Megan Whalen Turner is on everyone's lips these days...

[elle-winters.livejournal.com]

Today I met two amazing Authors: Sarah Rees Brennan (author of The Demon's Lexicon) and Holly Black (author of The Spiderwick Chronicles).

They both gave a lovely (and hilarious) presentation at our school and then a friend and I stuck around afterwords to chat (and possibly miss as much gym class as possible) while people were taking pictures and signing books. They were really sweet. We talked about fleshing out characters, writers block, how Holly Black writes at least 1000-ish words a day (AHEM AHEM, MEGAN) and Sarah's opinion on sparkling vampires.

and then this epic conversation came up with much SQUEEing involved (the conversation went something like):

elle: are there any authors/books you guys really loved that you would suggest?
Holly: We've met so many amazing authors (one of the great things about our job) and there's so many good books out there.
Is there any particular type of book you like reading?
elle: Well...I pretty much read anything.
Holly: Hmm..what's your favorite book that you've recently read
elle: ummm....QUEEN'S THIEF SERIES?
Holly: MEGAN?! Sarah-she's read Megan
Sarah: Megan Whalen Turner?
elle: *nods*
Holly: Have you read A Conspiracy yet?!
elle: I read the ARC!!!
Sarah: So did we!!
elle: But you have to read the final version, she's made changes!!
Holly and Sarah: WHAT?!
elle: She's changed several scenes, it's not a huge difference, but there's details
Holly: I thought the ARC was the final copy! 
Sarah: Oh, I know what we're going to do at the Book shop we stop by tonight! Megan Whalen Turner-the greatest Thief of all time.

And then we talked about TT and The Queen, and  went into a whole conversation about which books were "Megan Whalen Turner-ish" yes, folks, it's an offical word now =]


 

Comments

[chachic.livejournal.com]

Wow, sounds like you had an amazing time! It's always interesting to know that other authors ♥ MWT too. And yay for MWT-ish books, they keep us sane while waiting for the next book to come out.

[elle-winters.livejournal.com]

so true =]

[elle-winters.livejournal.com]

=D they're pretty awesome hands down
and so is megan (in a dream perfect world-megan's books would come out by the hour =)

[pigrescuer.livejournal.com]

What IS Sarah's opinion on sparkling vampires? She's aways been pretty careful of not being rude about other books on her blog - even her response to the whole Diana Gabadon was quite general - and I have wondered. :D

Both of them are members of this community, by the way, and we all once took a field trip over to sarah's LJ when she reiewed the first three books. ^_^

Have you read any of their books? The sequel to the Demon's Lexicon is out very soon over there I think? It doesn't comeou here till theend of the month. And White Cat just came out in the US too.

[elle-winters.livejournal.com]

I think you can guess =D

that's way too cool! I'm reading Demon's Lexicon right now and I just got the second one I can't wait!!

I want to get a copy of white cat from the library, it looks so good!!

[elle-winters.livejournal.com]

I'm going to go find then and add them!! Thats soo cool that they're apart of sounis!

sings *it's a smaaalll world after alllll, it's a smaaaallll world after allll*

[tiegirl.livejournal.com]

Gah, now that song will be in my head until Glee comes on!!! Thanks a lot!

[msmcknittington.livejournal.com]

What were the MWT-ish books they suggested?

[elle-winters.livejournal.com]

well we were talking about Sarah's book Demon's Lexicon
so that's what I'm currently reading =]
we pretty much came to the conclusion that a 'MWT-ish' book is one that you cant talk (without giving it away) but want to force people to read =D

[tiegirl.livejournal.com]

Oh this is too awesome! How much fun did you have? What a great experience!

[elle-winters.livejournal.com]

so much!! It was a really great time!

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

WHAT? How in the WORLD did your school get the two of them??? How awesome! (I feel like putting about 20 more exclamation points but shall restrain myself.)

[elle-winters.livejournal.com]

I asked my librarian and she just said that we got lucky. they offered to come, we didn't even ask! :D

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

Lucky, indeed!

[twelfthfantasy.livejournal.com]

That is awesome. I knew that they both like the QT series, but being able to talk to two awesome authors about another amazing author...

Some day I will actually be in the same state as any one of these authors at the same time they are on tour. It will happen. Or I will make it happen. And I hope it will be just as cool as this.

[elle-winters.livejournal.com]

yay!! I hope so, everyone should get the chance to meet with their favorite authors!
It's funny and slightly amazing when you have an actual conversation with them so unreal =]
lol

This calls for SOCKS...

[agh-4.livejournal.com]

Yay Elle! That is so, so, so awesome! You be lucky, and that sounds like so much fun!!!!

Tchaa, your lucky school! Thanks for the post. I feel happy now.

Re: This calls for SOCKS...

[elle-winters.livejournal.com]

yay!! I know it really made my day!

Sounis's
Obvious
Conspiracy of
Kings
Socks

Re: This calls for SOCKS...

[tiegirl.livejournal.com]

Clever girl!

Re: This calls for SOCKS...

[agh-4.livejournal.com]

Acronym skills alert! :)

[emerald-happy.livejournal.com]

SO COOOL

YOUR SCHOOL GOT BOTH OF THEM

AT THE SAME TIME

WIN

[elle-winters.livejournal.com]

They requested to be on tour together! We were soooo lucky to be in the right place at the right time!!
Woot woot!

your school is a school for werewolves?

[pigrescuer.livejournal.com]

http://sarahtales.livejournal.com/166422.html

Re: your school is a school for werewolves?

[elle-winters.livejournal.com]

Ha! That's the one!
Thanks for the link PR!

[lylassandra.livejournal.com]

Holly, if I recall correctly, does not have three kids to run after. Give Megan a break. =)

[elle-winters.livejournal.com]

And that is why we absolutely adore her :)