ucsd alumni picnic and ALA!

hello lovely blog readers!

i am SO excited for ALA in Anaheim next weekend!

i’ll be on the rad panel: Not Another Boring Vampire

Romance: Going Beyond the Norm in YA Paranormal Fiction

led by the fabulous librarian, Angei Manfredi. i’ll be joined

by Kendare Blake, Jackson Pearce and Kenneth Oppel.

Saturday, 8-10am in the Anaheim Convention Center, Room 209B.

then from 12.30-1.30pm, i will be signing along with Tahereh Mafi

at the HarperCollin’s Booth 2558. i will be signing BOTH Silver Phoenix

paperbacks as well as Fury of the Phoenix hardcovers. please come!

i will also have gorgeous swag to dole out! =D

and please don’t forget to stop by Lee and Low to pick up

Diverse Energies, the first anthology i’m published in! it is

a YA multicultural dystopian and i’m so excited to read all

the stories included in this!

now some fotos! last weekend i attended the first ever

Revelle College Orientation Leaders Alumni Picnic!

i was pretty involved in student activities and leadership

while a student at Revelle College, UCSD. (it all started by

volunteering to be on the semi-formal committe! ha!)

from there, i also became a university tour guide, the co-chair

of the semi-formal committee, part of the senior year programs

board, as well as orientation leader the summer before my

senior year. i also interned under the student activities coordinator.

anyway, i have such fond memories of my time at ucsd.

and it’s always such a blast to return to campus. here are some

fotos from that saturday!

*liora, wonderful assistant dean of student activities

is still the cheerleader for all of us at Revelle. also joon and

enrico who were fellow orientation leaders with me.

*i was so surprised to see these new apartment buildings

by my old freshman dorm, Beagle Hall. (the brown brick

building you see closest to you.) in fact, i got a private VIP

tour (by accident, ha!) and got to see real live revelle students

in their natural habitats! =) seriously, it was lovely to return to

my old college and the boys were all fun and cute, and looked

totally young to me. ha!

*an ocean view on a june gloom day typical in san diego.

from the roof top deck of one of the new apartment buildings.

*a glimpse of the beautiful roof top garden. all the

plants are native to southern california and are watered

via a self watering system built within the complex utilizing

rain water. how cool is that?

that’s all for now! hope to see some of you at ALA!

currently reading:

Lost Voices by sarah porter