Gaithersburg Book Festival (2014) -- Rachel Renee Russell w/Erin & Nikki Russell ("Dork Diaries"):
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Description of Pictures: Rachel Renée Russell is the author of the popular "Dork Diaries" series (Aladdin), which has been on The New York Times Best Seller List for more than 80 weeks. She is also an attorney who prefers writing tween books to legal briefs. (Mainly because books are a lot more fun and pajamas and bunny slippers aren’t allowed in court.) Her hobbies include growing purple flowers and doing totally useless crafts (like, for example, making a microwave oven out of Popsicle sticks, glue and glitter). Rachel lives in Northern Virginia with a spoiled pet Yorkie who terrorizes her daily by climbing on top of a computer cabinet and pelting her with stuffed animals while she writes.
Erin Russell began her writing career at the University of Michigan, where she majored in Creative Writing. Her comic strip series, “Jaded Joy,” was recognized as the best college cartoon in the nation and earned her the coveted Charles M. Schulz Award for College Cartoonists. In 2011, Erin began writing for the New York Times best-selling children's book series, Dork Diaries. Erin describes herself as a dork, foodie and amateur chef. She also enjoys watching marathon sessions of her favorite television cartoons.
Nikki Russell graduated from the University of Michigan with a bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education. She taught first grade until landing her dream job as the illustrator for the New York Times best-selling children’s book series, Dork Diaries. Nikki is also busy at work on her own children’s book project. She resides in Northern Virginia. In her spare time, she enjoys shopping, listening to music, doodling and watching the Home & Garden channel with her dog, Shadow
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RUSSEL_140517_001_STITCH.JPG: User comment: Lots of fans jumping with joy, wait to get their copy of the dork diaries series book signed by, the author Rachel Renee Russell.
RUSSEL_140517_015.JPG: Erin Russell
RUSSEL_140517_025.JPG: Nikki Russell
RUSSEL_140517_067.JPG: Rachel Renee Russell, Erin Russell
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2014 photos: Equipment this year: I mostly used my Fuji XS-1 camera but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000.
Trips this year:
three Civil War Trust conferences (Winchester, VA, Nashville, TN, and Atlanta, GA),
Michigan to visit mom in the hospice before she died and then a return trip after she died, and
my 9th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including Las Vegas, Reno, Carson City, Sacramento, Oakland, and Los Angeles).
Ego strokes: Paul Dickson used one of my photos as the author photo in his book "Aphorisms: Words Wrought by Writers".
Number of photos taken this year: just over 470,000.
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