I did a reading last night at Warwick's Books in La Jolla, California with the fabulous author Janelle Brown. Her first novel, ALL WE EVER WANTED WAS EVERYTHING, came out with a huge splash last year, and has recently come out in paperback. Janelle and I carpooled, driving the two hours from L.A. to La Jolla together, despite having never met before I picked her up at her house yesterday afternoon. Luckily, we had a lot to talk about, and we got along famously, chatting the whole time, even while relaxing poolside at a hotel bar while killing time before the reading. "What if we had hated each other?" said Janelle at the end of the day. But we both agreed that because we had liked each other's books, we thought we would like each other. Funny how that works. One of the most wonderful things about having a book published has been meeting writers that I admire - and Janelle was definitely one of those writers.