Post YALLFest Photo Recap

The Hubs and I had such a great time at YALLFest. I really hope we get to go again next year!

We stayed in town for the night and enjoyed some local Charleston scenery on Sunday.

We went out to Folly Beach. I HEART the beach soooo much! No way I was coming this close and not putting my toesies in the sand!

It was really quite lovely out there! I could have stayed all day and then some!

We also in enjoyed a ride around town with Carolina Polo Carriage Co. 

And finished our time in Charleston at A W Shucks.

Where Clayton surprised me by eating some of these. Traditionally hubs has a "no oyster policy" but he seemed to dig these. And they were mighty tasty!

Now it is time to get to reading all those books we bought!

YALLFest Photo Recap # 2

In this post you'll see me pose with some of the best authors ever! I'm so happy I got a chance to meet them and speak with them for a few moments. And I am so honored that they took the extra seconds to snap a pic with me. As crazy busy as YALLFest was because there were SOOO many people there, all of the authors made me feel like there were glad I was there. None of them were ungracious or unkind even in the rush of things. That's why authors are ROCKSTARS! They love their fans and their fans know it!

Holly Black

Ellen Hopkins

Melissa de la Cruz

Elizabeth Eulberg

Wendy Higgins and Tara Fuller

David Levithan

S.R. Johannes

Alyson Noel

Simone Elkeles

And perhaps one of my favorite but yet unofficial events, was dinner with several really 

cool bloggers and authors!

Starting at on the left side that's my hubs Clayton,

then me,

K8 from Froze8,

Liz from Elizziebooks,

Joli and Rachel from Actin' Up with Books,

Josh (huz-b to) Tiffani of Dangerous Observations

Author Simone Elkeles

Alli at Magnet 4 Books

Author Lauren Morrill

Kelsey of kelseyrdickson.com

and 

Author Assistant Extraordinaire--Melissa

YALLFest 2012 Photo Recap #1

This past weekend hubs and I spent some time in Charleston, South Carolina for YALLFest.
Let me just tell you, we had a blast! We got to meet several authors and get lots of books signed. We took a ton of pictures per our usual so I wanted to share them with y'all but there are so many I'm breaking them up into a couple of posts. Hope you enjoy the pics as much as we enjoyed taking them! 



The YALLFest website can be found here.

~Author Panels~

The ever talented Cassandra Clare!

Kiera Cass was such a good sport, we were at the end of her signing line and she was being rushed off to her next panel. But she was keeping it positive with a super cute thumbs up!

The movie based on their book Beautiful Creatures is comes out February 13, 2013!

You Tube singing sensation Abigail Ayala entertained us! Check out one of her songs here!

Authors do improv!

Upcoming in Alli's World: November

It seems like November is going to be a great month. We all know, it is the month of THANKSGIVING! Great food, family time, a day of reflection for all the things you have to be thankful for...that's awesome. But there are some other great things happening in my life this month in addition to Thanksgiving, am I blessed or what?

1. Today hubs and I are planning on playing "tourist" close to home. We are going to go to Toccoa, Georgia to see Currahee Military Museum. You know, like from the TV show Band of Brothers. I'm really excited to see this after my recent leadership class where we referenced the show on multiple occasions. We are also planning on visiting historic Travelers Rest. And whatever else we can get into during our day trip outing. 

Band of Brothers on DVD from Amazon.

2. This Sunday is the Athens area local bloggers meeting. If you are a blogger in the area, I really hope  you come out! It's at Avid Bookshop in Athens, GA. For info on the event click here.

3. Saturday, November 10th is YALLFest! This is the first time hubs and I have gone to this and I am soooo super duper excited. There are ton of amazing Young Adult authors scheduled to be in attendance. And it's in beautiful Charleston, SC. (Yaaaaaay!)

4. At the earliest, November 15th, "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2" will be in theater! (Ahhhhhh!) O. M. Geeeeee! I have been loving this series for years. It's so bitter-sweet, I hate it's coming to an end but I'm so ready to see it already! Click here for more info on the movie. 

Poster from imdb.

That's all I know about for now but wow, doesn't that sound like a great month already!? And of course we are going to have to start Christmas shopping at some point! I've got plenty of good books to read and I'm sure I'll be getting lots more for YALLFest. Just seems like a lot of goodness to me! (And it's my mom's birthday month! Whoo-hoo, Mama!)

So what have you got planned for this month?