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Anonymous asked: Would you sign the case for my Kindle at LeakyCon? (I have your book on it.) :)

O’course :D

Anonymous asked: I went to leaky last year and your dresses were beautiful! Where do you do most of your shopping for them?

Thank you! ASOS.com, mostly. Also some shops in England I like. Here I also love Modcloth. :)

Anonymous asked: Every time we have to make a decision about the tote bags, or logo, or panels, I just think Melissa Anelli has to do this on like, a scale 5x bigger. I went to LeakyCon last year and got irritated when stuff didnt go right, but now I see that *you* literally cannot control everything. Gotta give you a lotta cred now.

Thank you :) Mostly I just do it with 5x as many people. But yeah. People just have no idea what goes into it until they do it themselves, how on a dime it balances and how one tiny, tiny thing, can send the entire thing spinning into LineCon. WHICH IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN THIS YEAR. TOUCH WOOD.

Anonymous asked: No, no, I get that. Im in the middle of planning a much, much smaller conference thats about 100 days away and there really nothing to do until we hear back from people like speakers and sponsors and stuff. Cant wait for LeakyCon!

You know what it’s like? A giant puzzle. It may LOOK like the face part of the puzzle is entirely in place and you can shout that from the rooftops, but it’s a bad idea to do that until you get the hair just right. Know what I mean? 

Anonymous asked: Wow, I would think that being so close, you would have more stuff finalized. Well best of luck anyways!

Well, run a conference or three and then repeat that question. Thanks for the wishes. :)

Anonymous asked: We are almost to the 70 day marks. I am sure you are under extreme stress trying to make everything amazing and absolutely fantastic, but could you find a second to give some more LeakyCon news? Like more specials guests, etc?

I don’t do LeakyCon news on this tumblr, as I say every time someone asks me a question about the actual specifics of the conference. At the very first moment we are able, we make those announcements. We can’t do it any earlier because any earlier than the very first moment we are able, means we are not able. :)

nysundust asked: IF i actually come to Leaky, I'm sorry, but I doubt i'll be talking to you about anything Harry Potter related. It will all be about The West Wing.

Hahahahah DEAL.

dearleaky asked: Hey, Melissa! So I'm going to be at LeakyCon this year and I was wondering: Besides having you sign my copy of Harry, A History, do you think we can get a picture for the tumblr?

O’course! Can’t wait to meet you!

Anonymous asked: What houses would you sort Team StarKid into?

This is a 25-part answer! I’ll do a few of them: Lauren Lopez is a Gryffindor. That girl is scared of nothing. Brian Holden is a Ravenclaw: super clever. Joe Walker: Gryff. Darren: Raven, though I was tempted to say Hufflepuff because the kid works his ass off. Brian Rosenthal, I think he’s a Ravenclaw. Jaime: I don’t know! I suspect Hufflepuff. Mmmm… Julia’s a Hufflepuff. That’s all I got right now.

(I’m trying to get through my insane backlog of Qs. That’s all for now. :)