BEA, Day 2 update

 I am running on ten hours of sleep in two days! This leads me to use excessive exclamation points! I'm sorry! Let me make it up to you with this picture of me in front of the Empire State Building!

I went to the Adult Author Breakfast (which was awesome, and I took lots of notes, and I can't wait to share insights with all of you), and I saw one of my favorite adult authors, Barbara Kingsolver:

I went to the YA Editors Buzz panel! Only some people were jerks and took all of the ARCs of Crewel and What's Left of Me! So I was sad! But I did three other awesome ARCs, so suck it, greedy pushy people!

I also met Malinda Lo in real life! And she signed a copy of Adaptation for me! (And no, I don't know what I'm doing with my hand in this picture.)

I got to see Mary Casanova with her new book Frozen, which I helped beta-read, so it was super-awesome to see it on shelves!

Then I wandered the floor a lot and got about sixty pounds of books and swag which is a LOT to carry around (note to future BEA-ers: BAG CHECK IS YOUR FRIEND), so then I was tired and ate Korean food with Corinne Duyvis. (With whom I did not get a picture because I am an idiot!)

I got to meet even more of the fabulous Forever Young Adult crew at the Apocalypsies event (which was crazy-busy with wonderful people and authors so I didn't get any pictures). Meghan, Jenny, Sarah: HOLLA!

I had a surprise meet-up with Kate Milford! (And you can find the picture of me with her puppet Lish on Twitter.)

Then I got to have dinner with two of my favorite bookish people around, Lyn Miller-Lachmann and Neesha Meminger! You should read their books! Because they are great!

And then my mom and I carried crazy amounts of books ten blocks between the restaurant and the subway station and now my back and shoulders hate me! So!

GOOD DAY, PEOPLE! SEE YOU TOMORROW!