Stephenie Meyer

Some of my friends and I are just a little obsessed with Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Series. So when we found out she was coming to Kansas City on a book tour for her newest novel, The Host, we decided to fully embrace our nerdiness and started planning. We got our tickets, we made our shirts, and we figured out rides. Thanks to all of our great planning (props to Karen and Shannon) we got awesome seats--five rows from the stage. The ten of us took up a whole row. While we waited for the event to start we talked to some of the other fans. We met one group that came for a Young Women's activity. Lots of people had shirts, but we got quite a few compliments on ours. Several strangers even asked for our pictures because they loved our shirts so much. Here are some pictures of the Vampire Girls.


All TEN of us. Back Row: Karen, Trina, Shannon, Maren. Front Row: Carolyn, Jen, Michelle, Leiann, Me, Kim.

Here are the early arrivals before we got into the auditorium. And below Jen, Trina, and I save seats.

Stephenie Meyer talked for about half an hour. She did a reading from her newest (non-Vampire) book and answered some of the questions that had been submitted by the audience. She seems like a really impressive person to me--really nice and down to earth. She talked about how she never aspired to become an author but that once she started writing she couldn't stop. After her talk we waited to get our books signed. It took a long time. I got my book signed around 9:30 and the last person in our group got hers signed around 10:30. All the waiting was totally worth it.