I’m spending the summer in Denver so the first thing I did was to find out what YA events were going on. I’m glad I did because Elizabeth Eulberg and Brigid Kemmerer stoped by the Tattered Cover on my first night here and I…
Last week I had the chance to meet Kasie West for the launch of Maybe This Time! Kasie writes the cutest books, so I was so excited to meet her for the first time! I also met up with Madi @ The Book Nerd Diaries!…
Last week the most exciting thing happened—Tahereh Mafi had her launch party for Defy Me at the bookstore I work at! The moment I found out she would be coming to our store (which was all the way back in February before any of her tour…
It’s been several months since I’ve gone to a book event, so I was beyond excited about going to see Leigh Bardugo on the last stop on her King of Scars tour! I went up to LA with four of the other booksellers I work with…
A couple weekends ago I attended the Pasadena Loves YA festival! This was my second time attending this festival—the first time was back in 2015. This year the four panels were Roads to Healing, The Art of the [Graphic] Novel, Was Lost but Now Found: Overcoming Adversity…
Last week I had the privileged of attending the special screening of The Darkest Minds with the cast! This was honestly one of the coolest book-related things I have ever done. Before this, I had never been to a premiere/advanced screening before. When I saw the…
I adored Morgan Matson’s latest novel, Save the Date (read my 5-star review), so I was beyond excited that the tour was making a stop close to where I’m at (yay for not having to drive 1+ hours for a book event)! I went to the…
This past Tuesday I celebrated the launch of War Storm, conclusion to the Red Queen series, with author Victoria Aveyard herself at Diesel, A Bookstore along with special guest Marie Lu. This was my first time visiting this bookstore, so I wanted to get there early (especially…
Last month I had the pleasure of celebrating the release of Sightwitch with Susan Dennard and Holly Black at Mysterious Galaxy! I knew this event would be packed so I made sure to arrive early so that I could buy books and get a good seat.…
While everyone else was at San Diego Comic-Con this past weekend, I attended the #PenguinTeenOnTour up in LA! The Penguin Teen authors featured at this event were Aditi Khorana, Morgan Rhodes, Romina Russell, and Danielle Vega. My mom and I left around mid-morning and…
I had the opportunity to attend my second event at Kepler’s two months ago, which was V.E. Schwab’s tour stop for A Conjuring of Light with special guest Tara Sim! My cousin picked me up after work on Friday and we headed to Menlo Park,…
