I wanna be just like Jodiiii...

As a general rule, certain types of people like certain things.
Teenage boys like football.
Teenage girls like boybands. (I may have been somewhat obssessed with the Backstreet Boys. I heart them still.)

Me, as a writer...I am in love with Jodi Picoult.
Not in the literal, I'm-a-bit-gay, sense. Love in the, 'I'm a writer and wish to high heaven that I could be even a tenth as good as she is', sense.
The woman amazes me with every single book she releases. She's incredible. She has such a way with words that by the end of the book, I am literally in there, living with the people she has given life to in the little world she has created. I'm totally attached to every single plot line she has ever thrown onto paper.

I was first introduced to her books a couple of years ago, when I had run out of good books to pick up and my mom lent me her copy of The Pact. I read it in approximately 9 hours. Seriously.

I now own all 15 of her books and have read them all at least twice. Most of them are signed. This years book is released in the UK on the 30 April, and I have it pre-ordered. The UK tour dates have been released, and I am driving the two and a half hours to Kent in April to watch her one hour talk, and then I'll be driving home again.
I've been to about 6 different book signings and talks just in the last two years.

Do I have a problem?! Haha!
I just am in total awe of how good this woman is....she is exactly who I want to be.

So, imagine me, in a fit of adolescent-like hero-worship, emailing her web site to gush over how excited I was that the book was almost out and that the tour was coming over here....and then imagine me bouncing off the walls when she emails me straight back from her Blackberry.
Dear lord, it was like a teenage girl getting a text from a Backstreet Boy ;)

If you are reading this, and you have never read a Jodi book - you are seriously reading the wrong person. Shame on you. Get thee to a bookstore at once.