Dragon Sightings at the Texas Book Festival
November 19th, 2007 by --KALEB NATION--
I realized this morning that I never posted anything about the Texas Book Festival weeks ago. I went there to meet with authors and mingle with other book-minded people. There were plenty about, an entire schedule of big names including Rick Riordan, the big kids author of the moment who is writing the Percy Jackson series.
There was secret service everywhere, because Jenna Bush and Lynn Cheney were coming. I almost ran into all these guys with suits, little diamond collar pins and curly headphone wires. They were serious. I went to the end where Jenna was going to come in, without knowing where I was, and they were all looking at me, a whole group of them and police. I realized she would be coming from that street because it was filled with black SUV’s. I spun about and started right off in the opposite direction.
I went there hoping to see Rick Riordan, Kimberly Willis Holt (I won an autographed book from her 2 weeks ago), Jenna Bush and meet with April Lurie, who I have met over email. I ended up seeing none of those, but I did get to see Rick Yancey, Sherman Alexie, Neal Shusterman and this oddball:
One of those things you only get to see in places where authors congregate.
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November 19th, 2007 at 7:35 am
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Again, where is this in Texas? I live about five-fifteen minutes away from Dallas (…depends on how fast my sister drives that day).
Oh! When I get another email from you, I want to attach a few pictures of my new journal is starting to look like because of you.
I followed your example and used one of my old sketch pads to write in. It turns out that it’s a lot easier for me to write on that instead of a normal journal. 