Dinner with Julie Anne Peters

I was sitting on the train today (I know, how unexpected!) and I realized I never blogged about having dinner with Julie Anne Peters! It was fabulous, by the way. Julie Anne Peters writes LGBT young adult fiction – she’s written Luna, Keeping You a Secret, Between Mom and Jo, Far from Xanadu, and a bunch of others. She’s one of my all-time favorite authors, so getting to have dinner with her was a pretty big deal.

A friend of mine does some website stuff for Julie, and because he was going to be in Denver for Creating Change, she invited him to dinner. I think I got to come too because I was just really excited. (And another friend of ours came, so there were three of us going to dinner.) Julie picked us up at the conference hotel, and we drove to her house where we got introduced to her partner, had really good guacamole and chips, and then some sort of bean lasagna, which was pretty good. We talked about the conference, about her books, and just about ourselves in general. Julie lives in a suburb of Denver with her partner, and a ton of cats. Seriously, they are like foster parents to like an entire animal rescue shelter for cats. It’s really cute.

It was great to get to meet Julie and her partner, and it was great to be able to escape the conference and get a home cooked meal. Basically, it was a really enjoyable dinner.