{"id":323,"date":"2015-11-17T09:28:48","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T15:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/?p=323"},"modified":"2015-11-17T09:28:48","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T15:28:48","slug":"ncte-bound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/2015\/11\/ncte-bound\/","title":{"rendered":"NCTE Bound!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always wanted to go to NCTE. I&#8217;ve heard marvelous things about it. Now, it&#8217;s coming to my hometown(ish) and I get to see it in all its glory.<\/p>\n<p>I will be signing ARCs of my forthcoming middle grade fantasy, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781616205058\">THE SECRET OF DREADWILLOW CARSE<\/a>, this Friday (November 20) at 2:00 in the Algonquin Young Readers Booth (525-527). People have been saying nice things about it:<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153This book is wise and wonderful.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u201dWilliam Alexander, National Book Award-winning author of <em>Goblin Secrets<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Mesmerizing . . . This is an adventure story, yes, but it is something more\u00e2\u20ac\u201dit is a story of the transformational power of curiosity, tenacity, and courage.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201dKelly Barnhill, author of <em>The Witch\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Boy<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The carse is a dark, foreboding place within a creepily blissful land. Like Aon and Jeniah, I felt myself drawn there . . . A compelling examination of what it means to be sad while finding unexpected happiness.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u201dSarah Prineas, author of the Magic Thief series<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;The Secret of Dreadwillow Carse is a deep, lyrical, satisfying story that will stay with you long after you have finished it.&#8221;&#8211;Sage Blackwood, author of the JINX\u00c2\u00a0trilogy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re attending NCTE, I would love to see you. We can chat. About the weather. About that fabulous cover by <a href=\"http:\/\/mattrockefeller.com\/\">Matt Rockefeller<\/a>. About DOCTOR WHO (yes, please, I&#8217;m dying to). Or about anything, really. Or you can just show up and I&#8217;ll smile at you nervously. Which hopefully isn&#8217;t as creepy as it sounds.<\/p>\n<p>Hope to see you there!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/NCTE-2015-Brian-Farrey-Signing-Social.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-324\" src=\"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/NCTE-2015-Brian-Farrey-Signing-Social-300x270.jpg\" alt=\"NCTE 2015 Brian Farrey Signing Social\" width=\"300\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/NCTE-2015-Brian-Farrey-Signing-Social-300x270.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/NCTE-2015-Brian-Farrey-Signing-Social.jpg 821w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always wanted to go to NCTE. I&#8217;ve heard marvelous things about it. Now, it&#8217;s coming to my hometown(ish) and I get to see it in all its glory. I will be signing ARCs of my forthcoming middle grade fantasy, THE SECRET OF DREADWILLOW CARSE, this Friday (November 20) at 2:00 in the Algonquin Young [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}