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Event: Simon & Schuster Get-together!

A couple of weeks ago I attended the first blogger/publisher get-together at Simon and Schuster. It was great meeting up again with Jenny from Wondrous Reads (who I met first to have a book natter), Liz from My Favourite Books, Sophie from So Many Books, So Little TIme, Sassy from Alternative Reads, among others. I also got to meet the lovely Ally (Marketing/Web Manager) who I email on a regular basis, especially with regards to the Thriller & Suspense Reading Challenge I'm hosting.
So, once we all arrived at the London offices we were shown a film of some fab upcoming titles. The one's that excited me the most were: The Obelisk by Howard Gordon (Jan 2011), The Survivor by Sean Slater (March 2011), Crescendo by Becca Fitzpatrick (Oct 2010), The Night of the Solstice by L. J. Smith (Sept 2010) and Hellhole by Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson (Oct 2010).
Following the film we listened to a few questions and answers from a panel consisting of the Publishing Director, Suzanne Baboneau, Fictional Editor, Maxine Hithcock and Sarah-Jade, Sales Manager. It was very interesting, but I didn't write any of it down so can't relay it here.
We were then taken to another room where we met authors Paige Toon, Chris Carter and Tara Hyland who were all very lovely. They also signed their books for me!
Daughters of Fortune by Tara Hyland
There was also lots of naughty party food such as chocolate rolls, crisps and cupcakes (which I managed to resist) and Pimms (but I stuck to water). We were then given huge canvas bags and told to fill them to the brim with lots of yummy books! Which I did, twice...well there were too many books to fit into one bag, what's a girl to do?!
Here are my goodies:
Zombies & Vampires!
And some swag...who doesn't like a bit of swag ;)
It really was a lovely afternoon. Thank you to Ally for organising such a wonderful event and to all the staff at Simon & Schuster, it was really great to meet you all.
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15 comments:
Wow, looks like you had a great time there. :) Great books, great people... great fun!
so i have been trying to follow your blog for what feels like forever and today FINALY blogger allowed me too.
Looks like you had a fab time at S&S you will love Pleasure of a Dark Prince.... it was one of my Faves of Kresley's
Happy Monday xx atleast we got some sunshine in the UK so plenty of smiles from me
Yay, great post! It was a lovely afternoon and I much enjoyed our book talk :)
Oh look, Sassy :)
I could not have resisted those cupcakes, no way ;)
Sounds like you had such a great time
Oh..The Red Queen..pardon me while I drool over that in anticipation.
Catherine - I did have a great time - books, peeps, fun - what's not to love :)
Reading Busy Mom - I'm glad blogger allowed you to follow, thanks! I did have a fab time - I haven't read Kresley Cole before and as I only read series in order I will get the first in series I think. Have a great week! :)
Jenny - Thanks! Me too :)
Blodeuedd - It was difficult to resist the cupcakes, I did have a baby chocolate roll though :)
Mistress of Dark - I'm looking forward to reading The Read Queen, have bought The White Queen, so will start with that one first :)
Looks like a great time. Have a great week.
So happy that you enjoyed it! It was lovely to finally meet you and put a face to the name :)
Wow, it looks like you had a great time :)
looks like a great day! look forward to future reviews on all your great stuff
How totally FUN! I didn't even know that kind of event happens!
TOTALLY COOL!
You are going to love Of Saints and Shadows by Christopher Golden, the whole frickin series is brilliant. I haven't read them in years but now I'm going to have to go out and buy them all again.
Elie - Thanks, it was really fun! :)
Ally - I t was great to meet you too - hopefully S&S will do another event, it was such fun! Thanks so much for inviting me :)
Aleksandra - How could I not with all those books around me ;)
Fiction State of Mind - I will definitely be reviewing some of those books - esp the zombie/vampire ones for my All Hallow's Eve event in October :)
Lisa - Blogger/publisher events are only just starting to happen in the UK - I think they're great fun :)
Ryan - I'm really looking forward to reading that one, glad to hear it's brilliant! :)
What a cool event! Thanks for sharing this with us!
Wow, that looks like a great event. I like those small intimate publisher meetings where you get to learn about the new books coming out...and meet the people behind the books.