{"id":5432,"date":"2021-05-01T23:28:56","date_gmt":"2021-05-02T04:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/?p=5432"},"modified":"2021-05-04T23:50:19","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T04:50:19","slug":"winnsboro-festival-of-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/?p=5432","title":{"rendered":"Winnsboro Festival of Books"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"396\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_5763-a-1024x396.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5438\" srcset=\"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_5763-a-1024x396.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_5763-a-300x116.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_5763-a-768x297.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_5763-a.jpeg 1531w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"585\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_5763-1024x585.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5433\" srcset=\"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_5763-1024x585.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_5763-300x171.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_5763-768x439.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_5763.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Today I attended my very first book festival at the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Winnsboro Festival of Books (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/winnsboro.bookfestival.network\" target=\"_blank\">Winnsboro Festival of Books<\/a> in Winnsboro, Texas! I met many great authors and was honored to be a part of the Children\u2019s Literature Panel along with the very talented <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Nancy Churnin (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nancychurnin.com\" target=\"_blank\">Nancy Churnin<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Mary Brooke Casad (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/bluebonnetarmadillo.com\" target=\"_blank\">Mary Brooke Casad<\/a>, and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Rosie J. Pova (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rosiejpova.com\" target=\"_blank\">Rosie J. Pova<\/a>. Together, we learned about each other\u2019s books and answered many great questions about the writing process and what it\u2019s like creating stories for children of all ages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"694\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_5725-1024x694.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5434\" srcset=\"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_5725-1024x694.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_5725-300x203.jpg 300w, http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_5725-768x520.jpg 768w, http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_5725.jpg 1055w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_5715-1024x640.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5435\" srcset=\"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_5715-1024x640.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_5715-300x188.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_5715-768x480.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_5715.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to Terry Mathews and the Winnsboro Center for the Arts for inviting me and for lunch at the wonderful South African restaurant, <a href=\"http:\/\/liefie.us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Liefie Li Vine (opens in a new tab)\">Liefie Li Vine<\/a>. I had a great time, and as I mentioned to all who attended, feel free to shoot any writing questions my way via:\u00a0<a>ant@masteele.com<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"675\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_5691-1024x675.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5436\" srcset=\"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_5691-1024x675.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_5691-300x198.jpg 300w, http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_5691-768x506.jpg 768w, http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_5691-1536x1012.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/IMG_5691-2048x1350.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I attended my very first book festival at the Winnsboro Festival of Books in Winnsboro, Texas! I met many great authors and was honored to be a part of the Children\u2019s Literature Panel along with the very talented Nancy Churnin, Mary Brooke Casad, and Rosie J. Pova. Together, we learned about each other\u2019s books [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[102],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5432"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5432"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5439,"href":"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5432\/revisions\/5439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelanthonysteele.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}