Author Reading: C. Lee McKenzie

Debutant Ball Spring 2009 post event thoughts on:

C. Lee McKenzie author of Sliding on the Edge

C. Lee's website

Book reviews:

mine here soon

Garden of Books

Shooting Stars Mag

Author interviews:

Writer Musings

YA Mamma

Feel free to comment below with your review links.


Post event thoughts:
C. Lee was up second at the event. She told some funny anecdotes about using the name "C. Lee" for her new publication. Like being referred to as Seal-y Posturpedic or being teased with Hi-C as in fruit punch. "C" is actually for Cheryl which she has used with previous works. Then, C. Lee got serious and read the first paragraph from her book, Sliding on the Edge.






Something's wrong. It's not a heart-grabbing noise like when somebody jiggles the doorknob to see if it's locked. It's not a bitter smell like the electrical short we had last month, when all the breakers popped. No. It's something in the air, something like a ghost making its way through the room. And it can't be Monster, not after last night.

Oooooh. Serious grit here.

During the Q&A, C. Lee mentioned that she got her inspiration for the novel from an article she read in the paper about students who purposefully injure themselves by cutting, burning or other methods.

C. Lee wins for cutest bookmark: silver horse charms :-D

Thanks for the reading C. Lee!

Author reading: Debutant Ball, Spring 2009

Another one I'm attending this week!

Let me know if you'll be there as well.

So far, Tales of a Ravenous Reader and Marth Flynn will be there.

Here are the details from Books Inc:

Debutant Ball, Spring 2009

Date:
Thursday, 5/14/09 at 7pm



Location:
Books Inc. Opera Plaza
601 Van Ness
San Francisco, CA 94102
Phone: 415-776-1111

Not Your Mother's Book Club™ (NYMBC) will host the Debutante Ball, featuring three (3!) awesome new YA authors:

Cheryl Renee Herbsman, author of BREATHING

Sarah Quigley, author of TMI

C. Lee McKenzie, author of SLIDING ON THE EDGE

Post event thoughts:
Another great evening of debut author readings!

Again pictures of the event can be spotted at Martha's site. Cheryl got some good pics too.

Another beautiful and warm evening in San Francisco. Some people dressed in fancy garb for the occasion. Colorful tiara's were given away along with sweet treats. Jennifer from Not Your Mother's Book Club started the event and introduced the authors. The three authors sat up front and gave intros, read from their books, answered a few questions from the audience and then signed books.

Along with the author signing session, purchasers of any or all of the three books were treated to a free book giveaway, The Chosen One by Carol Lynch Williams!

My thoughts on the individual authors readings are here:

Cheryl Renee Herbsman

C. Lee McKenzie

Sarah Quigley

Thanks for a fun night Jennifer!

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updated: 5.17.09
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