Saturday I
went to the 2013 Collingwood Book Festival.
As a voracious gobbler of books, I look forward to the book festival every
year. I will admit that although I am
not a cold weather person, and usually I enjoy warmth, it was a hot day
at the festival; the kind of hot that leaves you feeling like a wilted daisy.
This year it was exciting because the South
Jersey Writers’ Group (of which I am a member) had a table. The group was selling its anthology of short stories, Tale Tales and Short Stories from South Jersey.
We were also selling tote bags.
I turned out to be a pretty good pin model. The pins worked because people did in fact ask me about my Writer's Group.
Some of the
group’s authors were also selling their books.
I bought WhatTo Expect When You're Dead, by John Farquhar.
(He also gets extra points for wearing a Doctor Who t-shirt)
One of the
best things about the book festival is that the authors are all there and happy to
sign copies of their books. I took full
advantage.
I was especially excited to get my copy of NerdCamp signed by Elissa Brent Weissman. I really enjoyed reading Nerd Camp this summer.
Elissa was sweet, friendly and energetic.
I was happy to have the chance to meet her in person.
As a fan of Nerd Camp, I was thrilled to hear
that the sequel, Nerd Camp 2.0, would be coming out in the spring.
At the festival, I also bought and had
her sign her book, The Short Seller, about a 7th grade girl who
finds she has a talent for e-trading.
Elissa also had Nerd Camp t-shirts for sale.
I think the shirt will make a great addition to my
growing collection of fun t-shirts.
The festival always
has fun things for the kids (though I felt this year the kids' section was a little lacking compared to previous years).
Fun things for
kids included people dressed up in mascot type costumes. Unfortunately, mascot costumes creep me out,
just after clowns and ventriloquist dummies.
There were
many fun book seller displays and people selling book related items.
Poehead.com
had everything for the Edgar Allan Poe lover.
I purchased a bookmark to add to my bookmark collection and a pin for my
messenger bag.
I was
impressed by Alison M. Wilkom’s set up. She sold me on buying her book
about her Great- Grandfather entitled, Crawfish Jesse- A Soldier’s Diary
1893-1918. Hooray for history, oh and free t-shirts when you buy a book!
Awesome review and I'm sorry that I missed this, but there is always next year.
ReplyDeleteGreat recap...Poehead was awesome. I bought a black cat wine topper..couldnt resist!
ReplyDeleteGreat post. You covered just about everything. And I know Alison M. Wilcom from another writer's group. I remember her attending when she just had the idea to do the book after finding the diary. Thank you for the pictures and recap of an amazing day.
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