cindy pon
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ai ling and chen yong by shuangwen

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i commissioned a portrait of ai ling and
chen yong a while back from a digital artist,
shuangwen. she happens to be from guangxi,
the province that my mom is from! i couldn’t
be happier with it and hope to make postcards
from them to pass out as swag in the future! <3

thanks especially to courtney (ANGELFIRE,
HarperCollins/Katherine Tegan Books, 2/15/2011)
for recommending shuangwen to me!

i’ll be at the scbwi los angeles conference on saturday
only. eating mostly with friends. perhaps will make it
to one panel. but will definitely be at the gala–most
likely in my corset and awesome hat again. =D
if you see me, do say hi!!

i need a long nap comic-con post!

i survived san diego comic-con international 2010!!
i was there only friday and sunday and put in a solid
10 hours. and man, i’m so wiped out.
but i had loads of fun! and got to see and hang
out with some great friends! i was happy to
find megan quite by accident when i arrived on
friday in costume.

megan

we immediately went to the harpercollins booth
together! i’m supposed to be a “pirate queen”. i’d
be a pirate wench if i were more curvaceous. haha!
and let me just say straight up that corsets are no
joke. i nearly died trying to cinch myself into that
thing and it is for my 29″ waist.

no wonder those ladies fainted all the time.

pirates

megan and i were wandering around and she
took the place of sarah rees brennan as my
“comic-con boyfriend” this year. (megan named
it, ha!) tho megan got the much easier job. chun
li was so popular. i enjoyed the anonymity this
year. we were looking at gene yang’s graphic
novels when this chap tapped me on the shoulder
and asked for a foto. we were like pirate soul mates.
he let me hold his gun. ha! cause i appeared
weaponless, but i actually had a dagger in my right
boot. (i take my costuming very seriously. =)
you can just see it’s silver tip in the above foto!

geneyang

then megan and i went All the Way to the
other side of the con world to artist’s alley in search
of gene yang for a signature. (he was signing on saturday
but i wasn’t crazy enough to venture to con then.)
the crowds were insane. but megan blazed a trail for us!

gene was super sweet and fun to chat with.
i found out later that day he won the eisner with
derek kim for “Urgent Request” from The Eternal Smile.
congrats guys!!

senfaye

i actually “bumped” into quite a few people i knew
just by walking around. amazing considering how huge
the con is. here is senfaye with her adorable little sister!

khy

and here’s khy, one of my favorite teen book
bloggers! =D i was super early for kami and
margie’s arc signing of Beautiful Darkness but
my schedule got switched around meeting with
friends from michigan so i wasn’t able to see them
then. or hang with many of the other book bloggers
that were there. sorry i missed you guys!!

fangfest

*margie, kami, heather, me and heather’s son.
foto taken by the lovely vania!

i did get to hang out with kami and margie at
penguin’s “fangfest” party with heather brewer.
nancy holder showed up a little later too. that
was a very fancy party with an invite list, velvet
ropes and everything. had fun eating yummy food
and chatting with writerly friends.

another SDCCI post to follow this week
and also an awesome surprise. =D xo

ai ling & chen yong by natalie!

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squee!!! look at the wonderful portrait the
talented natalie whipple drew for me of ai ling
and chen yong together. don’t you love it?

be sure to click on the drawing to see a larger
version! i couldn’t be more thrilled. thanks so much
natalie!! i love it!!!

Bedeviled: Careful What You Wish For

bedeviled

i’m happy to feature shani petroff’s third novel
in the bedeviled series today!

Book Summary:

Being a teen is tough. Especially when your dad’s the
devil. Literally.

Angel is not sure she’ll ever gain control of the powers
she inherited from her devil father. All she meant to do
was help poor nerdy Max break into the popular crowd.
But somehow the wires got crossed and she ended up
granting all of her best friend Gabi’s secret desires instead.
Not that Angel has anything against Gabi getting what she
wants. It’s just that the things Gabi dreams about on the
QT—1) starring in a reality TV show with Angel at her side
and 2) dating Angel’s boyfriend, Cole—just happen to be
the stuff of Angel’s worst nightmares.

Author Bio:

Shani Petroff is a writer living in New York City. In addition
to tween and teen books, Shani writes for news programs
and several other venues. When she’s not locked in her
apartment typing away, she spends a whole lot of time on
books, boys, TV, daydreaming, and shopping online. She
has no devil lineage as far as she knows.

more on shani : http://www.shanipetroff.com

amazon linky love!

congrats, shani!!

surf’s up, baby!

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i survived my first try at “surfing” with
megan as my coach. she was really great
and i had a blast! more soon… =)
i did eat well after, yum!

congrats to becky who won the tgifbm!
extravaganza giveaway! there will be another
big giveaway soon, san diego comic-con international
style! don’t forget, i’ll be moderating a panel
on sunday at noon.

SUNDAY, JULY 25, 2010
noon – 1pm in Room 24ABC
Blood, Sweat and Tears: Teen Angst in Young Adult Fiction
Panelists: Nancy Holder, D.J. MacHale, James Owen, Christopher Pike,
Kathy Reichs, Emily Drake, Neal Shusterman and Michael Spradlin
Moderated by Cindy Pon

hope to see you at the con!! =)