Wordstock 2008 – Portland, Oregon

Wordstock, Portland’s big book festival (convention?), is coming up here in November. Nov 7th – 9th to be exact. This is a annual event that I believe is in it’s in its third year. Authors from all over come to give talks, there’s workshops and other literary related events. Needless to say, it should be fun.

This year, since I decided to be more active in my literary community, I volunteered to help out at Wordstock doing whatever they need me to do. This evening I received an e-mail informing me that I would be a Stage Manager. Read that again. Stage Manager. Manager. I sound pretty important. That’s not the best part. I get an assistant. Is it immature to giggle at the thought of me having an assistant?

Power trip aside, I put up a little link to the Wordstock page on the right hand side of the site that will take you to the Wordstock web site so you can find out more information about the event and so that you can start making your plans to attend accordingly.

For those of you who happen to enjoy The Book Pirate via RSS feed (or whatever) and completely ignore all the time and effort I spent putting in to the design of this site, you can see the Wordstock logo right here.


See. Nifty huh?

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