For me, anyway.

In the signing room–

Lizzie Skurnick, Self Discovery – The Teen Classics We Never Stop Reading

Dacre Bram Stoker and Ian Holt, Dracula: The Un-Dead

Adrienne Kress, Timothy and the Dragon’s Gate

Thomas C. Adler, Campingly Yours

Mary Downing Hahn, Closed for the Season

Scott Westerfield, Leviathan

Leonard Marcus, Funny Business

Holly Black, The Poison Eaters and Other Stories

Gordon Korman, Peter Lerangis and Jude Watson, The 39 Clues

David Lubar, My Rotten Life: Nathan Abercrombie, Accidental Zombie

And the must-see panel–

BEA YA Editor’s Buzz

There are going to be a slew of YA authors there in the signing room and I wish I could see them all but seeing as I’ll only be there for a day and would like to see the exhibitors and I haven’t read many of their books, I had to whittle the list down.  A lot.  Not only so I could fit everything in that I wanted to but to avoid awkward conversations.  “Yeah, I haven’t read your first books but could I get a signed copy of the sequel?”  O_o  Weird.

While I’ve never read any of Scott Westerfield’s work, Leviathan is the beginning of a new series and it looks damn good.  Must get.    I’ve never read Holly Black either but she’s promoting a short story collection which would be a good place to start.  And then there’s The 39 Clues.  Even though I’ve never read any of the ones that are out, you can’t deny the awesomeness of the ingenuity behind that series.  That kind of involvement and thought is enough to be in awe.

Not that I feel a need to justify myself.  I just wanted to explain why I’m stopping by to see these authors instead of others like Melissa Marr or Ally Carter.  And I sure as hell will not be there at 6:30 in the morning (or is it 5:30? I think it’s 5:30) to try and get a ticket to see Suzanne Collins.  God, I will just have had gotten on a train at that point.

I also must hit the Children’s Pavillion along with Writers’ Row, not to mention about 1500 other exhibitors there.  I’m so going to konk out on the train home.