Ohioana Book Fest
Went to the Ohioana Book Festival yesterday and met some lovely writer types and caught up with one of my VP instructors.
From across the room, I saw the cover of All the Way Home: Building a Family in a Falling-Down House, which I read a few months back. I made sure to meet the author, David Giffels, and share tales of critters in attics and walls in my own falling-down house.
Had a great time talking to John Scalzi about all matter of writing things. Also, when he found out that I'm going to Clarion, he told me that after that I'm not allowed any more writing workshops. I totally agree! Time to be a grown-up already. I bought a signed copy of Agent to the Stars and got a special copy of Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded, for which I sincerely thank him.
He sent me to meet C.C. Finlay, author of the newly released The Patriot Witch, part 1 of the Traitor to the Crown trilogy. I bought a signed copy of this book and, as it turns out, he's got a cool thing going on with it: the second book comes out in two weeks and the third next month. He'll be at a local bookstore for a signing in June and I'll get the other books then. Also turns out that he taught at Clarion a few years back. So we had a great chat about short stories vs. novels, and he told me to ask Holly Black about novel writing because, he explained, she has such great advice.
My sister (who is an MLS student at Kent and was a volunteer at the fest) said as we were leaving: maybe soon you'll be an Ohio author with your own table! I wish....
From across the room, I saw the cover of All the Way Home: Building a Family in a Falling-Down House, which I read a few months back. I made sure to meet the author, David Giffels, and share tales of critters in attics and walls in my own falling-down house.
Had a great time talking to John Scalzi about all matter of writing things. Also, when he found out that I'm going to Clarion, he told me that after that I'm not allowed any more writing workshops. I totally agree! Time to be a grown-up already. I bought a signed copy of Agent to the Stars and got a special copy of Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded, for which I sincerely thank him.
He sent me to meet C.C. Finlay, author of the newly released The Patriot Witch, part 1 of the Traitor to the Crown trilogy. I bought a signed copy of this book and, as it turns out, he's got a cool thing going on with it: the second book comes out in two weeks and the third next month. He'll be at a local bookstore for a signing in June and I'll get the other books then. Also turns out that he taught at Clarion a few years back. So we had a great chat about short stories vs. novels, and he told me to ask Holly Black about novel writing because, he explained, she has such great advice.
My sister (who is an MLS student at Kent and was a volunteer at the fest) said as we were leaving: maybe soon you'll be an Ohio author with your own table! I wish....