{"id":185,"date":"2010-03-02T21:22:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T02:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/?p=185"},"modified":"2010-03-02T21:22:11","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T02:22:11","slug":"iron-king-release-party-and-i-meet-some-book-bloggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/iron-king-release-party-and-i-meet-some-book-bloggers\/","title":{"rendered":"Iron King Release Party&#8211;and I Meet Some Book-Bloggers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/julie-signing-small.jpg\"><\/a>Several very cool things happened this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>First, fellow Louisville author, fellow Tenner, nifty gal Julie Kagawa released her young-adult novel THE IRON KING, which has been getting great buzz all over the internets.\u00a0 (It&#8217;s on my TBR pile.)\u00a0 Congrats, Julie!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/julie-signing-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"iron king\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_Oo5ADbDcnGU\/SwP_RxRC9mI\/AAAAAAAAAfg\/F9Se6SSGC-I\/s1600\/The+iron+King.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"96\" height=\"257\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"julie signing small\" src=\"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/julie-signing-small-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(That&#8217;s Julie\u00a0looking writerly next to her trademark Mountain Dew.)<\/p>\n<p>Second, I went to the party with Kelly Creagh, fellow Louisville author, fellow Tenner, author\u00a0of NEVERMORE, coming out in September.\u00a0 (Are you seeing a theme?\u00a0 It&#8217;s cool to be a debut YA author from Louisville!)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-188 alignleft\" title=\"Kelly Creagh and ball\" src=\"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Kelly-Creagh-and-ball-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Nevermore\" src=\"http:\/\/darkfaerietales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Nevermore.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"101\" height=\"140\" \/>Here&#8217;s Kelly looking glamorous with these amazing bouncy-balls from Borders, which not only contain sparkly glitter&#8211;they light up if you bounce them the right way!\u00a0 (Well.\u00a0 They lit up when <em>Kelly<\/em> bounced them the right way.\u00a0 As for me&#8230;I pretty much just admired hers.)\u00a0 (And apologies for all the white space.\u00a0 I seem to have issues arranging photos tonight.)<\/p>\n<p>The third great thing was that three completely awesome book-bloggers were there, two of whom I&#8217;d been corresponding with about hosting my blog tour in June&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestorysiren.com\/\">The Story Siren <\/a>(aka Kristi), <a href=\"http:\/\/thepageflipper.blogspot.com\/\">The Page Flipper <\/a>(aka Chelsea) and <a href=\"http:\/\/wastepaperprose.blogspot.com\/\">Wastepaper Prose <\/a>(aka Susan, who took pictures cuter than mine and you can see them on her blog.\u00a0 I&#8217;m showing you these so you can get the alternate perspective.\u00a0 Top row Susan, Julie, me, Kelly; Bottom row, Chelsea, Kristi, ladder.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Group-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-189\" title=\"Group-sm\" src=\"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Group-sm-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Group-sm-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Group-sm.jpg 919w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was great to celebrate with Julie and hang out with Kelly, whom I briefly shared a writer&#8217;s group with two years ago and who I&#8217;d always remembered for her kick-ass writing.\u00a0 She has a YA set in Santa Land (hope that&#8217;s okay to reveal!) that is so original and hilarious and will take the world by storm one day.\u00a0 I must say that while I occasionally dislike writing that everybody else enjoys, a surprisingly large percentage of the writing I think is great goes on to some kind of fame.\u00a0 So if I think you&#8217;re great&#8211;you will be!\u00a0 (Yes!\u00a0 It works just like that!)<\/p>\n<p>The final amazing thing, though, was the dedication of the bloggers.\u00a0 Between them, I think they drove 6 or 7 hours to attend the signing!\u00a0 Blook boggers (ha, I mean book bloggers) are inspiring in their dedication.\u00a0 They read and write reviews of more books in a week than I might in a month.\u00a0 They&#8217;re more on top of what&#8217;s being released than most writers I know, and they&#8217;re so generous about using their powers to help promote authors, no matter how new and humble we may be. I felt lucky to be able to spot these rare creatures in the wild, to chat with them a little, and to revel in the booky goodness of it all.\u00a0 In fact, I&#8217;m adding a new tag just for you: Book Blogger Lovin&#8217;.\u00a0 May it get used frequently!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several very cool things happened this weekend. First, fellow Louisville author, fellow Tenner, nifty gal Julie Kagawa released her young-adult novel THE IRON KING, which has been getting great buzz all over the internets.\u00a0 (It&#8217;s on my TBR pile.)\u00a0 Congrats, Julie! \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (That&#8217;s Julie\u00a0looking writerly next to her trademark Mountain Dew.) 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