Okay, I’ve been completely remiss in talking about last week’s trip to Kidlit Con, and so I will do it now. First, the experience can really be summed up in this one sentence: It was so much fun!
Our panel on Friday was very laid back and not scary at all. (At least, not scary for me. We may have been frightening—I can’t speak for anyone else.) People asked great questions and I didn’t obsess about the fact that I was sitting in front of a roomful of people, talking into a microphone. Also, the venue was absolutely beautiful and I’m sad that I have no pictures of it.
Tess and Maggie have already done a much better (and when I say better, I mean prompt) job of posting pictures, but I’m including these anyway because I want them preserved for posterity. Also, there was a marquee! We had a marquee and I can’t not post a picture of that.
I also signed books (first time not at a trade show), and one of the conference attendees was kind enough to take this picture of me signing her book and then let me share it!
And of course, being in the same city with Tess and Maggie meant plenty of photo ops. Andrew Karre, editor extraordinaire, took this one and I absolutely love it. We are riding an escalator. We look so official!
Brenna Yovanoff 
I love that picture of the three of you together. You are all just so YOU! Plus, I really love your outfit. You look like a steampunk author, not in a costumey way, but in an awesome way.
Thanks! (I’m so fixated on clothes.) To me, it’s the best picture of the three of us together. Mostly because all the ones taken at previous gatherings, I’m making awkward faces.
Oh, Brenna… I so wish I could have been there. I really hope you guys do more events together and all across the US because I really want to meet you guys altogether. It would be the ultimate coolness factor for me.
BTW – Your outfit is to die for. I hear you always dress this awesomely. You have such awesome style!
I would LOVE to do more events like our panel—it was so much fun and the audience asked some really great, insightful questions, and everyone just wanted to talk about writing—I could totally see making a Thing out of this!
Love the photos. LOVE THEM. I so wish I could have gone, but glad y’all had a blast!
It was great, and Andrew took some amazing pictures! It’s really too bad you couldn’t make it—I feel like our paths have to cross eventually.
Someday. :)
Love the photos! This whole event seems so super-cool. Glad to hear you had fun!
It *was* super-cool! I wish I had some shots of the venue, because it was amazing and I really can’t do a good job of explaining, but it had everything I like all in one building—books and a coffee shop and an art gallery and a mechanical fortune-telling machine that made a toy magnolia tree bloom extravagantly if you put in a quarter . . .
Wow! I love your bag! Is that butterfly wings? I’m so excited for you guys. I’d love to meet you all one day. I’m trying to be patient. I saw some awesome necklaces at the New Moon Expo in Rochester that I just know you would have loved. Good luck with everything new.
Yes, it is the monarch bag! I love it very much—it’s so unusual and people always give it a second look :)
You were great!
You were so totally awesome. Your personality/persona came through beautifully.I kept thinking about your panel this week after I got my comments on my 2nd book from my critique group. It was very helpful. Now I’m kicking myself for not getting your signature in your book.
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I’m glad you liked it and thought it was useful! As my first event ever, I felt like it went well, but that might be due the fact that I basically got to sit at a table and have a conversation with my friends :)
Brenna, you are so well dressed. I am impressed.
Hahahaha—thank you! (I am slightly clothing-obsessed.)
AWESOME!
That is so cool!! But nothing cool like that comes to Dallas! But none the less, you guys look great!!! I love it!
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I completely know how you feel—we really don’t get many YA events in Denver either. (That’s changing now we have more local authors.) If I ever come through Dallas, though, I will announce it like crazy!
Wow, this is so incredible!!
you all look great and I wish I could have been there, but living in Greece is a setback that way! :P
It was a blast! However, on the plus side—you’re in Greece :D (I’ve never been there, but in my mind, it is totally idyllic.)
:)
rotfl!
Well, yeah I guess that’s on the plus side in the summer! :P
But still! You should all do a Southern European Tour soon! ;)
just saying… :P