North Texas Book Festival Announces Schedule

North Texas Book Festival released its schedule of events. The festival is 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 11, at Patterson-Appleton Center for the Visual Arts, 400 E. Hickory St., in Denton.

The event is open to the public. There's no charge for admission.

9:00 a.m. North Texas Book Festival opens
9:30-11:30 a.m. Balloon artistry by Al Curlett of Totally Twisted Balloons, the exhibit hall

General Interest Presentations in Craft Room (east wing):
9:15-10:00 a.m. Children's Story Time, featuring children's book authors Andrew Fairchild ("Bali and Blu: Friends of a Different Color") and Danielle A. Vann ("Gracie Lou and the Bad Dream Eater")
10:00-10:45 a.m. Featured Author Shelly Tucker: "Ghosts of Denton"
10:45-11:30 a.m. Stories and Songs by Caryl McAdoo, contemporary Western romance author
11:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Performing Poetry with cowboy poetry recital by Elaine Fields Smith
12:15-1:00 p.m. "Boy! That Air Feels Good: The Untold History of Car Air" by Rod Barclay

Writers' Block presentations on writing and publishing (east wing):
1:00-1:45 p.m. Kathleen M. Rodgers and Jeanie Loiacono on working with an agent
1:45-2:15 p.m. Gale Cochran Smith and Treva Tindol Dawson on writing with a partner
2:15-3:00 p.m. Miracle Austin, Dancing with Rejection: How early publisher rejection strengthens one as an author
4:00 p.m. North Texas Book Festival closes

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