The first of the three trips sent me back to my adopted hometown of Houston, Texas, for TeenBookCon. If you live in or around Houston (or can get yourself there without too much trouble) you should try to get to there for TeenBookCon next year. It was amazing!
There were dozens of fabulous authors (some of whom I've been dying to meet for a long time, like Kate Brian, Justina Chen, and Claudia Gray). We started out the day on stage, while hundreds of teens watched from the auditorium.
Then, after Chris Crutcher's keynote speech, we headed to our panels. I was on the Take Me Away panel with Lenore Applehans, AG Howard, Sophie Jordan, Stacey Kade, and Shannen Messenger.
We repeated our panel four times, which you might think would get boring but since the audience questions changed every time, it was always different. (Although I think we were all a little loopy by the end of the day.)
I also got to spend some--but not enough--time with some of my favorite people.
It's so hard to say goodbye.
But the great thing about author events is that there is always another one just down the road. Luckily I got to see many of these awesome author peeps at my next two events. Stay tuned for recaps on both of those.
