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Road Trip! 

11/14/2014

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My apologies on not posting the last couple of days. Oops. I'll try to make up for lost time by actually posting everyday from now on. Today's post is about a road trip that I went on with my lovely writer friend, Jessie Mae Hodsdon. Visit her site HERE. This is us having a super wicked awesome time: 
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The whole point of the trip was for a Stephen King book signing. For those of you who don't know, I'm a huge fan of Mr. King (I mean, I live in the same place as him, so I guess I should be a fan), especially his books On Writing & Mr. Mercedes. They're great reads, by the way, if you haven't already read them. His new book Revival came out, so he's doing a book tour to a few different places. One of those places happens to be South Portland, Maine. Anyway, you had to get a ticket early. BAM opened at 9:00am, and Jessie Mae and I left at 7:00am to get there on time. I hadn't even considered that there would be SO many people waiting to get a ticket to the book signing. It's weird, because though I know that Stephen King is one of the most well known authors, I didn't know that a book would draw such a crowd. (Silly me). My jaw literally  

dropped when we got to the bookstore. There were going to be 500 tickets offered, and there were at least 1,000 people there. I was about 150 people from the front of the store when the cashier announced this. Cue Elysia getting very disappointed but not throwing a hissy fit. All this to say, I will not be able to attend the book signing of one of my favorite authors. One of my friends suggested that I just knock on his door, but I can't stoop to that kind of stalkery. I suppose I'll just have to wait until I bump into him at a local restaurant. If we ever DO meet, Mr. King, don't be alarmed if I ask for a selfie, because if a selfie didn't happen, we didn't meet. OK, not really, but in today's social media obsession, you can only expect a selfie. 

The day still turned out wonderful, mostly because Jessie Mae is the coolest person ever, and we're so similar that the day was supah fun. We went shopping, and I got a pair of Bean boots (for those of you that aren't Mainers, Bean boots, or L.L. Bean boots, are a staple if you're a Mainah), a few shirts, AND a book that I've been dying to buy. Here's said book:



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It's called The Walled City, and is by author Ryan Graudin. The book actually just came out on November 4th, so I was excited to have been able to find it in the store. I have high hopes for this book, and I'll be sharing with all of you how it is. Yet another book to add to my "to read" list for this month/year. 

That's about it for this post, but I'll be posting again tomorrow! Follow me on Twitter for more updates! @Elysia_Regina.
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    Hello! My name is Elysia. I've written since I was six years old, and I wrote my first novel when I was twelve. I'm from Maine, and now live in Charleston, South Carolina. As far as random happy things, I've ridden a Clydesdale on the beach in California, zip-lined and swum in caves in Mexico with bats and stalactites, and spoken to an audience of 1,500. I own an old typewriter and one of Pete Wentz from FOB's guitar picks. I love to travel, and have visited nearly every US state, Canada, Bermuda, Puerto Rico, St. Maarten, the US and the British Virgin Islands, Mexico, Jamaica, the Cayman Islands, Curaçao, Bonaire, Aruba, Switzerland, and Barcelona.  I also dream of one day watching the ball drop in New York City. I love to type (I know, I'm a weirdo), and can type approximately 140 WPM, nowhere close to Barbara Blackburn's 212 WPM record, ugh, the overachiever.

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    My other passions are entrepreneurship and  empowering other young people to beat stereotypical "youngness". Wisdom must be achieved by age, but success is attainable by anyone.


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