BEA – I want to go to there

And I am! W00T! I just put down ACTUAL MONEY on airline tickets and made hotel reservations. I’ll be in NYC May 24th – 28th. (It’s going to be just like in Down with Love, right? #sarcasm)

For those not in the know, BEA (Book Expo America) is a giant book convention thing where publishers have booths where you can pick up advanced copies of books not out yet, and there are also lots of author signings and other fun stuff, plus lots of book peeps to hang out with.

I can’t believe it. I feel sick. I can feel it in my TEETH, I am so excited and nervous and maybe hungry. So many people I know are going to be there, from other authors to book bloggers to agents and editors and publishers and even teens I know who had to beg their moms to take them all the way to NYC are going. My book comes out two weeks before the con, which means not only will May be one big giant culmination of my publishing journey, but I will also get to sign books.

Also I am going to fantasize about re-enacting the end battle from The Last Olympian but probably not actually do it. But I’ll be thinking about it. <__< A couple months ago I was afraid if I went to one of these things, I'd be hanging around my publisher's booth the whole time, hoping they wouldn't shoo me away because I'd have no where else to hang out. But now I know so many people I want to hang out with that are going, it's going to be crazy insane and there will be no wallflowering!