Day two of BEA was the first full day of the exhibits and I was up bright and early.  I headed to the convention center to meet up with my blogger friends and plan out my day while I waited in line.  I really had no plans for the day so I had to take some time to figure out what books I really wanted.

Passenger by Alexandra Bracken was the big signing of the day and as much as I wanted it, I decided I’d probably forgo that because the line was going to be insane.  Instead I headed over to Penguin Random House to get a ticket for Ernest Cline’s signing of Armada.  I was lucky enough to be pretty early in the line and from there I spent some time wandering the floor.  I actually got extremely lucky and walked by the Disney Hyperion booth right as Alex Bracken was finishing her signing and since there were books left, she was nice enough to sign one for me.  I couldn’t believe my luck!  My day was made from that point on.

Following the morning rush, I didn’t really have many plans.  I wandered by Little, Brown right as Carrie Ryan was signing her middle grade book, City of Thirst.  I also happened to be right there when they started the signing line for Libba Bray’s Lair of Dreams.  Once that signing was over I just wandered the floor some more before heading out with Nikki from There Were Books Involved, Octavia from Read. Sleep. Repeat, and Christina from My Life In Books.

The three of us headed to some random pizza place for $0.99 pizza (which was wonderful) and got some frozen yogurt after that.  Then it was time to head to The Strand’s Rare Books Room for the Fierce Reads event hosted by Macmillan.  There was, once again, a photo booth, some awesome authors/bloggers/publicists, and food and drink.  It was so awesome getting to meet Sandy Hall, Leila Sales, and Josephine Angelini, not to mention getting to see Leigh Bardugo and Marissa Meyer again.  As if the party wasn’t awesome enough, the lovely people at Macmillan gifted us with goody bags containing the latest releases from all the authors in attendance and the authors were nice enough to sign their books.  I definitely did a happy dance when I got Six of Crows and was able to get it signed.

By the time we were all ready to head out, The Strand was pretty much kicking us out.  It was so much fun that none of us wanted to leave.  I braved the subway by myself, made it home safe, and completely passed out.  I had big plans for Friday and I knew it was going to be an early morning!