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
tracking this really dramatic a system, lawrence, what s happening? yeah, hard not to get involved in the story, but this is happening all around us may be one of the exciting weather events we ve seen for quite some time. maybe back. into the 70 s about to develop. now we ve seen some scattered pop up showers around the bay area. really most of areas seeing some sunshine, but it fell those cold temperatures outside numbers right now hovering in the mid 40 s even along the coastline in pacifica. 48 degrees in cocker. 46 and sonoma. look at calistoga already in the afternoon. 37 degrees. so you ve got that cold air in place tonight. freezing frost and freeze warnings going up across the bay area overnight lows going to be in the 20 s and the 30 s and we ll start to see a few more showers and some pop-up snow showers as we head through the night tonight. look at all that cold air just rotating in throughout the bay area and across much of the western half of the united stat