The Story Siren: Author Event: Julie Kagawa!

Saturday, March 6, 2010 at 10:10 AM

On Saturday February 27, I drove the 264 miles to Louisville, Kentucky to see the fabulous author of The Iron King, JULIE KAGAWA!!

I'll try to skip over the boring-ish details.

I got into Louisville around two o'clock. I just went right to the Borders, to meet up with Chelsea from The Page Flipper, Susan from Wastepaper Prose and Julie! I was a little early since I wasn't officially meeting up with them until 3 o'clock, but I knew I wouldn't have a problem killing an hour in Borders.

The Louisville Borders was about ten times bigger then the one we have here in Fort Wayne. It was so much nicer and made ours look like a little whole in the wall. The YA section was FAN-TABU-LOUS! I so want some shelves like that in my house, if I ever get a new one.

We had dinner with Julie at Sake Blue a sushi place. I had the Cha-Cha... it was delicious and Julie ordered an eel. I know, the horror! She even tried to get me to eat it, which I did not. It was called the King Cobra... it was seriously a whole eel. Crazy! There was a lot of talking at the late lunch/early dinner. Books, writing, reading... it's amazing how people can connect over books!

After Sake Blue we headed back to the Borders Cafe to wait until the signing started at 6. There were a lot of people at the event! Including the fabulous tenners: Jessica Leader (Nice and Mean) and Kelly Creagh (Nevermore). It was so exciting, Julie read a passage from the book, answered some questions and then signed a lot of books! She is hilarious & cute and suffers from an extreme Mountain Dew addiction.

Pictures:

This is Julie and I.

This is my half eaten cookie... with an backdrop of The Iron King and Mt. Dew.

Myself, Jessica Leader and Chelsea.

The Mini Dew.

The real Dew.

My Cha Cha sushi.. nom nom.

Julie reading.

Group photo! (or proof that Susan was really there)

Kelly Creagh, me and Jessica Leader.

14 comments:

Mundie Moms said...: How fun! It's so amazing at how books bring people together who become life long friends. It's so much fun when you get to hang out with the authors and enjoy down time w/ them. Great post!!; March 6, 2010 10:27 AM
WonderBunny said...: Sounds like a bunch of fun! I this book waiting for me to read. I'll get it it sometime soon (I hope!).; March 6, 2010 10:39 AM
Bookalicious Ramblings said...: Grrrreat photos and that YA section looks pretty unbelievable, dayuuum! Glad you had fun! :); March 6, 2010 10:56 AM
Liz said...: Wow! You had a good time^^; March 6, 2010 11:09 AM
S.F. Robertson said...: Fabulous post! I think you covered it all. You even managed to prove that I really exist! Quite the feat considering I was being annoying behind the camera most of the time.; March 6, 2010 12:25 PM
Larissa said...: Must have been really awesome Kristi! And I would go mad in front of an young adult section as big as that!!; March 6, 2010 1:55 PM
Sasha said...: Looks like you had such a fun time!! And uber jelz of that Borders. The YA section looks like pure divine heaven whereas our Borders in the UK closed down *sob*. Glad it was fun :D; March 6, 2010 2:20 PM
Storyheart said...: Wow what a great meet up event, looks like you all had so much fun; March 6, 2010 2:51 PM
elizabeth said...: Wow! Looks like you had fun!; March 6, 2010 3:00 PM
Sheila (Bookjourney) said...: That looks like so much fun and ewwwwwwhhhhhh about the eel! :); March 6, 2010 6:51 PM
annie yu said...: eel (unagi in japanese ) is super tasty! next time you have to try it. i promise, it's really good.; March 6, 2010 9:24 PM
Miss Remmers said...: This looks like great fun! I'm so jealous!; March 6, 2010 11:08 PM
Natalie Aguirre said...: I would have loved to have gone to this one.; March 7, 2010 3:34 PM
Just Your Typical Book Blog said...: Looks like you guys had a great time! Thanks for sharing :); March 7, 2010 11:23 PM