet Poole, Larry Gunter and David Hurner–it was great to see you!

When I had a break, I met with Debbie and Jorge Garcia-Bengochea. Debbie and Jorge run an amazing organization called Gentle Carousel. The program uses mini horses for therapy to visit sick and abused children. Debbie, Jorge and Magic met me at LCCC. I took a photo with Magic for their Website and signed books for them to use in their program. You can view the info they posted about Canterwood here on their Website. Just scroll about halfway down the page. I’m
right above Joe Camp, the man behind Benji. 🙂

I’m here

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This is my hotel room for tonight. Love. It. I’m staying over in Lake City since I have to be at the college at 8:15ish tomorrow morning. I’ll be doing a quick meet and greet at LCCC before heading over to Richardson Middle School to present to a pre-AP class. Then, I go back to LCCC to film their campus TV show, Perspectives. I have a couple of hours free after that and I’m hoping to meet with a director of a mini horse therapy program.

After my free period, I’m reading and signing books in the library at 2pm. Fingers crossed that all goes well! 🙂

If you’re in Lake City, hope to see you tomorrow!

PS- That’s my *third* Diet Coke of the night. Yeeaaaah.