because I am this tight with MC Hammer. Don't I look like a total dork with my mouth all askew? :) Here we are at the Ypulse Conference in San Francisco, where I also got to meet the awesome Melissa Walker, author of the Violet on the Runway series which I absolutely love -- I mean, seriously. Violet is this awesome geeky, awkward, freakishly tall and totally unpopular high school girl who gets discovered by a top modeling agency and becomes this amazing model...but guess what? Her problems don't magically go away. And since author Melissa has seen the inside view of the modeling industry (she has an article in the current issue of Teen Vogue, too), she is the perfect author to tell it like it is. I love this series and can't wait to read book three, Violet in Private, which comes out August 5.
I also met Justina Chen Headley, author of Girl Overboard and one of founders of the amazing Readergirlz. With her was her very cool son, who rocked.
And then there was David Levithan who claims half responsibility for Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist. He's also an editor at Scholastic and is involved in the upcoming 39 Clues, which is getting a lot of buzz. David and I shared the stage with Mortified author Dave Nadelberg and spent about 30 minutes embarrassing ourselves talking about our teen experiences.
And I can't forget to mention very cool editor Cindy Eagan from Little, Brown, who was a blast.
Awesome conference! You? Must come next year, okay? Okay.
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By: Lisa McMann,
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You met the hammer?
I can't touch that!
But was he wearing the pants?
Oh, look at you with your bad self! The conference sounds too fun.
So cool to meet you, too, Lisa!
You are 2 legit 2 quit Lisa.
Ok, that was the best Hammer line I could come up with since wade stole the best one.
Glad you had a great time!
Damn your hair got long!
You people make me laugh.
OMG!
thank you so much for the comment on my blog.
i didn't even know. but my friend emailed me and was like "did you write to her or something? because she commented." and i was like WHAT!
and then i screamed, like so loud it was silent.
i think i had a heart attack.
yeah, can Fade come out like next week?
<3<3 lizzy
Oh dear! Didn't mean to give you a heart attack. I just loved your review. :)
I wish FADE could come out next week. But I wouldn't want to overshadow the Breaking Dawn release, ha ha!
Thanks again, Lizzy.
xo
Lol I had no idea that you had a blog until like right now and the first thing I saw was you with M.C. Hammer :] It made me laugh :P