{"id":761,"date":"2012-12-29T14:34:13","date_gmt":"2012-12-29T20:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?p=761"},"modified":"2012-12-29T14:34:13","modified_gmt":"2012-12-29T20:34:13","slug":"introducing-the-monthly-author-meet-greet-saturday-january-19-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?p=761","title":{"rendered":"Introducing the Monthly Author Meet &#038; Greet, Saturday January 19, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?attachment_id=760\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-760\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-760\" title=\"Galveston Bookshop Monthly Meet &amp; Greet\" src=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/wpbeta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/meetgreet-logo-450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We are happy to announce a new monthly event featuring Texas authors with their newest books. Each month we will feature a book discussion and signing with 2 or 3 Texas writers with an emphasis on emerging talent and first books. We are primarily interested in books with Texas themes or Texas locales.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Saturday January 19th, 2013<br \/>\n2:00-4:00 p.m.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>We kick off the program with the following guests:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brenda Blair<\/strong>: <em>Because of the Camels<\/em>, an historical fiction based on actual events from 1850s Galveston and elsewhere in Texas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lisa Bossier<\/strong>: <em>Queen of the Waves<\/em>, a Christian historical fiction involving the hurricane in Galveston in 1943 during WWII.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sue Mayfield Geiger<\/strong>: <em>Gibbons Street<\/em>, a memoir of a Texas working class family told through poetry and photography.<\/p>\n<p>Join us on Saturday and meet the authors!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Upcoming event dates:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>February Meet &amp; Greet: Saturday the 23rd<br \/>\nMarch Meet &amp; Greet: Saturday the 16th<br \/>\nApril Meet &amp; Greet: Saturday the 20th<\/p>\n<p>If you are a Texas writer and would like to participate, please contact Sharan Zwick at (409) 750-8200 or email at oleandercity@yahoo.com.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?attachment_id=796\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-796\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-796\" title=\"Authors from first ever Meet &amp; Greet 1\/19\/2013\" src=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/wpbeta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/meet-and-greet-1-authors.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"276\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From left: Brenda Blair, Lisa Bossier, Sue Mayfield Geiger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are happy to announce a new monthly event featuring Texas authors with their newest books. Each month we will feature a book discussion and signing with 2 or 3 Texas writers with an emphasis on emerging talent and first &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?p=761\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Introducing the Monthly Author Meet &#038; Greet, Saturday January 19, 2013<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,5,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}