I WILL be going to the festival after all! For both days! Yay! I know a few other bloggers are going, too– let me know if anyone wants to meet up somewhere. I think three or four of us are going to John Green’s panel on Saturday, so that might be a good time/place to meet, yes/no?
Besides John Green’s panel, I’m planning on going to Judy Blume’s (and her signing after if I can) and the one with Maureen Johnson, Lauren Myracle, Maggie Stiefvater, and Jacqueline Woodson (with Susan Carpenter as the moderator) on Sunday. There are some other YA-related panels happening that I don’t need tickets for, so I’m thinking I can get to them no problem. Plus, some authors are doing stuff outside of the official panel things, like readings by Julie Andrews(!) and Shawn Thomas Odyssey, and I’m hoping to go catch some of that, too. And of course there will be whatever exciting activities are going on in various booths! Exciting!
I think I’m going to tackle LATFOB like I did BEA last year: I have an outline of what I want to see/do, and the rest will fall into place during the course of the day. That way I’ve got enough wiggle room to be spontaneous but enough structure so I’m not wandering around aimlessly for six hours!
Now, I do have some questions:
1. Is there a schedule/any info of which authors are signing after their panels? I know John Green and Judy Blume are; who else is going to?
2. Is it more important to be completely comfortable1 or more professional?2 I don’t actually have any of my business cards with me, and I don’t think I’ll be going around telling people I’m a book blogger, so I suppose professionalism isn’t all that important right now. Hm.
To everyone who’s going: see you there! To everyone who isn’t: I’ll write up really awesome posts about the festival, no worries!
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I’m so excited for you that you’re going to see John Green! Sounds like you’re going to have an amazing time
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It WAS amazing!
Writing about it is going to be hard, haha!
Oooh…I’m jealous. Unfortunately, there aren’t many authors who come to Iowa
I hope you have a great time!
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Thank you!
Definitely go for comfortable. It’s a big festival with a lot of walking in the sun! Have a great time.
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I ended up doing a nicer version of the comfy outfit, so I think it worked out okay.
I’m planning to see John Green and Judy Blume too–so I hope that means I’ll see you! (Not sure I’ll do the signings, though, since I don’t have any of her books now and I read The Fault in Our Stars as an e-book.) I may only go on Saturday–I’ll decide tomorrow afternoon
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It was so nice seeing you, Florinda!
I hope you had a fabulous time! I can’t wait to read your posts!
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I hope to have posts up about it later this week!
I was there today! It was great, I really enjoyed it
I hope you went for comfort because it was pretty warm and there was a lot of walking involved. I wish I would’ve seen John Green yesterday but I did meet quite a few authors today. Will you be sharing pictures? If so, I can’t wait to see!
BTW, I love your blog and am a new subscriber. Looking forward to reading more
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I did go more for comfort! I’m glad I did, too, because I think I would have been even more miserable today than I would have if I hadn’t.
And thanks so much! That makes me feel really good.