11 Author Horror Stories That'll Give You Secondhand Embarrassment

“I yelled at Suzanne Collins at her Mockingjay launch event.”

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We asked Yallwest authors what's the most embarrassing thing they've said or done in front of an author they admire. Here are their stories.

"Gregory Maguire — he did Wicked — invited me over to dinner. Lois Lowry was going to be there too. Anyway, I was pretty nervous. So I go to this dinner and it actually turns out they're such lovely people and we had a wonderful time. As I'm driving home I'm thinking, Wow, this went really, really well. But as I'm getting dressed for bed, I discover that I have a GIANT brown stain all over my butt, dripping down the back of my legs. I'd been on the T in Boston earlier that day, and I think I sat in someone's coffee. And I'd had a giant wet coffee stain throughout the whole dinner."

—M.T. Anderson, author of Feed and many others

"At Books of Wonder, I yelled at Suzanne Collins at her Mockingjay launch event. I was like, 'THANK YOU FOR COMING!!!!!' I thanked her for coming to her own launch. She was just like, 'uh…thank you for coming!' I was very aggressive with my gratitude."

—Adam Silvera, author of More Happy Than Not

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