What You’re Saying
You — that’s right, I’m talking to you — have been writing about your experiences at this year’s book festival. Your stories, pictures, even video keep popping up on blogs and even YouTube. With no claims of being comprehensive, here’s a sampling of Decatur Book Festival stories showing up on the Web.
Andisheh Nouraee (of Creative Loafing’s superb “Don’t Panic” column chronicling the War on Terror [tm]) spent some time at the festival and wrote about it on his Creative Loafing blog.
“A Cup of Coffey” blogs about seeing Sherman Alexie, Peter Case, John Wesley Harding, Hollis Gillespie, Chuck Klosterman, Aaron Petrovich, and others.
Book blogger extraordinaire “Baby Got Books” wrote extensively about the festival. 1 2 3 4 5 6.
Featured author Ilona Meagher (”Moving a Nation to Care: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and America’s Returning Troops”) writes about her experiences at the book festival and shares her very professional looking photos collected in a Flickr gallery.
Kathy, a media specialist from Dacula, Georgia, recounts her festival experiences in “Library Stew.”
Jali writes about seeing Terry Brooks, Tina McElroy Ansa and others in “Jali’s House.”
Members of the Atlanta Poets Group performed a polyphon (a multi-voiced poem) at the Java Monkey Local Authors Stage. They post a recording of a rehearsal.
Someone videotaped Rick Riordan’s talk on the Target Children’s Stage and posted it to YouTube.
Elizabeth Dulemba, an accomplished children’s book creator in her own right, keeps the spotlight mostly on the children’s authors she met at the festival, including Judy Schachner, Chris Raschka, Rick Riordan, Alan Gratz, and many more. She posts several pictures as well.
Lain and Amelia, over at The Wren’s Nest (the museum home of Joel Chandler Harris), wrote about and posted pictures from their festival experiences, which included storytelling and the launch of the teen literary magazine, Soy Nut Butter, that was created this summer through a partnership between The Wren’s Nest and the Decatur Book Festival.
“Bibliophile Bullpen,” an antiquarian book dealer, writes about his experiences at the Atlanta Rare and Collectible Book Fair, which takes place at the Decatur Book Festival.
St.John Flynn, host of GPB’s “Cover to Cover,” blogged extensively about the festival. 1 2 3 4 5.
Terry Brooks reported gleefully on his talk given from the pulpit of the Decatur Presbyterian Church.
Nathan Cain over at “Independent Crime” uses his experiences at the Decatur Book Festival to reflect on the current state of crime fiction.
Author James O. Born, who appeared on one of the festival’s mystery panels, recounts his experiences on his Amazon blog.
Phil Kloer launched his AJC blog “The Book Page” the week of the festival and spent much of that first week writing about the festival. 1 2 3 4 5.
Author Annabelle Robertson, the hilarious author of “The Southern Girl’s Guide to Surviving the Newlywed Years,” wrote about her festival experiences and the reflections one talk prompted for her about Hurricane Katrina.
David at “in Decatur” not only wrote extensively about the festival, he even collected links to several others who did the same (so I don’t have to).
OK, that’s all I have for now. I’m sure I’ve missed many more. Let me know in the comments.
UPDATE: Suzanne Brockman’s message board has festival stories and pictures from her fans. Stories and pics include some of Diana Gabaldon, who appeared with Brockman.