You know what’s annoying? When you come back from a trip or an event or other occasion in which you take pictures and discover that the pictures that you took are not as good as you thought they were and that you should have taken more/better ones just to be sure.
So tonight I was at the costume party dessert at the New England Conference and everyone looked fab, and most of the pictures came out terribly. In fact, I’m not even going to post them, because I haven’t gotten permission of the people involved whom I, skillful photog that I am, apparently have a knack for capturing while they make the most awkward and unflattering facial expressions. And it’s too bad, because Marley’s Jaqueline Susann and Elizabeth Mahon’s Lady Macbeth were truly stunning. Jennifer O’Connell was there, dressed in a chef outfit as the pastry chef Lauren Gallagher from her book, Dress Rehearsal. Oh dear, my pics are bad. I will no longer be making fun of SB’s photography skills.
The only decent shot was this one: Mari Mancusi as Rayne, the Goth teen, from her book Stake That! (and Boys that Bite and Girls Who Growl) and me as Amy from SSG. Kristin Nelson took the picture, and convinced us to do it “in character” which I think saved the picture. I’m being secretive (the pomegranate martini is key here) and Marianne is doing a dead on adolescent petulant.
You can’t really see my pin, though, or get the full force of the “Bugaboo” t-shirt I’m wearing.
Like I said, how annoying. The party was great, though! So many people were dressed up! In medieval Turkish outfits and Victorian wedding gowns with bustles and regency heroes and vampire slayers and this amazing ghost of a strangled woman with a really well done bruise mark on her throat shaped like a hand. Shocking!
I’ll be back on Monday with a conference re-cap.
April 1st, 2007 at 7:16 pm
I am so jealous. There you guys all are meeting and hobnobbing with one another doing all sorts of fun author stuff and I am doing nothing.
Oh, I am reading my first Scott Westerfield though and Uglies is Blowing. My. Freaking. Mind.
Teri
April 1st, 2007 at 7:30 pm
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April 1st, 2007 at 9:32 pm
Careful wellwood, pull that zipper too fast and you might get something caught in there and that could really hurt…
April 2nd, 2007 at 7:30 am
Diana, the photos could not do the party justice, could they? I was thinking about the cute little woman who came as Clark Kent with her Superman T-shirt hanging out of her button-up and those thick black glasses. I personally LOVED meeting Amy and Rayne at the bar
April 2nd, 2007 at 7:44 am
LOL, Patrick!
Diana, at least you tried to take pictures. I always forget my camera.
April 2nd, 2007 at 8:32 am
Too bad your pics didn’t turn out. This one was great! I want to hear more about the party!
April 2nd, 2007 at 9:08 am
You should get permission and post anyway! I’d love to see all the costumes, even if the photography is something less that stellar, lol.
(And as long as you continue to write so well, we’ll excuse you if you take lousy photos — afterall, you paint your pictures with words, right?)
April 2nd, 2007 at 9:31 am
I second everyone else who wants to hear more about the party! This is so exciting and you’ve got to give us more details!
April 2nd, 2007 at 1:23 pm
I think you and Marianne look great…she really has the petulant teen thing down doesn’t she?
Serious note: As a fellow YA writer, I would love to get your thoughts on a blog entry I did at the Buzz Girls blog today; http://yawriters.blogspot.com/
Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll!
April 2nd, 2007 at 3:37 pm
I think your website could use a recipe for a pomegranate martini. . .
April 2nd, 2007 at 8:17 pm
r u supposed to be cute or sumthing? u both look a little 2 old to b dressing like that.
April 2nd, 2007 at 9:33 pm
Wellwood, we’re adorable.
April 2nd, 2007 at 10:15 pm
How fun! I loooove costume parties!
April 3rd, 2007 at 7:29 am
You both are utterly adorable in that picture. It looks and sounds like you had such a great time! I’m so jealous!
April 4th, 2007 at 4:45 pm
But Diana, you forgot to mention how we closed down the bar with a heated discussion about World of War—AHEM! A heated discussion about existential themes in today’s genre fiction.
You did Sailor Boy proud!
Mari/Rayne/(Allora)