Gayle Forman is fantastic.

Recently I went to book signing featuring Gayle Forman!

Here are photos, because photos are fun (this post is mostly for Adele, who loves Gayle and was jealous of me. Sorry Adele.):

Here is the display that was right in front of the doors to the store:


Here is Gayle reading:


After she read, there was a bit of Q&A. At one point, it got very quiet during the Q&A because no one had any questions, so Gayle said something like "let's talk about the YA blogosphere and how great it is. Do any of you read any YA blogs?" And then I was thinking "I HAVE ONE OF THOSE!", except because I'm very shy and awkward in person, when I said I have one, it came out like "...I-i have one."

By the way, she loves YA bloggers. We are ~popular.~

Oh, and she also mentioned that she just read an upcoming book called Hold Still by Nina Lacour, and she really liked it. So we all must watch for that one.

This is a special picture for Adele, who at one point on twitter said "Cheers - what are the chance she could be holding a 'I love Adele' sign LMAO...I am kidding. Just send my best wishes/air kiss." Well, Adele, I just so happened to have paper and pen, and...



And Adele? I delivered all your messages to her. She was happy.

Here is Gayle and I:


Gayle is so awesome! She's so nice and she loves bloggers so much. She wins a nonexistent Awesome Award.

Other things that happened at the event:

• Gayle talked about the If I Stay movie and her meetings with some special movie people.
• She talked about how much that EW review sucks.
• There was a Penguin sales rep there who also said Hold Still is very good, so this book must go on everyone's wishlist.
  
• Jordyn showed up! Jordyn is still awesome too.
• And I may have gotten an extra copy of If I Stay signed for something that could resemble a giveaway. Maybe. Maybe not. Stay on the lookout.