TENNER LUNCH and DEBS DINNER (a post in pics)

Khy, Catt (who made the most brilliant shirt with all kinds of stuff about the Tenners, Jay Asher, and Kami Garcia & Margie Stohl), and Alicia (all pictured with Suzanne Young) were just three of the lovely bloggers who made the day so fabulous!

Me with Suzanne Young...

...and with Khy.

Vania (our fourth beautiful blogger) with THE Holly Black. My attempt at being "aloof and cool" in front of Holly came across as "who-the-hell-are-you" resulting in one very famous author thinking I had no idea who she was. I had to remedy that the next day by explaining to her that I was trying not to fan-girl all over her. (Leave it to me to make an ass of myself somehow!)

Okay, so Khy put together these AMAZING gift bags for each of the authors in attendance. She must have spent hours searching through our books, blogs, websites, and possibly even our trash to uncover our innermost secrets because She. Nailed. Them!

This was mine, all packed into a popcorn tub:

The popcorn tub because my main characters go on a date to the movies, the police car because my main character's uncle is a cop, the other car (because you'll have to read why), the mascara is my favorite brand (and only a loyal blog reader would know that!), ditto with bubble gum (I LOVE bubble gum), and the coloring book is because I used to make homemade coloring books and go door-to-door selling them when I was a little girl. On top of that, she wrote the sweetest note ever!

And, yes Khy, I will "Stay Gold"!!!

So, after a long day of excitement, I got to meet up with the Debs (and Lisa Schroeder, pictured here with J.E. MacLeod) for dinner that night (Thanks, L.K. for planning such a great evening!). It was loud and wonderful and like being with long-lost friends.

And this was just Friday!!!