Last Thursday, The Nerd and I packed up and headed south to Austin to meet Maggie Stiefvater.
I’ve waxed poetic about my love for her and her books many, many times on this blog.
So, you’ll forgive me for one more post about her total awesomeness.
The event was at Book People, an independent bookstore in Austin.
It was my birthday, so I was super-stoked to get to meet one of my favorite authors on my birthday.
One of the best things about being a book blogger is the huge community that you join and the friends you make.
This is me with the Girls in the Stacks, another group of DFW book bloggers.
Stacy’s husband made an origami crane out of a subway paper to give to Maggie.
If you’ve read Linger, you know that’s the perfect gift for her.
I also met Michelle from Windowpane Memoirs.
Soon, it was time for the signing!
Here’s Maggie hanging out behind the curtain before she was announced.
She read from Linger and answered some questions from the audience.
She is *so* funny and even made a Monty Python joke.
I was able to capture most of it on video, and will be posting that soon.
It didn’t take long for me to get through the line.
We chatted about how it was my birthday, and she recognized me from Twitter.
I was pretty excited!
She personalized my books and even drew a wolf in my copy of Shiver!
It was a great day!
I got to meet one of my favorite authors, Maggie Stiefvater, on my birthday! Happy birthday to me!
Glad you had fun! I love going to book signings just to meet the author is so much fun.
Just lovely!!! Love all the pictures you got, it was great to meet you! 🙂
This looks like a great birthday. Thanks for sharing it with us. Happy Birthday!
It was so great to meet you! I love our group picture. I totally love the personalized page w/ the wolf from Maggie!
Glad you had such a great birthday! And hooray for meeting one of your favorite authors–that is so incredible! Hope all's well with y'all!
First, THANK YOU those are great pictures and for mentioning us!! I LOVE running into you. Second, I am oh so jealous of your camera…very. Third, hope the rest of your bday weekend was great, and the water was cool on the river!
It was great to meet you! Your blog is amazing 😉
I LOOOOOVE Maggie's books! Linger was amazing and Shiver had me crying…
I was wondering when the winner of July Book Extravangaza Contest will be announced?
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I'm hoping to get the winners posted early next week. Sorry for the delay — I had to go out of town unexpectedly and am now nursing a sore throat. Ah, life! 🙂
What a great birthday! I wish we had a bookstore like that near here.
Wow, it looks like you had a great time!