Dragon*Con and The Decatur Book Festival-- Part One

Dragon*Con and The Decatur Book Festival both took place this past weekend in Atlanta and this year I made the effort to attend both of them!

Dragon*Con, if you're not familiar, is a Sci-fi convention that is held in Atlanta annually. I attended Saturday with fellow book blogger Danni from the Romantic Harbor. After we waited in line for two hours to get our tickets (OMG) we finally got into the con and were able to take a look around. Our first event was a signing with Sherrilyn Kenyon, author of the new YA series The Chronicles of Nick, but also a romance series called the Dark Hunters.

Sherrilyn was fantastic! Not only did she take her time with each of her fans, but she insisted on hugs and would sign anything you gave her! She even signed my Dragon*Con Pass! They also were giving away posters of Infinity (the first book in the Chronicles of Nick) and I was able to grab two. I will be giving one away as part of the giveaway when I get to 400 followers! So keep a look out for that! After her signing, we attended her Q&A, which was a lot of fun!

(Me-left, Sherrilyn Kenyon-right)

After Sherrilyn's events, we attended an event where Kathleen Duey (author of Skin Hunger) was part of the panel. It was called Images of Love and it was mostly about how books these days (like Twilight) affect young and impressionable girls. We discussed positive and negative aspects about Edward being so pushy and Bella being such a weak heroine. It was a very interesting event, and afterward I was able to talk a bit with Kathleen Duey. She was so nice and I was able to get a picture with her!

I also met another book blogger there -- The Literary Omnivore. We exchanged links and I'm glad to have another Atlanta blogger friend!

(Kathleen Duey-left, Me-right)
Stay tuned for my next post, where I went to the Decatur Book Festival and met Cassandra Clare, Michelle Zink, Jackson Pearce, and more!

Some changes for next week

Hello everyone!

I just wanted to let you guys know I am changing up this coming week. I have Werewolf week planned, and I am sticking with it, but I have to cut it short. Werewolf week will now be the 12th-16th or rather Monday-Friday. I had to cut the weekends off it because I really have a few other things to post this weekend that do not pertain to werewolves at all.

I also just got back from The Southern Festival of Books this weekend!! It was fantastic, so I hope to share the details this Saturday! Oh, and just for a small sneak preview since it pertains to Vampire week...

The Decatur Book Festival pt 1

So, I just attended The Decatur Book Festival which took place in downtown Decatur, GA on Saturday. It was fantastic! I had such an amazing time (though now I'm quite sore) and met so many great and wonderful people. So, lets start off with the Breakfast! At 8:30 in the morning...

The day started out with breakfast with... authors! We had a blogger and author breakfast that Vania set up and it was so much fun! The Bloggers that attended were Vania, Kelsey, Shalonda and Danni. The authors were David Levithan (top right, Nick and Nora's Infinite Play List), Aimee Friedman (top left, Sea Change), Diana Peterfreund (Rampant), and Jennifer Jabaley (Lipstick Apology). There were a few other authors/people that also attended like Shelli and a few others whose names I didn't catch (sorry guys >__<).

We all had such a great time jabbering about various things. Diana gave me pretty signed Rampant book marks (the first person** who comments and tells me a breed of Unicorn in Rampant will win a signed bookmark and a five dollar gift certificate to a bookstore of choice) and we talked about things like Dragon Con (since she wasn't attending the DBF and going to Dragon Con instead). Diana was so cute! I wish I could have talked to her throughout breakfast, but David stole her attention (I was actually really nervous to talk to David... his books are so well known that I felt fangirlish lol). So around that time, Jennifer Jabaley shows up looking cuter then ever! I went and sat across from her and Aimee and chatted. Everyone was just so nice!

So our food came and of course it was delicious! Shalonda and I both had a Waffle topped with strawberries, powdered sugar and whipped cream! Yummy! Finally Kelsey shows up with her sister in law and our little ATL blogging group was complete. We had to be at the AJC bloggers tent by 10, so we had to head out. After much hugging and picture taking (and Diana signing my book!) we finially left to make it to the bloggers tent, and as well as... a signing! Stay tuned for DBF: Part Two... the Signings! x)



**That person cannot be Vania, Shalonda, Kelsey or Danni. Lol.