Casey on the Airport Runway

Gearing up for another five hour plane ride, I realized that I'm in dire need of some top-notch literary entertainment. On my way to San Francisco, I breezed through Melissa Walker's latest, Violet on the Runway, in two hours and those were possibly the two fastest hours of the entire weekend. She really has a knack for making such familiar teen themes (fashion industry, struggling models, college life) hilarious and impossibly amusing. When I got to the last page, I was simultaneously grinning and blinking back tears. And I'm not even an emotional girl.

Melissa was one of the very first authors I spotted at the Ypulse conference, and I completely struggled conversing with her because I was so overwhelmed that I had just finished her book hours earlier. I might have accidentally gushed, in a way you would gush to your favorite singer or actress or designer ("Omigod, I love your..."). Had I been thinking on my feet, I would have tried to convince Melissa to write up a speedy fourth installment, just to keep me occupied during tomorrow's flight.

So off I go to the bookstore. If you know of any new books or magazines out there that have a chance of keeping me occupied for the length of this weekend's jaunt, let me know!

-tf