SKINNY Launch Party: A Recap

Everybody do the SKINNY

Well, Donna's SKINNY is out in the world and she hosted a wonderful event on Saturday in Fort Collins, CO to celebrate. (Though the weekend started out a little sad, since Katherine had to cancel due to a family emergency, but we felt her spirit there in spades.)

Fort Collins is an awesome town and despite the snow (you read that right, SNOW) there was a terrific crowd for the party. The first hour was devoted to book signing, mingling, and mini-cupcake eating. Then Donna read a hilarious excerpt from the novel as well as a couple heart-wrenching emails from fans that the story has already touched. To round out the event (and being the classy lady she is), Donna then gave a champagne toast.

So THANK YOU, Donna, for being the hostess-with-the-mostest! We had a fantastic time.

GO SKINNY!!

Here are some pics:

(Most) of the Muses

Debbie Leland, Donna, SKINNY, and Kathi Appelt

Such a natural

Quite the party

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NOW, in case you have yet to click the link above, I wanted to share the info about learning from the Muses live.

Your Best Book Workshop

Guess what?!

The Muses will be leading a session and chat on October 24-25th, 2012 during the fantastic, week-long YOUR BEST BOOK Workshop hosted by Free Expressions. We're super excited about this opportunity since many of the YA Muses' successes are closely tied with Lorin Oberweger and the Free Expressions' team.

If you're at all interested in upping your writing game quickly and efficiently, we highly recommend this workshop for writers at any stage. Take a look at the following for details:

Webpage

Brochure

As you can see, the other staff are world class: Agents Josh & Tracey Adams (Adams' Literary), Executive Editor Nancy Conescu (Dial Books for Young Readers), Editor Emma Dryden (drydenbks LLC), Roman White (acclaimed music video director/writer), and Free Expressions' Brenda Windberg and Lorin Oberweger.

We'll also be doing a school visit (10/24) and book signing (10/25) in Charlotte, NC.

Here's the details on the book signing:

October 25th
4:30-6:00pm
ImaginOn (hosted by Park Road Books)
300 East Seventh St.
Charlotte, NC 28202

Hope to see you there!

5 comments

Jennifer Hoffine • October 9, 2012 at 5:31 AM

Congrats on the launch party. So cool that most of you could be together for it.

I'm giving away an ARC of Skinny this week...number of entries are based on how many of my September books people have read, and Under The Never Sky was one of those reads.