{"id":3164,"date":"2005-09-22T00:47:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-22T00:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=3164"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:25:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:25:07","slug":"shaking-up-ya-writers-readers-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=3164","title":{"rendered":"Shaking Up YA Writers &#038; Readers Around the Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquake.org\/index-splash.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 317px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 76px\" height=\"86\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/2058\/873\/320\/lq-002a-787x185.jpg\" width=\"333\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><strong>Litquake Rocks!!!<\/strong><br \/>Thanks to the ever fab <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taraweaver.com\/\">Tara Weaver,<\/a> our humble <em>Finding Wonderland<\/em> writers are getting a primo chance to be involved with <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquake.org\/index-splash.html\">Litquake<\/b><\/a>, San Francisco&#8217;s fun and flighty literary festival. For the first time since their beginning in 2002, YA writers will be really represented, and a will be featured as a stop on the infamous toddle down Valencia Street, <strong>Lit Crawl.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Five fabulous YA writers will be reading selections from some of their latest works <strong>October 15th from 5-6:15 pm <\/strong>at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.valenciastreetbooks.com\"><b>Valencia Street Books<\/b><\/a> in San Francisco, as part of the much anticipated <strong>Lit<\/strong> <strong>Crawl<\/strong>. They are: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.Mills.edu\">Mills College<\/a> professor and mystery writer <a href=\"www.mills.edu\/academics\/faculty\/eng\/kreiss\/kreiss.php\">Kathryn Reiss<\/a>, reading from SWEET MISS HONEYWELL&#8217;S REVENGE, the talented <a href=\"http:\/\/www.choldenko.com\/\">Gennifer Choldenko<\/a>, reading her newly released AL CAPONE DOES MY SHIRTS, the irrepressible <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joycemaynard.com\/\">Joyce Maynard<\/a>, reading from THE CLOUD CHAMBER, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesignofthestar.com\/\">Katherine Sturtevant<\/a> reading from the complex and thoughtful novel AT THE SIGN OF THE STAR, and thought-provoking historical novelist<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fantasticfiction.co.uk\/authors\/Michael_Cadnum.htm\"> Michael Cadnum<\/a>, reading from STARFALL. (These books have not yet been reviewed on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readersrants.blogspot.com\/\">our sister site!<\/a> Read them? Let&#8217;s hear about them!)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hosted by our own A.Fortis, this event promises to be exciting and inspirational to all of us fledgling and would-be writers. Why not catch more of the <strong>Litquake &#8217;05 <\/strong>events if you can? Check out their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquake.org\/index-splash.html\">website<\/a> now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Litquake Rocks!!!Thanks to the ever fab Tara Weaver, our humble Finding Wonderland writers are getting a primo chance to be involved with Litquake, San&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-3164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3372,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3164\/revisions\/3372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}