{"id":246,"date":"2016-06-14T01:28:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T01:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=246"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:43:59","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:43:59","slug":"new-books-hau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=246","title":{"rendered":"New Books Haul"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I was good. You’d be proud of me. I limited my book buying spree to merely THREE.<\/p>\n

This was at the Mixed Remixed Festival<\/a>, which took place over this past Friday and Saturday at the Japanese American National Museum in downtown L.A. (Read a great recap here<\/a>.) I was a volunteer on Saturday, mostly working at the registration table, but I also got a chance to chat with folks and attend a fantastic reading by featured writers F. Douglas Brown (a poet), Willy Wilkinson (Lambda Award winner), Natashia Deon (who KILLED it with her reading from just-released Grace<\/i>), Jamie Ford, and Sunil Yapa. It was a great opportunity to buy one of Jamie Ford’s books, which I’ve been meaning to read for a while, and I was really blown away by all five speakers. I feel privileged to have gotten to chat with and\/or congratulate all of them afterward. Lovely people one and all. And of course the wonderful Heidi Durrow, author of The Girl Who Fell from the Sky<\/i> and director of the festival. We had some great phone chats over the past few months as I worked on laying out the program. <\/p>\n

I had some kidlit-specific encounters, too! I got to say hi again to Katrina Goldsaito<\/a>, author of the upcoming kids’ book The Sound of Silence <\/i>and fellow client at Andrea Brown. (I also had a great chat with her agent Jamie Weiss Chilton! All those Andrea Brown peeps are fantastic.) And I met Eleanor Glewwe, author of DIVERSE FANTASY MG title Sparkers<\/i>, which I’m looking forward to reading. Last but not least, it was nice to talk again to Jamie Moore of Mixed Reader<\/a>, who was the one who initially invited me to read at Mixed Remixed a few years back–she’s a fellow Central Valley resident, so we resolved to try to meet up at some point.<\/p>\n

There is something unique and magical about meeting other writers in a context that is not just related to one’s writing, in an environment that is all about acceptance and celebration of all our mixed and mixed-up stories. In that context you know you have something immediately in common, that you have experiences in common and those experiences have inextricably informed your writing and formed you as a person.<\/p>\n

It’s always hard to put those things into words, though, and do it justice. If you want to know more, check out the Twitter hashtag<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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