This is the first year that I’m going to be going to YALC and I AM SO EXCITED! I’m going with so many amazing people as well that I have met from Twitter and who I have met up with before. It is an expensive weekend, to be honest. It was £50 for the ticket and then I had to book a hotel for the three nights, and then obviously there are going to be stalls where I’ll want to buy things, so it’s going to get very expensive. BUT! It only happens once a year, so I don’t mind. Anyway, here is the full overview of what I’m looking forward to, and my reading plans.

 

Holly Bourne. I’ve Met Holly Bourne before at Waterstones and I wrote her a letter about how much her books have helped me with my mental health. She is such a lovely, hilarious, strong woman, and I CAN’T WAIT to meet her again at YALC. Bourne has written: Am I Normal Yet? Trilogy, Soulmates, It Only Happens in the Movies…

Sara Holland. This will be the first time that I am ever meeting Sara Holland… So I think I should probably read Everless.

Emily Barr: is the author of The Truth and Lies of Emily Black and, The One Memory of Flora Banks

Tomi Adeyemi: is the author of Children of Blood and Bone

Sasha Alsberg and Lindsay Cummings: are the authors of Zenith

Samantha Shannon: is the author of The Bone Season series

Giovanna and Tom Fletcher: are the authors of Eve of Man

Muhammad Khan: is the author of I Am Thunder

Melinda Salisbury: is the author of the Sin Eater’s Daughter trilogy and, State of Sorrow

Sally Nicholls: is the author of Things a Bright Girl Can Do

Louise O’ Neill: is the author of Asking For It, Only Ever Yours and, Surface Breaks

Matt Killeen: is the author of Orphan Monster Spy

Sara Barnard: is the author of Beautiful Broken Things, A Quiet Kind of Thunder and, Goodbye, Perfect

Sally Green: is the author of the Half Bad trilogy and, The Smoke Thieves

Melissa Albert: is the author of The Hazel Wood

Laura Dockrill: is the author of Big Bones

Lauren James: is the author of The Next Together duology, and The Lonliest Girl in the Universe

Dhonielle Clayton: is the author of The Belles

Becky Chambers: is the author of The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet trilogy

Anna Day: is the author of The Fandom

Akemi Dawn Bowman: is the author of Starfish

Chloe Coles: is the author of Bookshop Girl

Alwyn Hamilton: is the author of Rebel of the Sands trilogy

 

 

Reviews:

How Hard Can Love Be? by Holly Bourne

It Only Happens in the Movies by Holly Bourne

Beautiful Broken Things by Sara Barnard

A Quiet Kind of Thunder by Sara Barnard

The Next Together by Lauren James

Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton

Traitor to the Throne by Alwyn Hamilton

 

 

 

Looks like I’ve got A LOT of reading to do… I know that I won’t read all of the ones that I want to, because I genuinely cannot read that fast and I’m in a bit of a reading slump at the moment, which is absolutely awful… But I’m going to try my best to get to as many of these books as possible so that I can meet the authors, gush about their books and get them signed. Obviously, I would love to be able to have read EVERY.SINGLE.BOOK of the authors that I’m excited to see, but I know that it’s just not realistic.

 

 

For anyone else who is going to YALC, here is the schedule that YALC have posted online: http://www.londonfilmandcomiccon.com/index.php/zones/yalc/yalc-schedule

&& if anyone is going to YALC this year, let me know in the comments so I can see who my fellow people are!