all business: ncte/alan in november

hi everyone!!

i'm finalizing my trip to orlando thanksgiving

week (sunday through tuesday) for the ncte/alan

conference and i'm so excited!!

if you are in orlando and love young adult books,

you really should consider attending. here is the

alan site. there will be at least fifty authors on panels

in one place, including ones i hope to meet like

kristin cashore and cassandra clare.

i also just finished books by both sarwat chadda

and cinda williams chima and really enjoyed them.

i'll be on a panel with them on monday at the conference!

Monday, Nov. 22 @ 3.45pm, Panel and signing

"Long Ago in a Land Far Away"

Cinda Williams Chima

Courtesy of Disney Books, Dina Sherman

Sarwat Chadda

Courtesy of Disney Books, Dina Sherman

Cindy Pon

Courtesy of HarperCollins, Patty Rosati

Introduction by Margaret Ford, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio

i can't wait!!

other than that, please check out the newly

redesigned Silver Phoenix page and added

Fury of the Phoenix page (click on contents to

your left =). if you are reading this on LJ, you'll

have to hustle over to my actual website.

and finally, congrats to lauren (same name!) for winning the

signed arc of Wither by lauren destefano. the turnout

was amazing and thank you to everyone who entered!

and to lauren d especially for sharing an arc of her

debut with me. =)

just finished The Replacement by breanna

yovanoff and really enjoyed it. beautiful prose

for some dark and frightening imagery. i'm not

sure what i'm in the mood for next, tho sarah waters

fans are voting for Fingersmith. she's such a fantastic

writer, if you haven't read her yet, you should. i started

with Tipping the Velvet and recently read The Little

Stranger.

zai jian for now! =)