Ohioana Book Festival

My Mother's Day present this year is perfect. I get to spend today at the Ohioana Book Festival in Columbus, and yes my family is coming with me. I'm sure I'll have some pictures to share with you later this week. I enjoyed it last year and have been looking forward to it. Looking at the schedule, I'm planning on attending at least two of the panels. Thrillers, Murders, Mystery, and Suspense True confessions about these perennially popular genres from the authors who write in them. Panelists: Chris Berhalter, Don Bruns, Amanda Flower, Barbara Levinson, Noam Sphancer From Another Realm An earthbound look at the worlds of science fiction and fantasy. Panelists: Casey Daniels, Linda Robertson, Denise Verrico, Tim Waggoner I'm also hoping to meet Lisa Black and Andrea Cheng. I bet Amber will enjoy talking to Mary Kay Carson, who writes books for kids about science and nature. Her newest one, The Bat Scientist, is part of the Scientists in the Field series we really like. If you're...
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Ohioana Book Festival

I went to the Ohioana Book Festival in Columbus this past Saturday, an event celebrating Ohio's authors, along with my husband, Amber(10), my brother and sister-in-law. It was really fun day, at least I enjoyed it a lot. I know Amber did too. As for the rest of the bunch, I think they had an okay time, but were basically there because I wanted to go. There were tons of authors chatting and signing their books. I think we all came away with something. Amber bought The Warrior Heir by Cinda Williams Chima. This is a picture of the two of them. She was really nice to Amber, interested in talking to her and encouraged Amber to send her an e-mail after she reads the story to tell her if she enjoys it. We actually picked up a bunch of books.  In addition to that one, Amber also got Pencil, Paper, Draw!: Dogs (signed) by Steve Harpster, who told her that the...
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