Official BEA Left-Out-Author Pity Party

BEA officially starts today in New York City. Some of my friends are there, speaking on panels and signing ARCs. My fabulous critique partner, Andrea Cremer (Nightshade, Oct. 2010) is speaking with Holly Black and Richelle Mead on the "Paranormal Fiction for Teens" panel tomorrow. Melissa Marr is speaking on the "YA Authors Crossing Over" panel on Thursday, and Kody Keplinger (The DUFF, Sept. 2010) is speaking on the "YA Authors of YA Editor's Buzz" panel, also on Thursday. If you're there, go see them and say hi for me!

I’m here. Not there. My ARCs were supposed to be out for BEA, but, due to circumstances beyond our control, that didn’t happen. If they were there, I might have gone to visit them and rub elbows with some amazing authors. Instead, I’ve decided to sponsor the Official BEA Left-Out-Author Pity Party for all us authors not at BEA this year.

Here’s how our pity party is going to work. We’re going to bring our cupcakes, and Skittles, and our coffee too, cuz we’re going to be busy. While our author friends are in New York, not writing, we’re going to. Write, that is. A lot. I plan to finish my first draft of book three in the Personal Demons series. (another 50K words or so)

Today and every day for the rest of the week, stop in and post your word count for the day in comments. On Friday afternoon, we’ll total up all our words and see how productive we’ve been. =)

What do you think? Are you up for the Official BEA Left-Out-Author Pity Party?

And, also, check back tomorrow for some fun Personal Demons cover news. :p