What a treat! Jessica Portner, reporter extra-ordinaire, represented Titlepage at the Book Expo on Friday.

In the process, she collected a few posts that you can now read in Loud Please! This is quite special not only because Jess is an old friend of the team, but also even though she is on the verge of officially becoming a blogger -- she did it here, first!

A former staff writer for the San Jose Mercury News, Jessica has been published in The Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post and Slate.com and she is about to launch a blog for the Science Channel called What in the Universe? We hope you visit her there.

She is also the author of One In Thirteen, a profile of three teens who committed suicide.