BooksmART Festival

The BooksmART Festival at the DMA was a huge success, and so exciting!  I got to meet a few more fabulous authors and author/illustrators.  Award winners, honored and admired authors were on hand for story telling, lectures, signings and demonstrations.  Although I would love to have participated in every activity, I simply could not be in eight places at once, so chose to focus on a few of my "top choices".  I was lucky enough to sit in on most of Cynthia Leitich Smith's presentation and all of Laurie Halse Anderson's, yet still managed to get a fairly advantageous spot in line for signings... a very good thing, considering the author signing area was outside in the 90+ degree heat on the Ross Avenue plaza.  Rick Riordan die-hard fans were feeling the heat for sure; his signing line began at 11:00, three hours before his scheduled signing at 2:00.  The line was still going strong at 3:45, when I left.


Here is a summary of the authors I was fortunate enough to meet, and the 'new' books I had signed.  (Happy dance!)

Then, there are couple I was able to see, but not able to get for signing, due to time constraints. I am pretty sure those there for Rick Riordan were not able to accomplish much else, bless their hearts.  I am so glad I was able to already see him in 2010 at TLA!