A fun photo blog about the 2010 BookExpo America (BEA) and Book Blogger Convention (BBC) in New York that I was lucky enough to attend last week!
I booked my trip at the last-minute, after spending a good four months silently wishing I could attend, as I love to blog about books in my free time. I thought it would be great if I could spend a few days soaking up some book culture, not only to make my unpaid job as a book blogger a heck of a lot easier, but also to meet some cool new authors and bloggers. Once I got there, I realized it was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. I met incredibly interesting and downright fabulous people, and even got to spot some famous folks, which is always fun. I loved meeting other bloggers, like my Canadian “twin” Amy (pictured first) or Pam, one of my favorite bloggers and the lady who made my trip possible by letting me stay with her and her family.
The best part of attending BEA and BBC was meeting authors, especially the ones who I’ve already read or wanted to read their books. Authors, to me, are like the coolest people ever, and it just isn’t because I want to be one someday. It’s because they have that wonderful ability to get my brain whirling, and leave lifetime impressions with me. Plus, so many of them are funny or just interesting as hell. Maybe you are the type of person who goes gaga over sports people or movie stars, (I’m admittedly partial to rock stars) but I love me up some authors like no other type of celebrity.
I have decided to break apart my one very large BEA and BBC post into several semi-long posts over the next few days, saving us both time and energy, so here is part two. Trust me, I met way more authors and spoke with many other fabulous people than shown here. I either forgot or felt dumb to take pictures with everyone I met. I will be talking about some of those people or at least their books in another post later this week. I’m just sad I didn’t bring my Nikon D80 and a photographer friend along to BEA and BBC. Some of the pictures didn’t turn out to my liking, but what can you do?
Part Two: Who I Met/Who I Saw
Cool authors who I adored chatting with more than your typical “I love you” book nerd moment:
Alix Strauss
Rachel Shukert
Andrew Shaffer
Jeanine Cummins
Jennifer Belle
Simon Van Booy
Cool authors I was dying to meet and totally gushed to and they were so kind about it:
Rob Sheffield
Melissa Sue Anderson
Kathryn Stockett
If you’ve read The Help, you understand why they served us a piece of yummy cake!
Authors I discovered at the event whose books I now want to read:
Sean Manning
Teddy Wayne
Dan Wells
Stephanie Cowell
Famous celebrity authors:
Teresa Giudice
Patty Lapone
Rick Springfield
Tim Gunn
Authors/Bloggers who spoke at the BBC and were so hilarious I must now read them:
Maureen Johnson
Authors that will make me super cool to my stepson:
Jeff Kinney
Miscellaneous fun photos from the BEA floor (L. Ron Hubbard & Scientologists, where is my Pirate photograph you promised to email me a.s.a.p.? Have you not emailed it to me yet because you’ve read on my blog that when I’m in stress I scream Help Me Tom Cruise?):
And, a few fun photos from what I saw at the Sex and the City 2 Premier in NYC Tuesday night:
If you’d like, please read Part One of my experience at BEA and BBC here.
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