Getting up for a 7 AM east coast time (4 AM west coast) breakfast was difficult, but worth it. The breakfast was held at the National Press Building, which you can visit by invitation only. We got to look around the building a bit afterwards, and they have very old newspaper plates decorating the walls, and photos of all the famous journalists and people who have visited.
It was a small group of only about 40 people, so it was pretty exclusive. They invited many from Quick Picks and the new Best Fiction for Young Adults group. Had some kind of a pastry filled with eggs and stuff I couldn't identify, but it was delicious. Got to meet a new author of the book:
A partly biographical story of a girl who is institutionalized. Tracy White was so sweet, she is really putting her whole soul out there, so I wanted to read the book.
We also got the ARC of the sequel to Lockdown: Escape from Furnace, which is an awesome book about escaping from a future underground prison:
Lauren Wohl, who does Marketing for Roaring Brook, First Second :01 and Simon Boughton introduced everyone, and we got to sit with the woman who does the jacket art on books. Found out that a lot goes in to selecting the covers, and many times they get changed. The buyer from Borders is so powerful that they can ask the cover to be changed, and it will, because it means more copies will sell.
Met THE Simon Boughton, who I thought was the company name, but turns out was a real person. Well I know that publishers are real people, but usually old or dead people, and Simon is a very handsome young man with an attractive English accent. I wish he'd sat at our table.
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