So Books and Books is this super cool Miami book chain with a cute cafe and very cool books. They also have Author Events. They had this super cool This is Teen – Live! event where Libba Bray (Beauty Queens), Maggie Stiefvater (Forever Wolves of Mercy Falls #3), and Meg Cabot (Abandon) were coming to talk and sign books. Sounds like a YA-lover’s dream! I was giddy with thoughts of book signings, author talks, and general bookish chit-chat.
Then I looked at the date: July 23
Darn…
You see my own teen (my cousin Casey) was set to visit that very weekend! Oh fates…how you play me. We’d been trying to arrange Casey’s visit for 6 months. Between our already busy visitation schedule (this happens when you live next to the beach) and Casey’s packed dance regieme…free weekends were few and far between. When we finally decided on the fourth weekend in July it seemed perfect. Until my bookish-moral-dilema that is…To ditch the family and visit my dream authors? Or not?
I’m a good cousin…I chose snorkeling with the fam instead…Anyone out there proud of me for taking the moral high road? Can a girl get a cookie?
It was pretty fun.
That being said…I still didn’t completely miss out. I called the nice people at Books and Books and had them hold a few signed copies for me. Beauty Queens was one of my favorite books this year and I just couldn’t pass up a signed copy. Plus, Forever is the last in the Wolves of Mercy Falls series…To be so close and not get a signed copy of that too…crazy talk.
So I ended up with a fun weekend, full of pictures and family fun
And a few signed books
But wait…there’s more…I picked up an extra signed copy of Forever for one lucky reader. Yep, I’m nice like that 😉
Just comment on this post and I’ll have Randomizer pick out one lucky reader on August 23 (the hubby’s B-day…this way I’ll remember the date, lol)
Oh, and what the heck…if you Tweet this giveaway I’ll throw in an extra entry…Just add another comment to the post with your Twitter link.
Good Luck to All!