Mortification Monday, starring Shannon Hale (and others)!

From squeetus:

Five years ago, I fly to a far away state to do school visits. At the first school, no one seems to be expecting me or have any idea who I am. Eventually they put me in the library with a class of about 20 middle schoolers, who are mildly happy to be out of class and supremely uninterested in the random adult in front of them. The librarian introduces me, "Here's Sharon Hall. She writes books." He then goes over to the couch where he reads a magazine during my presentation. A few teachers on break gather nearby, speaking so loudly I have to ask them to please keep it down because the kids couldn't hear me. Not that they really wanted to.

And that's the one that's the least painful. Click through to read the others, if you dare: Her stories are truly cringeworthy, like, epically so. And this is Shannon Hale we're talking about. SHANNON HALE. (Meaning, how do appearances go for lesser-known authors??)

(via FW)