Romantic Times Book Convention

RT Teen Day <3 April 9, 2011

Melissa de la Cruz; LOVE her BB series!

Richelle Mead signing my copies of Vampire Academy

This past Saturday was the Annual RT Book Convention in Los Angeles. After the book fair and the book signings RT was hosting a new event; Teen Day. There were many activities going on, some at the same time, so you had to choose where you wanted to go. My cousin and I attended-

Author Speed-dating: During this event all authors would sit at a table and had 5 mins to talk to us about anything they wanted (book related or not), answer questions, take pictures or hand out swag. At our table, we got to meet SO many awesome authors;

Simone Elkeles (Perfect Chemistry)

Ally Carter (Heist Society)

Richelle Mead (Vampire Academy)

Kimberly Derting (The Body Finder)

Kami Garcia (Caster Chronicles)

Margaret Stohl (Caster Chronicles)

Jeri Smith-Ready (Shade)

Michele Jaffe (Rosebush)

Sophie Jordan (Firelight)

Rachel Vincent (Soul Screamers)

Kelley Armstrong (The Gathering)

Carrie Ryan (The Forest of Hands and Teeth)

Alyson Noel (The Immortals)

Clare B. Dunkle (The House of Dead Maids)

Jennifer Lynn Barnes (Raised by Wolves)

Jackie Morse Kessler (Hunger and Rage)

Colleen Houck (Tiger's Quest)

Kelley Armstrong

I had SO much fun getting to know all these authors on a more personal level, even if we only had 5 minuets to chat. I was so scared to meet Simone Elkeles, but she is so nice and hilarious! We talked about Alex Rodriguez, the extremely hot guy that plays Alex Fuentes in her book trailers.... That boy is steaming hott! Michele Jaffe is probably one of the most fashionable authors I have ever met (picture below). She had on the cutest pink boots and pink tights. Rachel Vincent seemed very shy at first but then slowly opened up. Jennifer Lynn was just plain out awesome. We spent the majority of the time comparing humans to monkeys :)haha! It was a BLAST!

Kami Garcia, Rachel Vincent and myself

Author Speed-Reading: After Speed-Dating came Speed-Reading. This was a panel of YA authors that read short excerpts in timed readings. Some of these excerpts came from newly released books, others from ARC's. YA Panel;

Cassandra Clare (The Mortal Instruments)

Holly Black (White Cat)

Ann Aguirre (Enclave)

Carrie Ryan (Forest of Hands and Teeth)

Rosemary Clement-Moore (Texas Gothic)

Jennifer Lynn Barnes (Raised by Wolves)

Kristi Cook (Haven)

Kimberly Derting (The Body Finder)

Sarah Rees Brennan (Demon's Lexicon)

Alyxandra Harvey (Drake Chronicals)

Cassie Clare; I told her to give me an author pose :)

Cassandra Clare read from her new TMI book; CoFA, Jennifer Barnes read from her ARC of Trial by Fire (book #2 in the Raised by Wolves trilogy). This is totally random but during this panel I develpoed a small girl crush on Sarah Rees Brennan. She is super nice, witty, not to mention super smart! She read a bit from Demon's Lexicon and as soon as we left the event, I bought myself a copy :)

Teen Party:

After these two events came the RT Tenn Party which was pretty much a mix and mingle with all the YA authors who were present. Upon entering the vent, each person was given a "Teen swag bag" that was filled with books and goodies. I did a quick video to summarize this part of the evening;

I forgot to mention that besides Farrah, I also met some new bloggers, one of them came all the way from New York! I couldn't believe it!... I'm talking about you Haysel :) Check out our blog; The Tattered Page. And that's ittt!! Like I said, overall I believe RT Book convention was a success! Thanks so much for stopping by! Here are a couple author photos, enjoy :)

The lovely Farrah from ieatwords.net

Tera Lynn Childs

Michele Jaffe and her cute outfit :)

CC Hunter- Born at Mightnight

Aly Carter

Colleen Houck and my cousin

Rachel Caine; can't believe I waited this long to read Morganville Vampires

Kimberly Derting

Melissa Marr

Holly Black

PS. Make sure and stop by next week for a giveaway :) In my Teen bag, I received a couple of books which I already own so I'll be giving them away! Happy Friday and I hope you all have a GREAT weekend!