Ron Capps knows a thing or two about writing realistic dialogue. As a writing instructor for the National Endowment for the Arts through Operation Homecoming , at Howard Community College, at The Writer’s Center, and at George Washington University, Ron has helped many writers… Continue Reading
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Q&A with 2012 Featured Author Cathy Alter
Cathy Alter’s feature articles, essays, and reviews have appeared in local and national newspapers and magazines including The Washington Post, Washingtonian, The Atlantic, The Huffington Post, Self, McSweeney’s, and SMITH Magazine. Her book, “Virgin Territory: Stories from the Road to Womanhood” was released in 2004 and her memoir,… Continue Reading
GBF Children’s Village: A Look at Book Arts
by Heidi Bishop What is Book Arts?It’s well known that the Gaithersburg Book Festival is a must-attend celebration of books, writers and literary excellence for DC Metro area book fans, but did you know that the festival is unique… Continue Reading
Q&A with 2012 Featured Authors Marvin & Deborah Kalb
Marvin and Deborah Kalb are a father-daughter journalism team who joined forces to write their new book, “Haunting Legacy: Vietnam and the American Presidency from Ford to Obama.” Marvin Kalb’s journalism career covers 30 years of award-winning reporting and commentary for CBS and NBC News, including a stint as host of… Continue Reading
Q&A with 2012 Featured Author John “Corey” Whaley
John “Corey” Whaley is the author of “Where Things Come Back,” his highly-acclaimed debut novel for Young Adults.Whaley was named a Spring 2011 Flying Start Author by Publishers Weekly as well as a Top Ten New Voice for Teens by the ABC Children’s Group at ALA and a Summer 2011 Okra Pick from the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance . “Where Things Come Back” has also been nominated for the American Library Association’s Best Fiction for Young… Continue Reading
GBF Hands-on Workshops: Short-Short Stories
by Heidi Bishop and Rae Bryant You’ve heard of short stories, but have you ever heard of the Short-Short story format? Short-Short refers to stories of fewer than 1,000 words, which are gaining popularity among both web and… Continue Reading
Q&A with 2012 Featured Author Varley O’Connor
Varley O’Connor is the author of the upcoming novel, “The Master’s Muse.” She is the author of three previous novels, “The Cure,” “A Company of Three,” and “Like China.” Her shorter prose has appeared in The Sun magazine, AWP Writer’s Chronicle, Faultline: A Journal of Art and Literature, Driftwood, Algonkian magazine, and The… Continue Reading
3 more authors to watch at this GBF
The Gazette ran a very nice piece this week about the GBF and the track record we’ve built in identifying and recruiting authors who weren’t all that well-known at the time, but ended up breaking it big. (A few who come to mind… Continue Reading
Q&A with 2012 Featured Author Fred Bowen
Fred Bowen, who writes the weekly KidsPost sports column in The Washington Post, is the author of 16 books of sports fiction (ages 8+) and a picture book biography of Red Sox legend Ted Williams titled “No Easy Way.” Bowen is not your… Continue Reading
A Funny Thing Happened While…
Last week we posted a funny story about an encounter in a Phoenix airport that involved the Gaithersburg Book Festival. We love stories like those. Another recently was shared with one of our Committee members. Pasted below with some information redacted. “I only recently became aware of the festival from a librarian I met at the Public Library Association… Continue Reading