{"id":563,"date":"2010-04-15T23:38:52","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T03:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/15\/alabama-book-festival\/"},"modified":"2010-04-17T10:05:33","modified_gmt":"2010-04-17T14:05:33","slug":"alabama-book-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/15\/alabama-book-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Road Again: Alabama Book Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" id=\"image562\" src=\"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/alabama-book-fest.jpg\" alt=\"alabama-book-fest.jpg\" \/>For the second straight weekend, I&#8217;m off to a city I&#8217;ve never visited before for a literary event&#8212;this time around, it&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alabamabookfestival.org\/\">Alabama Book Festival<\/a> in Montgomery, where I&#8217;ll be taking part in a panel about the publishing industry and what current circumstances and looming developments hold in store for authors. (I&#8217;ll be joined by publicist Julie Schoerke, radio journalist Stephen Usery, and novelist Susan Gregg Gilmore, the last of whom <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/galleycat\/lecture_circuit\/novelist_book_critic_bond_over_lemon_meringue_pie_112043.asp\">I met last year<\/a> at Virginia&#8217;s Festival of the Book.)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s shaping up to be a pretty fun day; my friends Kathy Patrick and Karen Spears Zacharias will also be on hand, as well as some authors I&#8217;ve been interested in for a while, including Elise Blackwell, Ace Atkins, and Daniel Wallace, and big-name writers like Pearl Cleage, Rick Bragg, and Robert Hicks. And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alabamabookfestival.org\/authors.html\">that&#8217;s just for starters<\/a>. If any of you reading this are in the neighborhood, come on down&#8212;did I mention it&#8217;s free?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the second straight weekend, I&#8217;m off to a city I&#8217;ve never visited before for a literary event&#8212;this time around, it&#8217;s the Alabama Book Festival in Montgomery, where I&#8217;ll be taking part in a panel about the publishing industry and what current circumstances and looming developments hold in store for authors. (I&#8217;ll be joined by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}