Events Report: Richelle Mead Signing

Yesterday, I had the great pleasure of going to my first signing of the year at Southampton's Waterstones to meet Richelle Mead, author of the amazing (from what I've heard) Vampire Academy series. The event was an hour and a half long (6pm-7.30pm) but that was just enough time for me to learn alot of things about the author and the VA series!

The event started with Richelle taking a seat at the front of the shop and reading the first draft of Spirit Bound coming out in May 2010. She accidentally brought the uncorrected copy which is slightly different from the extract that will be published in the book which I thought was very cool as nobody else would have heard it. For any VA fans, the extract included Lissa (or Rose I can't remember) visiting a tarot card reading.

After reading the extract, Richelle took questions from the audience. She revealed that there would be six in the Vampire Academy series with also a possibility of a spin-off series focusing on another character. She also revealed that she had no idea as to what kind of market in the YA Vampire genre she was getting herself into as Twilight had just been released in the shops. She also told us that no TV or film companies has bought the rights to the VA series and she can't see them being made into something for the bigger or smaller screen. She also shared some tips on how to get published and how she started off wanting to write which was also very interesting. Anyway, I took some more snaps...

This is also another picture of her reading an extract.

This is me and her when she was signing my copy of Vampire Academy. She was very nice and she told me that she liked my scarf. The line was abit hectic but I managed to run straight to the front of an atleast half and hour wait.

And finally, here is a picture of Vampire Academy after it was signed. I also managed to nab a very cool pen!