Event that brings authors from all over the country to nashville each fall to breed with the thousands of readers and writers and booklovers from around the region. For those of us who enjoy being here the second weekend of october every year we are lucky its a free event. Thank you to a lot of the community support. Remember that the festival does depend on individual donations among other sources to remain free. Please take the time to donate what you can to help keep it free and any amount helps. Whatever amount you can spare. You can donate via the website, the app, or in person at the headquarters, tenant, throughout the weekend. And any amount is appreciated. Let me introduce the authors, kendra allen, the author of when you learn the alphabet. And janine the author of my time among the whites. Those are the books they will be talking about today. Kendra, i think you said you wanted to go first. Yes. What we will do as each of the authors is going to read from their book a little
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