{"id":3798,"date":"2014-09-23T20:46:14","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T00:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=3798"},"modified":"2014-09-23T21:32:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T01:32:00","slug":"fierce-readers-writers-friends-bethesda-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/the-vault-of-dreamers\/fierce-readers-writers-friends-bethesda-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Fierce Readers, Writers, and Friends at the Bethesda Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ann Aguirre, Marie Rutkoski and I stopped in at the Bethesda Library yesterday for another Fierce Reads panel and we had a great time. \u00a0Librarian Kathie Weinberg had thoughtful questions to get us started, and the audience added more so we were able to talk about favorite YA novels, writing discoveries, favorite characters, and much more. \u00a0We had a chance to linger afterward, and I was delighted\u00a0to catch up with a few of my friends who live in the area. \u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3800\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/DC-Writersbloggers.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3800\" class=\"wp-image-3800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/DC-Writersbloggers-350x262.jpeg\" alt=\"Ann Aguirre, Marie, Steph Sinclair from Cuddlebuggery, Stephanie Brown of No BS Book Reviews, Jessica who? Of Step Into Fiction, Sandy Chen Huffington Post, Me,  Front Lindsay Smith, Jessica Spotswood (writer), Leah Cypess, Diana Peterfreund. Not pictured: Liza from Reading with ABC, and Sanna Darwish and Noha Darwish of Just Counting the Stars. \" width=\"350\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/DC-Writersbloggers-350x262.jpeg 350w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/DC-Writersbloggers-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/DC-Writersbloggers-250x187.jpeg 250w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/DC-Writersbloggers-900x676.jpeg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3800\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In back: Ann Aguirre, Marie Rutkoski, Steph Sinclair from Cuddlebuggery Book Blog, Stephanie Brown of No BS Book Reviews, Jessica Reigle of Step Into Fiction, Sandy Chen, and Caragh O&#8217;Brien. In front: Lindsay Smith, Jessica Spotswood, Leah Cypess, and Diana Peterfreund.<br \/> Not pictured: Liza from Reading with ABC, and Sanna Darwish and Noha Darwish of Just Counting the Stars.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>DC has a vibrant community of YA writers, readers, and bloggers, and having so many of them present made for lively, friendly conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks again to Kathie for a fabulous event!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ann Aguirre, Marie Rutkoski and I stopped in at the Bethesda Library yesterday for another Fierce Reads panel and we had a great time. \u00a0Librarian Kathie Weinberg had thoughtful questions to get us started, and the audience added more so we were able to talk about favorite YA novels, writing discoveries, favorite characters, and much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-vault-of-dreamers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3798"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3809,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3798\/revisions\/3809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}