The second night of the teen book panel was equally fun. My main teenager was there, and won a free book in the raffle; plus she got signatures from Lauren Myracle and Natalie Standiford, so I was very happy for her.

My bio was less embarassing read aloud than previously. Afterwards I got to hang out with Libba Bray (author of A Great and Terrible Beauty), Rachel Cohn (Gingerbread, Shrimp) and YA lit agent extraordinaire Barry Goldblatt, all of whom were really charming and interesting -- plus beforehand I got to talk with Daniel Ehrenhaft, whose The Wessex Papers (written as Daniel Parker) has me currently on the edge of my seat and neglecting my writing to find out what happens.

Okay, now this has been a very name-droppy post, which is highly annoying, but the whole thing was really exciting!

--E