Q: What can turn two debut authors into stuttering teenagers?
A: Meeting Melissa Marr.

For me, it was like meeting Mick Jagger. (Except Melissa is MUCH younger, cuter & cooler – yeah, I said it- cooler.) She is one of my absolute favorite authors, right up there with Flannery O' Connor & Ray Bradbury. So what's it like to meet an author you completely idolize? Surreal…

This is coming from someone who dragged all of Melissa's books (including WL: Desert Tales) into the Village Idiot, in her purse, and was too shy to pull them out. (Clearly, the Village Idiot was not just the name of the pub.) Would you pull out your concert tees and ask Mick to sign them?

Anyway, the good stuff…

She is as cool as she looks (notice she's wearing purple – some Beautiful Creatures synergy). She is nicer than your best friend, and treats you like you're hers. She has an awesome husband, Loch, who didn't make it into the picture because he was our photographer. She spent most of lunch saying incredibly generous things about our book (as if weren't the ones who were carrying her books around in our bags).

* I want her to move to LA & live next door to us, so we can hang out all the time (and maybe get a little writing advice…)