I got to meet another author - Marie Lu!

This past week I attended a library conference in Yakima and had the opportunity to meet YA author Marie Lu. You may have read her books we have in our library: Legend, Progidy and Champion. Her inspiration when writing Legend was the book she was reading at the time: Les Miserables (another CHS book). Marie grew up in China and immigrated to the US as a child. She remembers going with her aunt and eating popcicles at Beijing's Tian'anmen Square in the morning before the terrible violence occured when hundreds were killed. Her advise to writers, "Get the words down and finish your rough drafts, remember rough drafts are always bad, and keep reading, READ-READ-READ". I couldn't have said it better myself. She also reminded us of the power of books and gave us a current example: she missed her plane from Seattle to Yakima because she was finishing her book.