Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Bay Area Book Festival


We had the Bay Area Book Festival over the weekend. It was held in Downtown Berkeley and it was was awesome. They had a lot of local writers, local book presses,book stores and free book giveaways out. They also had a lot of forums and places to meet different writers. It was a really cool event:




At the open mic
A book reading
And the writers:

Jeanette Watts promoting her book
Motivational Speaker Trenia Today at her booth
Fantasy and Paranormal author Jenna Johnson singing a poster
YA writer Virginia Boecker answering questions
I had two highlights. The first was meeting and getting to talk to Dave Zirin who has written many of  the"People's History" books.:

Dave Zirin autographing my book

The second was going to a forum by Peter Coyote and then getting to meet him afterword. That was super cool:

Peter Coyote (left) reading from his book
Peter Coyote and his book

The Bay Area Book Festival was super. This was the first one I hope there are many more.
(I am working on answering everybody's wonderful comments. I hate the last the month of school, it is chopped full of events)

38 comments:

  1. Looks like tons of fun! I love book festivals.

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  2. I agree it looked like fun...I haven't been to one in years :-(

    Have a booktastic day :-)

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  3. Wow that is a great book fest!!!! Lots of reading and knowledge gained from books!! I dont read enough! Oh unless we count online.

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  4. As an author myself - I love this!

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  5. Loves like a great place to visit!

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  6. This looks like my kind of event. I dabble in writing, but no one has wanted to publish my five novels.

    http://joycelansky.blogspot.com/2015/06/ww-photo-booth-photos.html

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  7. Wud love to see more pics of Berkley, I hear it's a lot like here.

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  8. Very cool! Looks like a fun event!

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  9. That looks like a fun place to be. Thanks for joining us on Oh My Heartsie Girl Wordless Wednesday!

    Shellie
    www.thefabjourney.com

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  10. OOhhhh amazing event to attend! I havent been to a book event lately and this post made me miss attending one =)

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  11. WOW, looks like so much fun filled with amazing opportunities to buy good material and meet some authors, too. Enjoy your summer, Patrick!

    I Can See Clearly #WW

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  12. Looks like my kind of event. Wish events like this happened closer to home.

    S'More Cake WW at Royalegacy

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  13. Cool! A book fair is always cool, but you even get to meet the authors? How neat is that. Thank you so much for sharing such a cool day you had Patrick. You really go to so many nice places in your town.

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  14. What a great event. I go to the Dubai one whenever I can. I find meeting authors so inspirational

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  15. What a great venue! Love that city!

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  16. Reading is one of life's simple pleasures! Glad to know you enjoy reading, too.
    Thanks for sharing at http://image-in-ing.blogspot.com/2015/06/in-memoriam-ling.html

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  17. Oh yeah the end of school is always rough! Looks like a fun time!

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  18. Wow! That's terrific! I would love to attend a book festival. I wish they had one in my neck of the woods!

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  19. That looks like fun! That reminds me...I need to get on the public library's site here to enter all the books my kids have read.

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  20. Looks like a fab event, how great to meet so many great authors! Thanks for linking with #allaboutyou

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  21. As a book lover, this looks like so much fun!

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  22. Book festival! Ahhh!!! I want one in my city too!

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  23. would love to go to something like this!! amazing opportunity and how nice that you were able to meet some authors you enjoy. I think I would fangirl and faint if I ever had the chance to meet Stephen King!

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  24. I love book festivals! This one looks like it was fabulous!

    Thank you for linking up with the #REASONS2TRAVEL linkup!

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  25. I love book festivals! Do you like living in the Bay Area? cheers from kidcandoodle.com!

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  26. wow cool - I never went to a book festival - looks awesome :)

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  27. Whoo how cool is this!! Looks like a great event :)

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  28. Cool festival! I love the lady in period dress :) Thanks for joining the #REASONS2TRAVEL linkup!!

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  29. I love books so thanks for sharing on #wednesdayswisdom

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  30. Wow! So fun. Pinned and tweeted. We appreciate you stopping by to party with us. We hope to see you, tonight at 7 pm. Happy Monday! Lou Lou Girls

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  31. Looks like such a fun event! Thank you for sharing at Pin Worthy Wednesday!

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  32. What a fantastic event, I'd love to attend something like that. I'm glad you shared at Bound by Books. For what it's worth, jeannie.

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  33. Looks like a fun event! Thank you for sharing at Waiting on...Wednesday!

    Holly @ www.iwillservewhileiwait.blogspot.com

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  34. Thanks for linking up with Booknificent Thursday last week. Unfortunately, my site is down so there won't be a link-up this week. I hope to be back up and running next week and hope to see you there!
    Tina

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  35. I wish I lived closer -- I would have LOVED to go!

    Thank you so much for sharing this at Grandma Ideas Sharing Time link party. It’s a great post! Thank you so much for sharing this at Grandma Ideas Sharing Time link party. (I've pinned it!)

    All the best,
    Nina

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  36. It sounds like a great event and how fantastic that you had the chance to meet the authors. Thank you for joining the #REASONS2TRAVEL linkup. Are you on twitter?

    Angie from reasons to dress, fashion, travel and life as a mom in Italy.

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