Wishlist Wednesday is a weekly meme, hosted at Pen to Paper Blog, in which we feature a book we can't wait to get off of our wish list and onto our shelves! For the month of May, I'm choosing to participate, but in a little bit different way. Each Wednesday I'm going to talk about something I'm wishing to happen at BEA this summer. This week I'm going to talk about the authors I'm hoping to meet in almost exactly 2 weeks!! Now, because the list is soooooo long, I'm going to stick to the authors I want to meet for the first time. So many authors I've met before that I can't wait to see again, but again, I'm going to shorten the list a bit this way. I'll list them in no particular order, other than going through my schedule, so they'll kind of be in order of how I will get to meet them.
- Lauren Oliver
- Jennifer Donnelly
- Lemony Snicket (he was there when I went 2 years ago, but I didn't get a ticket to meet him)
- Melissa de la Cruz
- Lois Lowry (I saw her at the Children's book breakfast 2 years ago, but didn't get to actually meet her)
- Billy Idol (yes, the 80's rock star, yes, he has a book!)
- Pseudonymous Bosch
- R.L. Stine (he was at a booth signing 2 years ago, and I walked by and got a picture, but didn't get to meet him)
- Douglas Preston
- BJ Novak (Ryan from The Office!)
- Gregory Maguire
- AG Howard
- Marie Lu
- Amanda Maciel
- Michael Grant
- Seth Grahame-Smith
- Stan Lee (Yes, THE Stan Lee of comic book fame!)
- CJ Lyons
- Cassandra Clare
- Libba Bray
- Jennifer Armentrout
- Wendy Corsi Staub
- JR Johansson (not on the schedule that I can find, but she told me she'd be there on Saturday)
- Grumpy Cat (yes, the internet sensation! I'm allergic to cats, but how can I not meet him?)
- Julie Kagawa: I met her when I went to BEA in 2012. BUT, while I knew of her, I hadn't read any of her books yet. Now that I have, I can really fangirl when I meet her again!
- Amy Plum: I think I met her last year at the RT Convention here in Kansas City, but again, I hadn't read any of her books yet. Now I can actually tell her how I liked them!
- Maggie Stiefvater: If you've followed me for awhile, you know that I've met Ms. Stiefvater many times. And that I have a cool connection of my picture being in a school biography type book of her. I really want to show her this, and get her autograph in it if possible, even though we're only supposed to have them autograph the book they are "officially" there for. I'm sneaking it in and trying it anyway. She is a ticketed author this year. Pretty cool!
