Friday was the last day of BEA, which was both NOOOOO! and YESSSSS! at the same time. “NOOOOO!” because I don’t want it all to end and “YESSSSS!” because I was so tired and just wanted my bed near me already for a nice long sleep. I was extremely busy at Day One of BEA and woke up mighty early at Day Two of BEA. By Day Three, I was so ready to leap onto my bed and sleep like the dead.
On Friday, I woke up at 5:30AM and almost woke up later than that because I forgot to put the sound option on on my alarm. Oops! Thank goodness my mind has an internal alarm clock of its own or else I would be wayyy late for BEA. I arrived at Javits at around 7:40AM, found Danielle, and put down all my bags on the floor. Realizing that I never took many pictures of Javits, I wandered around, taking many pictures of all the book advertisements and some of the exhibits that I could see from my place on line. I also learned that this year, BEA was featuring China. No wonder there were so many Chinese posters and exhibits all around Javits Center!
While waiting in line for the doors to open, I heard that Penguin had tweeted out that ARCs of Soundless was dropping as soon as doors open at the Penguin Random House booth. Cue the freakout as Soundless was my number one priority book to get at BEA. Getting Soundless at the beginning of BEA would also help loosen up my schedule.
Also while waiting in line to enter the exhibit floor, Nori from ReadWriteLove28, Nikki from Fiction Freak, and I also encountered the rudest man ever. We were chatting with other bloggers – Holly from The Fox’s Hideaway, Shannon from It Starts At Midnight, and Val from The Innocent Smiley – when this man suddenly came up to us and told us that he had been waiting in line since 6:30AM and would give us (Nori, Nikki, and I) five minutes to chat with our friends. If we’re not gone by five minutes, he would be calling the security guard to take us away, which was whaaaat? So we weren’t allowed to talk to our friends and we will be TIMED if we want to? We were of course mad because who was he to order and threaten us around so rudely like that?, but since we didn’t want to start anything, we just left the area. Hopefully karma will have to say something about how he acted though.
After that, it was time to enter the exhibit hall. I immediately speed-walked to the Penguin Random House booth and was lucky enough to snag myself an ARC of Soundless. I then went to the Harpercollins booth with Nikki, where we both stepped into line for the galley drop for Patrick Ness’ The Rest of Us Just Live Here. After that, I rushed to the Autographing Center for Kelley Armstrong’s thirty-minute signing.
After Kelley Armstrong’s signing, I stopped by the Algonquin booth and snagged myself an ARC of Beastly Bones. I then slowly walked to the Disney booth, which was still doing the Black Widow signing. I decided to stay near the Disney booth and lurk nearby since I was told that Disney would be dropping A Whole New World right after the Black Widow signing. You do not want to know how much I NEED A Whole New World. I just can’t resist that font for the title.
While I was lurking by the Disney booth, I saw Nikki at the Blood and Salt signing, which was located right across the Disney booth. I chatted with Nikki about random things for awhile because that’s the thing we’re best at doing. There, on the Blood and Salt line, I met Emily Lloyd-Jones, author of Illusive and Deceptive, and she was the sweetest person ever! Emily told me she loved my blog (if you’re reading this, thank you so much Emily – you saying this means so much to me!) and gave me some Illusive bookmarks.
Sarah Dessen (left) and Carrie Ryan (right) talking about their books
After the Sarah Dessen and Carrie Ryan luncheon, it was around 1PM to 1:10PM. Jon and I rushed to the exhibit floor to the Autographing Center to stand in line for Richelle Mead’s signing as I wanted to meet her. Her line was surprisingly not as long as I had expected, but then again, we probably went there a little bit too early as thirty minutes later, Richelle Mead’s line became very long. Richelle Mead was so adorable and she told me that Soundless was indeed a standalone. On the Richelle Mead line, I also saw a woman wearing an amazing bookish dress she created. I asked her if I could take pictures of her and her dress, and she agreed. It turns out that the pages of the books on her dress were actual beginning pages from each of the featured books.
After Richelle Mead’s signing, I wandered around the show floor with nothing to do. I decided to stop by the Harlequin Adult signing that will start at 4PM and sat down at the Harlequin area at around 3PM. There, I chatted with other bloggers I haven’t met before and learned that the autographing line for Six of Crows line was shut off thirty minutes early since they’ve reached the full hundred people already. However, they forgot to account for people with the Front of the Line pass for the Autographing Center who would use it for Six of Crows, which left twenty plus people that waited on the line without Six of Crows. Thank goodness Macmillan was awesome and kind enough to give us Six of Crows at the Macmillan Happy Hour on Thursday.
My friend Danielle was so nice (and awesome!) and helped me snag the two Harpercollins galleys that I wanted: Dumplin’ and What We Saw since the galley drop for those two books was the same time as the Harlequin Adult signing. Thank you Danielle!
Hello, Goodbye, and Everything In Between by Jennifer E. Smith
What We Saw by Aaron Hartzler
Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy
Royal Wedding by Meg Cabot
Not If I See You First by Eric Lindstrom
If You Only Knew by Kristan Higgins
The Masked Truth by Kelley Armstrong
Dream Things True by Marie Marquardt
The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness
Soundless by Richelle Mead
A Whole New World by Liz Braswell
Beastly Bones by William Ritter
Nowhere But Here by Katie McGarry
Saint Anything by Sarah Dessen
Daughter of Deep Silence by Carrie Ryan
Hold Me by Susan Mallery
Fatal Affair by Marie Force
I decided to share the BEA love by giving away an galley I got at BEA at the end of each recap post. Today, I am giving away the ARC of Royal Wedding by Meg Cabot.
