Lost in My Library

One of the best parts about living in a bigger city for this semester is that I'm closer to a lot of independent bookstores, and with those, more bookish events! I've been able to go to two separate launches in the past month, both for books I was really excited about! At the beginning of the month, I went out to Virginia to visit One More Page books for a TOIL & TROUBLE ! This witchy anthology was the perfect thing to get me in the fall mood. I got to hear co-editor Jessica Spotswood and contributing authors Lindsay Smith and Robin Talley talk about their inspirations for their stories, their favorite fictional witches, and what kinds of powers they'd like to have. Just a week ago, I went to the launch of FOR A MUSE OF FIRE at East City Bookshop! Heidi Heilig talked to Ellen Oh about her process and inspiration for writing the book . I always get more in the mood for fantasy books in fall, and this event just made me even more excited to dive into this ...

I always get super excited when book events happen near me, because it really doesn't happen that often! Sure, most people who go anywhere near the West Coast stop in LA, but I'm really not all that close to LA and, as I'll repeat as often as I need to, LA traffic is the worst ever and it's absolutely soul-sucking . (Of course, I could justify it if I were driving myself, but guess who doesn't have a car or the ability to drive that far on a freeway.) Anyway , that was all a very roundabout way of saying that when I found out that Morgan Matson - yes, the Morgan Matson - was doing an event for SAVE THE DATE in Orange County, I screamed. And died, and then came back to life in order to go to the event. I also told Sky @ Sky's Reading Corner about it, and she went through the same scream-die-resurrection process. There was a slight drawback in that this event just happened yesterday and I had to buy the book at the event, meaning that for the past t...