I’ve been receiving a lot of traffic lately from people googling BEA! If you’re looking for my 2011 BEA daily recaps, Teen Author Carnival photos, and expo “advice” posts, you...
On May 8, NYC’s Books of Wonder hosted a launch party for Amy Plum’s second book in the Revenants series, “Until I Die”. She was joined by local authors Jocelyn Davies, and Kr...
One of my favorite YA authors, Veronica Roth *finally* made it to NYC earlier this month to promote the release of her new book Insurgent. Book 2 in the Divergent trilogy. If you’ve been living...
Last month, one of my favorite NYC bookish events returned for it’s annual appearance! The NYC Teen Author Festival. It was a busy work week for me, with back to back photo shoots mixed in with...
Welcome to today’s stop on the Asylum blog tour! Author KA Tucker has written a lovely guest post delving deeper into the magic system used in her intriguing, heart-pounding paranormal series. ...
Our Christmas tree. Hope everyone is having a very Merry Christmas! <3 Bookshelf Lust ®2011 Rachel Scroggins
I’ve been MIA for most of the summer/early fall do to an increase in work responsibilities (Fashion Week, and all the pre-planning involved in attending and photographing over 40 shows pretty m...
Last week, Books of Wonder in NYC hosted what has to be one of the most interesting and entertaining book signings I’ve been to yet for Maureen Johnson’s new YA novel “The Name of t...
Dearly, Departedwill forever be remembered as the novel that made me fall in love with zombies. I’m actually not a very big fan of zombies. At all. Much like my fear of heights, which unexpectedly sh...
Evangeline has spent her teenage years in obscurity. Her foster parents have the emotional aptitude of robots and her classmates barely acknowledge her existence. About to turn eighteen and feeling l...
At Books of Wonder, 6/30/11. Last week, before the holiday madness began, I was able to stop by Books of Wonder to meet a quartet of amazing teen authors. I had a photo shoot beforehand, which ended ...
I’ve been out of NYC more than in so far this summer. Luckily this weekend, I was able to attend one of my favorite summer city events, the Jazz Age Lawn Party. Called a “Great Gatsby par...
HOT! A handful of book blogger friends and I just had an epic conversation on twitter about “sexy scenes” in YA. It started after someone mentioned the upcoming release Mephisto Covenant ...
Saturday, on what would have been just a boring and disgusting rainy day in NYC, I went to one of the best author/blogger events I have ever been to! I started my weekend pretty bummed out about miss...
Over the past three weeks I’ve received some really awesome books. Things have been slower book wise, compared to the insanity of BEA. But I am actually thankful for that! My TBR pile has taken...
If you’ve been reading this blog since it’s inception, you know how much I fan-girl Stephanie Perkins. Anna and the French Kiss was one of the very first reviews I wrote. It was also my #...
“It’s the beginning of summer in North Hampton, and beautiful Freya Beauchamp is celebrating her engagement to wealthy Bran Gardiner, the heir to Fair Haven and Gardiners Island. But Freya is drawn t...
On Wednesday, the second official show day of Book Expo, I arrived right on the expo floor right in time for the doors to open. Suddenly, the people around me were running in every direction, and I h...
I started my second day of BEA by breaking the cardinal rule of attending book expo: don’t be late. My roommate Jenn (a media publicist) and I both seemed to have trouble getting out of the apt...
BEA feels like one hundred years ago after the madness of the last week! After returning to the US Monday, and editing all of my Jamaica trip *and* BEA photos, I’m finally ready to share my exp...
I am finally catching up with life after BEA, and and after my weekend photo trip to Jamaica. I’m now working on some fun daily recaps which should be up soon, editing photos from BEA and the T...
BEA was even more amazing than I expected. But it was also incredibly overwhelming. Nothing anyone had told me about attending prepared me for the actual experience. I’ll be doing full recap po...
The event listings just keep on coming! I mentioned the 2K11 book signing at Books of Wonder in the post belowthis one. Well now I present to you a whole week’s worth of 2K11 events happening d...
BEA is just under a week away, but I am already feeling the “omg so much to do!” insanity and falling behind on reviews. Along with my regular work, doing fun things like shooting a beaut...
I got some really great career news today, and it’s almost my birthday. So I thought I’d do a spontaneous book giveaway to celebrate and share some of the excitement. (Plus honestly, my h...
I’ve seen at least half a dozen blog posts in the last week about “surviving BEA”. Wearing comfortable shoes, not being afraid to socialize, blogger etiquette, etc. Yet not a single...
“With her knack for being in trouble’s way, Sookie witnesses the firebombing of Merlotte’s, the bar where she works. Since Sam Merlotte is now known to be two-natured, suspicion fal...
Last night, I went to another amazing book signing at Books of Wonder in NYC. I almost skipped it to go see Charlaine Harris at a nearby Barnes and Noble. But once I realized how many of my friends w...
Back when I first started blogging, I kept coming across Sarah MacLean‘s name on a lot of other book blogs. The more time I spent on Goodreads, the more I noticed her books popping up on friend...
Vi knows the Rule: Girls don’t walk with boys, and they never even think about kissing them. But no one makes Vi want to break the Rules more than Zenn…and since the Thinkers have chosen him as Vi’s ...
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