Day 2 of BEA ended up being waaaay more packed than the 1st day, but also less stressful if you can believe it. With having the the day before in mind, we were able to plan our day to our advantage.
The day for me started out with me running to the Macmillan booth in hopes of getting a ticket to the
Metaltown 9:30am signing, once we were let onto the floor, but unfortunately I got there right as they ran out of tickets. So onto the
Audrey Coulthurst 10am signing I went, she was one of my most anticipated authors for BEA so I was very happy to have been lucky enough to be roughly 25th in line!
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Amy Lukavics signing The Woman
in the Walls |
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| Eleanor Herman and I |
From 11am-11:30am, I was in line for
Amy Lukavics and
Eleanor Herman. At these times, they both had separate signings. They were signing
The Woman in the Walls and
Empire of Dust. Both ladies were the sweetest, and both had the cutest style! With Amy wearing a spiderweb dress and Eleanor dressing fancy to match her books!
When I was in line for Eleanor, I was actually able to meet Bayram from
Never Ending Books! I had first met him line when I first became a blogger, and it was awesome to finally be able to meet him! I actually was able to hang out with him a lot through out BEA, after him I also started to meet so many other amazing bloggers that I am friends with online! Although I didn't recognize many faces at first, it was heart whelming to have had them recognize me and say hello! Even with me being in aw for most of the convention, the peak of the aw factor was definitely when I got to meet bloggers in person!
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| Becca from Pivot Book Totes |
Including Bayram, I was also able to meet Brittany from
Brittany's Book Rambles, As some of you already know, I adore her. So it was a FABULOUS experience! Becca from
Pivot Book Totes, Becca is another person that I met when I first started blogging, and I learned so much from her when I first started blogging. It was an honour to meet her! Nori from
Read Write Love 28, known as the Blogger Mom, Nori is one of the sweetest people you'll ever meet, she's just as sweet in person as she is online! And that's just some of the fabulous people I got to meet! I can't even begin to list or remember them all!
From there I was forced to join the two insanely long lines for the Macmillan 1pm ticket drop. Sounds weird right? That's because it was. There wasn't an official ticket line until 12:45, I got there at 12pm. With nothing organized, it was chaos. In the end there was a stampede, and MANY unhappy people. All to get a ticket for the
Marissa Meyer signing of her latest novel,
Heartless. This ticket drop was by far the worst experience of BEA, right next to the second ticket drop for Marissa but that's a story for Day 3. Please take a look at the video below, just to see how hectic the whole day got.
But in the end I was able to get a ticket for
Vassa in the Night, and so my day would go on nicely. I wouldn't let not getting a ticket ruin my day.
Both my sisters are big book nerds, just like myself. So I promised that there would be a few books that I'd pick up for them. Both had very specific requests, the youngest with a super small list and the other with a huge one. All the books on their lists being super hard to get, or not at BEA at all. So to actually get one from that super small list, I had to go to a
Ransom Riggs signing. Ransom was signing
Tales of the Peculiar. So after the Eleanor signing, I was off to see if I could get a ticket to his signing.
After rushing there, I was able to get my hands on a ticket, but not only was the line HUGE, the 'book' that Ransom was signing turned out to only be a sampler. So I was forced to wait in an half an hour signing for a sampler that wasn't even going to be for me. At least in the end my sister was satisfied.
From there I ran to the
Jennifer Niven,
Holding Up the Universe signing line where Stephanie (
Doodle's Book Reviews) was holding a spot in line for me. Having not read All the Bright Places yet, I didn't really have much to say to Jennifer. But in all, she was such a sweetie anyway.
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| Jennifer Niven signing Holding Up the Universe |
From there I went straight to the
Sarah Porter signing for
Vassa in the Night. Where I once again ran into Bayram! So for the duration of the signing line, I was able to have someone that I knew to
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Steph (Doodle's Book Reviews), Bayram (Never Ending
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hang with. Which did't happen all that often, but you did make friends wherever you went.
After that I had an hour to kill, so I used that time for food. Honestly, with everything going on you would always forget about basic things like food, water, and bathroom breaks. That was probably one of the biggest things about the convention that you really needed to worry about. Carrying snacks in your bag was a must throughout everything.
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| Adam Silvera |
From there I went to my last signing of the day, which was for
Adam Silvera and
History is All You Left Me. Where I could not give up the chance at messing with
Adi Alsaid. Adi had some what threatened to not be friends with people who got to meet Adam, as well as if you read
History is All You Left Me before him. And so, this is how the following photo came to be.
I was also lucky enough to have met the
OwlCrate ladies while waiting in line for Adam's signing. They were the sweetest! They even asked for my business/blogger card!
While I was in line for Adam, the
Empire of Storms cover was released. From what I heard there was an ENORMOUS crowd surrounding the Bloomsbury booth, and the crowd was just as excited as I was to see the cover. The cover did not disappoint as you all have probably seen. It was at a bit of a point where people were in line for selfies with the cover, I mean how could one resist a selfie?
After that my day ended with me in the 5pm Epic Reads Drop line for
Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake. Steph and I had missed the drop the day before, so I wanted to be firstish in line to make sure that I got it. With Steph still in line somewhere else and me holding our spots roughly 40 minutes before the drop, I thought for sure that she would make it. But as I waited with a few other lovely ladies, someone who was originally in line with us, (we were still holding a spot for her.) very slowly approached us and whispered how
Caraval, was being given out at the Macmillian booth in tote bags. Being one of the most anticipated books at BEA, and having not a lot of information on how to get it at the convention, it was in all of our best interests to run. That's exactly what we did, after throwing a quick text to Steph about the tote bags, I was off. Running in and out, I was super quick and was also able to get back my position in the
Three Dark Crowns line. Something I did not know until I was back in line, was that
Stephanie Garber was
actually at the booth signing the ARCs that they handed out. With the Epic Reads drop line being closed off, Steph was not able to get back in line with me but she, as well as her mom were able to get their ARCs of
Caraval signed. Her mom actually got hers signed to me because she knew I missed out on getting mine signed. So in the end we swapped and we were both happy!
And finally my Book Haul from day 2!
There you have it! Day 2 of BEA! Day 2 was probably my biggest hauls of all three days, and one of my most jam packed!
If you haven't seen my other posts from BEA you can see those here:
Until the next post!
Kenneth was a joy to meet, he had such a sense of humour! I was lucky enough to have had dinner and lunch with him, as well as a bunch off other members from the group. With The Boundless being about a train, we ended just discussing trains and my trip to Churchill, Manitoba for a majority of the time. It was a blast to have had the chance to have seen him so many times!
