Divergent Signing Wrapup

This Tuesday I had the wonderful oppertunity to meet Veronica Roth, author of the upcoming YA dystopian thriller Divergent, curtoesty of Anderson's Bookshop. Only librarians, teachers, booksellers, and students were invite to this Pre-Publishing event and it was Veronica's first event with readers. After leaving the event, she had this to say on her Twitter account.

I love the people I write for. Especially tonight. #sappywritermoments

The place was packed. According to the organizer, more people showed up than people registered. Everyone was excited to see Veronica and she too seemed truly happy to see all of us, as if her Twitter quote doesn't prove that. It was a great time to meet her and, though she was a bit shy at first, she warmed up the group and I genuinely enjoyed being a part of her first book event.

In case you have yet to see it, you're welcome to check out my Divergent Review. I highly recommend reading it. It was good from beginning to end and promises an exciting series.

DeniseMadness, myself, Veronica Roth, Rosio, and Samantha.

Currently Reading

So, if you read my blog often you know I love Anderson's Bookshop in Naperville (outside of Chicago). Right now, they're running a Pre Publication event with author Veronica Roth who's book Divergent comes out in May. The actual author event is in February but I have the ARC now and am reading it. Of course I'll post a full review when I'm finished, but, if you want to hear my thoughts as I think them, head over to my twitter account where I'll be tweeting after each chapter with minimal spoilers but many things that won't make sense if you haven't read the book.

Suzanne Collins Tour

With exactly three weeks left until the release of Mockingjay the final book in The Hunger Games series, Scholastic has released the entire tour schedule for Suzanne Collins. You can view the list of events below and can follow this link to Scholastic's page to read the entire post.

•August 23, 2010: Midnight Party at Books of Wonder, New York, NY
•August 24, 2010: 1:00PM-2:30PM at Borders (Columbus Circle), New York, NY
•August 24, 2010: 7:00PM-9:30PM at Barnes & Noble, Huntington, NY
•August 25, 2010: 2:00PM-3:30PM at Bank Street Books, New York, NY
•August 25, 2010: 7:00PM-8:30PM at Books, Bytes & Beyond, Glen Rock, NJ
•August 26, 2010: 11:00AM-Noon at The Scholastic Store, New York, NY
•August 26, 2010: 5:00PM-6:30PM at Oblong Books and Music, Millerton, NY
•August 27, 2010: 1:00PM-2:30PM at RJ Julia Booksellers, Madison, CT
•August 27, 2010: 7:00PM-8:30PM at Uconn Co-op, Storrs, CT
•August 30, 2010: 7:00PM-8:30PM at Borders, Braintree, MA
•August 31, 2010: 1:00PM-2:30PM at The Children's Book Shop, Brookline, MA
•August 31, 2010: 6:00PM-7:30PM at Wellesley Booksmith, Wellesley, MA
•September 20, 2010: 5:00PM-6:30PM at Harleysville Books, Harleysville, PA
•September 21, 2010: 6:00PM-7:30PM at Barnes & Noble, Fairless Hills, PA
•September 22, 2010: 6:00PM-7:30PM at Children's Book World, Haverford, PA
•September 23, 2010: 3:00PM-4:30PM at Politics & Prose, Washington, DC
•September 23, 2010: 7:30PM-9:30PM at Books-A-Million, Hanover, MD
•September 25, 2010: National Book Festival in Washington, DC
•October 1, 2010: 4:00PM-5:30PM at Wild Rumpus, Minneapolis, MN
•October 2, 2010: 2:00PM-3:30PM at Red Balloon Bookshop, St Paul. MN
•October 3, 2010: 2:00PM-3:30PM at Anderson's Bookshop, Naperville, IL
•October 3, 2010: 7:00PM-8:30PM at The Book Stall, Winnetka, IL
•October 4, 2010: 3:00PM-4:30PM at The Magic Tree Bookstore, Oak Park, IL
•October 4, 2010: 7:00PM-8:30PM at Borders, Schaumburg, IL
•November 3, 2010: 7:00PM-8:30PM at Kepler's Books, Menlo Park, CA
•November 4, 2010: 7:00PM-8:30PM at Hicklebee's, San Jose, CA
•November 5, 2010: 7:00PM-8:30PM at Barnes & Noble, Lynnwood, WA
•November 6, 2010: 11:00AM-12:30PM at Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle, WA
•November 6, 2010: 4:00PM-5:30PM at Third Place Books, Lake Forest Park, WA

I have no idea which event I will be attending, but will be at one of them in IL. Let me know in the comments if you're going and where you'll be attending. Scholastic's blog post brings up an important note about the signing so be sure you check it out here if you haven't already!

Supernatural Summer Tour

Saturday, the Supernatural Summer Tour had a stop at Anderson's Bookshop in Naperville (outside of Chicago). This is not my first book signing, but my first wrap up of a book signing, so please bare with me. The crowd was large. In order to have a book signed, you needed to purchase a book and get a signing number. Luckily my friend and I went a week before the signing to get the books, getting numbers 31 and 32, because one of the girls had number 64. We didn't stay long enough to see where the line ended for the signing, but, by the looks of the crowd, we assumed the signing would go on for about another thirty minutes or half hour by the time we left. My camera doesn't take the greatest pictures from far away, but my friend Denise over at DeniseMadness took great pictures. Check out her blog here http://denisemadness.blogspot.com/


Authors Kim Harrison, Kelley Armstrong, Ellen Schreiber, and Kimberly Derting introduced themselves.



The Body Finder is Kimberly Derting's first published book, and she was the only one in the group who hadn't been on tour before.


Here's a picture of all the swag I was able to get while at the signing. Pictured is a Darkest Powers mouse-pad, a Darkest Powers pin, a Dangerous postcard, a bookmark for the Vampire Kisses series, a signed picture of the cover of Vampire Kisses, a signed cover of Once Dead, Twice Shy, an Alcatraz key, an Early to Death, Early to Rise shoelace, a Smart Chicks Kick It Tour bookmark, a signed Body Finder poster, a Body Finder sticker, a What Is Your Echo? sticker and a Body Finder bookmark. With that, I got my copy of The Body Finder signed, as well as my copy of The Eternal Kiss.