{"id":799,"date":"2010-09-03T00:01:06","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T04:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/03\/decatur-book-festival\/"},"modified":"2010-09-02T19:13:01","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T23:13:01","slug":"decatur-book-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/03\/decatur-book-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"If You&#8217;re in Decatur, Come Say Hello!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image798\" src=\"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/decatur-book-fest.gif\" alt=\"decatur-book-fest.gif\" width=\"550\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m flying down to Georgia today to take part in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.decaturbookfestival.com\/2010\/index.php\">Decatur Book Festival<\/a>, in a Saturday morning panel called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.decaturbookfestival.com\/2010\/schedule\/event-details.php?id=103\">Where Do I Go From Here?: Getting Your Book Noticed<\/a>.&#8221; I&#8217;ll be joined by Rebecca Schinsky of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebookladysblog.com\/\"><i>The Book Lady&#8217;s Blog<\/i><\/a> and Stephen Usery, who runs the syndicated &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/wyplfmbooktalk.blogspot.com\/\">Book Talk<\/a>&#8221; program out of Memphis. We&#8217;ll be answering questions from ace book publicist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jkscommunications.com\/\">Julie Schoerke<\/a>&#8212;and since I&#8217;ve been on stage with Julie and Stephen in Alabama earlier this year, and with Rebecca in Richmond, Virginia, just last week, I can pretty much guarantee that this is going to be a fun 45-minute spiel.<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;m in Decatur, I&#8217;m going to keep an eye out for fellow Book Festival guest stars Laurel Snyder, Rakesh Satyal, and Jillian Weise, among the many authors scheduled to be there. Tonight, we&#8217;re supposed to all go listen to Jonathan Franzen read from <i>Freedom<\/i>, which should be an entertaining evening&#8212;it&#8217;s a lively read! (More on that next week&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m flying down to Georgia today to take part in the Decatur Book Festival, in a Saturday morning panel called &#8220;Where Do I Go From Here?: Getting Your Book Noticed.&#8221; I&#8217;ll be joined by Rebecca Schinsky of The Book Lady&#8217;s Blog and Stephen Usery, who runs the syndicated &#8220;Book Talk&#8221; program out of Memphis. We&#8217;ll [&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\/799"}],"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=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}