I volunteered at the event, and got to hang out a bit with some of the authors, met some of the other volunteers and some other bloggers, and made some great new friends.  Since I was volunteering, I didn’t get to go to all of the panels, but I did go to a couple and they were awesome!  And you know I had to buy some books and get them signed!

Those are all the pretties I bought and had signed at the festival, plus my very first physical book (The Charge) given to me for a review!  I’ve won ARCs before and I’ve been given eARCs and review books via my Kindle, but I’ve never actually been given a physical book for review before, so I’m very excited about that!  (Thanks so much to author Sharon Bayliss!)

I also took a couple of my own books to have signed and here’s a picture of those:

I was super, super excited to meet some of the authors at the festival and I tried to keep my fangirling to a minimum, although I’m not sure if I succeeded.  And why is it that I never even think to make sure my hair looks okay before I take a photo with an author?  Here are some photos of me and some of those authors I was excited to meet, with my hair just kind of doing its own thing… Yeesh.