{"id":4676,"date":"2016-06-08T14:19:02","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T18:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/?p=4676"},"modified":"2016-06-08T14:20:38","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T18:20:38","slug":"b-fest-nationwide-book-fest-teens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/birthmarked\/b-fest-nationwide-book-fest-teens\/","title":{"rendered":"B-Fest: A Nationwide Book Fest for Teens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/h\/b-fest-teen-book-festival\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4677\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4677\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-08-at-2.15.15-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-06-08 at 2.15.15 PM\" width=\"275\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-08-at-2.15.15-PM.png 1305w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-08-at-2.15.15-PM-300x213.png 300w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-08-at-2.15.15-PM-768x546.png 768w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-08-at-2.15.15-PM-450x320.png 450w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Screen-Shot-2016-06-08-at-2.15.15-PM-250x178.png 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/a>Barnes &amp; Noble is hosting a huge <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/h\/b-fest-teen-book-festival\" target=\"_blank\">teen book festival<\/a> this weekend, June 10-12, with games, trivia parties, giveaways, author panels, writing workshops, cosplay, spelling contests, and bookish prizes. Tons of YA authors are showing up to be part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/h\/b-fest-teen-book-festival\" target=\"_blank\">B-Fest<\/a> fun, and the events are free for everyone. Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/stores.barnesandnoble.com\/events?searchText=West%20Hartford,%20CT%2006107&amp;storeFilter=all&amp;view=events\" target=\"_blank\">B-Fest Events\u00a0at\u00a0a B&amp;N store near you<\/a> and drop in to be part of the story.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m doubly involved with B-Fest. First, Friday evening, I\u2019ll be joining fellow Connecticut writer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emilybainmurphy.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">Emily Bain Murphy<\/a> (whose debut YA novel <em>The Disappearances<\/em> is due out from Houghton Mifflin in 2017) at the <a href=\"https:\/\/stores.barnesandnoble.com\/event\/9780061782462-1\" target=\"_blank\">Canton, CT B&amp;N<\/a> for shenanigans and trivia at 7:00.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, I\u2019m heading to the <a href=\"https:\/\/stores.barnesandnoble.com\/event\/9780061787274-0\" target=\"_blank\">West Hartford B&amp;N<\/a> to lead a writing workshop at 2:00, which means we\u2019ll actually be writing on paper with writing utensils. It\u2019s open to anyone who wants to tinker with ideas, so bring your imagination and be ready to let it loose!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barnes &amp; Noble is hosting a huge teen book festival this weekend, June 10-12, with games, trivia parties, giveaways, author panels, writing workshops, cosplay, spelling contests, and bookish prizes. Tons of YA authors are showing up to be part of the B-Fest fun, and the events are free for everyone. Check out B-Fest Events\u00a0at\u00a0a B&amp;N [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-birthmarked"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4676","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=4676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4678,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4676\/revisions\/4678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}