Do Mix: Debutante Writers and Connie

I just got back from Not Your Mother's Book Club's Debutante Ball featuring authors Cheryl Renee Herbsman, Sarah Quigley, and C. Lee McKenzie.



Jennifer set the stage with goodies








Each author (from left to right in the picture) gave a short introduction and reading.

Cheryl Renee Herbsman writes like molasses and is just as sweet. Her story about an asthmatic southern girl falling in love with a boy just as he leaves town is sure to require tissue.

Sarah Quigley's just so omg cool and was the only one wearing a tiara (awesome!). Her novel, TMI, features a heroine guilty of the dreaded overshare - like all of us!

C. Lee McKenzie had me enraptured from her first sentence - and everyone else judging by how her book sold out before I could get a copy of her compelling story of self mutilation.


I made a beeline for Cheryl and guess who I found - my friend in book-stalkery:

CONNIE!!!!!

Jennifer threw in a bonus copy of Carol Lynch Williams' much buzzed The Chosen One about a girl in a polygamy community. Yay for free unexpected books!