Welcome!

Hi book lover. Okay, so we're assuming you're a book lover if you're interested in the Gaithersburg Book Festival. We think it's a safe assumption.

This is our first post... a welcome post. And we're excited to launch our new blog. What will you find here that's different than our website? Two items immediately spring to mind:

1. Q&As with some of our authors that we hope will whet your appetite and make you want to come to the festival to hear more from these amazing voices
2. Short stories. Yup, you read that right. Short stories. We ran a short story contest for high school students this year and we're going to post stories from the 10 finalists leading up to the festival. Then, at the festival, the students will get a chance to read their stories out loud and we'll announce a winner. (The winner gets a $100 gift card to Barnes and Noble.) We've just started reading through our 114 entries -- wow! We can't believe we got that many -- and can't wait to start announcing and showing off our finalists.

We'll post other updates as we get closer to the festival itself. And we hope we'll hear from you. Have a question about the festival? Email us. We'll do our best to answer online.

In the meantime, make sure you subscribe to our e-newsletter so you can hear the latest news every month!

And, as always, Happy Reading!