Terms & Conditions:
- This contest is open INTERNATIONALLY.
- The giveaway will run until July 5, 2015.
- You must be 18 years or older, or have parents’ permission to enter.
- All your entries will be disqualified if you pickup entries for something you haven’t done. (I had to do this for so many of my last giveaways, please don’t make me do this again.)
- If you only use ONE account to do all these tasks and enter under different names, they will still only constitute as ONE entry.
- If the winner does not respond to my e-mail within 48 hours, I will have to choose another winner.
- I am not responsible for any items lost in the mail.
Thank you so much for the giveaway. This sounds like an amazing book!
BEA seems so fun, yet so exhausting at the same time! I hope I can go someday. And that book dress is awesome :)
Sophie @ Seamless Reader recently posted…Waiting On Wednesday #10: The Lies About Truth
Thank you for including ne in your article!
BEA sounds so fun. Sad I wasn’t able to go this year, especially since next years will be in Chicago :(
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Thank you soo much for this beautiful giveaway <3
I’m so glad you had a good time, also thanks for the giveaway! :)
Omg, that guy was so rude. He had NO right to say that you guys!
Also that “Royal Wedding” ARC is so pretty :3
BEA 2015 seems like a success! I hope you can relax and sleep now that those three busy days are over. Enjoy all the new exciting reads too!
Meredith @ A Book Lover’s Corner recently posted…The Broken Hearts’ Society of Suite 17C by LeighAnn Kopans Blog Tour
I’m dying to read The Royal Wedding! I’ve always been a fan of Princess Diaries ever since!
Thanks for the awesome giveaway, Kelly. Appreciate it. :)
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I hope some year that I go to BEA to get to go to a lunch or breakfast or any publisher party. Looks like you had a great time. There always seems to be just one rude person at least.
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Karma has apparently gotten to him, since his newspaper was shut down and he has no job, even though he still lists it on his BEA badge. I had fully planned to write a letter about his behavior to his supervisor, but he has no job so… Sad. I totally get why you guys left too, but man, I would have enjoyed arguing with him more, just to put him in his place! That guy is the worst. Glad you had such a lovely day though (I totally bet he did not ;) ), and that girl’s bookish dress is fabulous! It must have taken her so long! How did I miss her?! That’s pretty epic!
Shannon @ It Starts At Midnight recently posted…BEA Lessons from a Not-So-Newbie
I AM IN HERE!!! :D So, so glad we got to meet properly on Friday, even though that guy was so totally out of line and rude and ruined it all. But I’m happy the rest of the day went well for you. And oh my gosh, I saw that girl and her dress a lot. IT IS SO AWESOME!! So creative.
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The books that people have been getting at BEA are books that I’ve been waiting for forever! Can’t wait to see what you think of them!
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Ew. Rude people can go live in a country together because the rest of us don’t need that. I hope you had an amazing time, nevertheless <3 YOUR BOOKS ROCK!
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I lovedreading your recaps. Too bad I couldn’t be there…
I’m so mad because I wanted to OFFICIALLY meet you but that RUDE MAN. If it makes you feel better Shannon lashed out on him. PLUS his company is apparently bankrupt and closed, so I don’t know WHY he was at BEA under that name, but I guess Karma got him :P
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You are so lucky Kelly. <3 And I'm so thrilled you had the most amazing time at BEA :) Yay for meeting Carrie Ryan. <3 I adore her. And ugh, that book dress looks awesome too :D I just, I have loved reading your thoughts about being at BEA. <3 Sounds like so so much fun. And busy. And a bit of torture too, lol, yet worth it :) Thank you for sharing these posts sweetie. <3
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fun dress idea
Since I couldn’t make it to BEA, I enjoy reading of your adventures a lot! ;) Thank you for the giveaway!
You’re so lucky you got to go to BEA! Thanks for the giveaway!
What an awesome day you have! I wish I’d been there.
So so jealous you met all these authors! Thank you for the giveaway :)
OMG! Kelly I am catching up with your blog..coz i have been seriously busy with my work and it takes a toll out of me. You have been very busy as well. I am glad you still had a great time despite the unfortunate experience of coming across that rude rude man!
You book hauls are FAB!!! I am hoping that I will get to meet L. Bardugo when she comes to my city this month!
You are very lucky! Thank bookish dress is awesome!!!!!
Thank you for the chance.
Thank you so much for the giveaway :)
It’s always hard to say goodbye to an event, even if you are tired, especially as you completely loved it! I loved reading about the brilliant time you had and also hope you can go next year! Royal Wedding is one I would love to read :D I absolutely loved the Princess Diaries series when I was younger and was SO happy when I heard she was continuing it. :)
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You’re so lucky. I always wish to be gone in BEA but I’m just unfortunate.
Nice book haul.
Thanks for this! :)
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This is so great! Thank you for doing this! ♥
Cant wait to read this book!