I don’t think that there’s a person on this planet that doesn’t know what the “<3" (less than three) symbol means. It's a heart. It means love. And it's also just become incredibly important to your Auntie Heather, Minions.
If you follow me on Twitter or Facebook, you may have heard me mention a big secret that I'm working on. Today, after a long time coming, I had my first big meeting about that secret, and it's finally time to clue you all in.
I, along with my amazing committee members (Vicki Erwin, Melissa Posten, Ange Flynn, and Amy Keaveny) are organizing a conference--one with you Minions, with teenagers, with outcasts in mind. It's called the <3 conference - the Less Than Three conference.
Less Than Three will take place in St. Louis, and is the first of its kind, a YA Lit/Anti-Bullying conference that will bring about some of your favorite YA authors, teens, tweens, booksellers, teachers, administrators, parents, librarians, authors and more to rally against bullying. There will also be punch and pie. (Okay, there may be punch and pie.)
The big day is Saturday, October 19, 2013. We have a long time until the conference, but I’m so, so thrilled that our official planning has begun. I hope you all can join us!
Until then…
<3,
Auntie Heather
Tags: <3, anti-bullying, awesomeness, Secret
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That’s so amazing Heather such a great idea
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I wish I could go to saint Louis, that sounds so coooool! <///3
I will beg my parents to let me come!!!!1
Wow. That’s a long time. Must be a huge event then.
wow osm! i might move to st louis, if i do ill definitely come!
ill be 14 by then, wow
I saw the heart sign and my mind went:
because I thought you meant true love, But then I realized as I read it was for this conference, which sounds amazingly awesome! I really hope to go. 
wow ill be 16 by then. i MUST go.
This is going to be the most awesome event. Can’t wait to be a part of it!
…*starts begging parents*
Omg, ?, I just realized I’ll be 16 too! Maybe I can come!!!
that’s the day before my 17th birthday. i really want to go, even if it’s so far away.
YAY!!! I’m so excited, this is awesome. I’m so glad you do things in St. Louis! Gaaaaah I can’t even wait now.
that will be about a month be for i turn 17 and i conveniently live in St.Louis. Can’t wait to come!
Wow, I’ll be 17 by then! I probably won’t get to go (
) But I will try to! Great idea Auntie Heather! 
-_- of course this is being held nowhere near me. *sigh*
I’ll be one month away from being 17 then, maybe I can drive myself there since I still live in boring ol’ Ohio.
But it sounds amazing, a truly wonderful idea!
was so excited when I saw it was around the same time for me to move for college (aka, I could travel)
Then that excitment disappeared when I realized it was in St. Louis.
Not looking at colleges even close to there….
Sounds super fun, I wish I could go.
Omg I totally wish I could go but my parents would most Lilly never let me!!
but that is an awesome idea!!! 
I hope I can come!!!!!
And now, to devise a plan to somehow get there in time xD
Awww why so far away!? I cant afford to fly from MA to st louis:((( but have fun there!
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I’m so going to be there
<3
</3 you should have a live feed video taping it so those of use who cannot make it can b there in spirit
When I saw the “<3" I thought it was real love but then I sighed in relief that it wasn't! But its a very gooooood idea Auntie <3
I BETTER GET PLANNING THIS TIME I WILL NOT MISS THIS WON’T MISS THIS!
omg its two days after my b-day I AM GONNA BE SIXTEEN BEST EVA!!!!!!!!
awwwwe
You need to do it in the summer cause my mom and dad wont let me go during the school year!!
Next year? That’s a lot! Anyway I will start saving money cuz by that date I’d be 18 and I can travel by my own and finally meet Auntie Heather <3
That sounds like such an awesome idea!!!
but I probably won’t be able to go
…maybe i can convince my parents to take a road trip…are there any national monuments in St. Louis? or important museums?
;D
Wait 2013?? But the world is sopose to end December 21st 2012 XD
how come everyone is 17? or 16… or close? i’m just a 13-year old reader! and i’m so close, only 1 1/2 states away!
oh and to maggs,
there is the…
St. Louis Arch with the Underground Museum underneath it
the city museum, it isn’t really a museum, but don’t tell your parents that!. its a giant playground for teenagers and adults. the small children will be trampled. a lot. it has a 13 story slide, giant climbing ropes, ball pits, airplains and buses hang off the roof and a few other things
That sounds like fun!! I hope I can come (expecially since it is in the school year.) You should do a live video feed of it for all those who can’t come. That would be awesome!!
Oh….u KNOW I’m comin to THIS!
Dude I’m a be 14 by then!!!!!
My boyfriend didn’t know what it meant!! Lol. I <3 all of you!!!
Ill be 13 by then haha. <3
i always though ” <3 " was a happy cyclopes but with a happy cat mouth xD
im in a girl scout troop (no,we don’t wear skirts and do all that preppy cute girl crap)and we plan on making an Anti-bulling video, with a supernatural twist. it should be fun
Dang. That is REALLY far from Texas. Oh well, I’ll try. (;
This is the second <3 thing i've heard about. The first it the <3 book of short stories that Kristina Horner and Hayley G. Hoover are putting together.
:O I want to go sooooo bad, Auntie!!!!!! T.T I wish I could go to St. Louis…