BGuthrie Photos: Gaithersburg Book Festival (2022) -- C.J. Farley, Natasha Friend, Kimberly Jones, Gilly Segal

Gaithersburg Book Festival (2022) -- C.J. Farley, Natasha Friend, Kimberly Jones, Gilly Segal:

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Description of Pictures: C.J. Farley, Natasha Friend, Kimberly Jones, Gilly Segal
Teen/Young Adult
Ogden Nash Pavilion
In "Why We Fly" comes a story about friendship, privilege, sports, and protest. "The Wolves are Waiting" is a compelling investigation of sexual harassment and the toxic and complicit structures of a small college town. For sixteen-year-old Geth Montego, "Zero O'Clock" begins on March 11, 2020. By June, she wonders if it will ever end. Part presentation, part conversation, this panel will be moderated by MCPS school library media specialist Alexis Gerard.
Moderated by Alexis Gerard, MCPS

Teen/YA
C.J. Farley
Latest Title: Zero O'Clock
C.J. Farley was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and lives in New Rochelle, N.Y. A graduate of Harvard University, C.J. is the author of the acclaimed fantasy adventure novel, “Game World,” and the best-selling biography, “Aaliyah: More Than a Woman,” which was adapted into a hit Lifetime movie. C.J.’s young adult novel, “Around Harvard Square,” won an NAACP Image Award and was named a 2020 Honor Book by the Paterson Prize for Books for Young People. His latest novel is “Zero O’Clock.”

Teen/YA
Natasha Friend
Latest Title: The Wolves Are Waiting
Natasha Friend is the author of several YA and middle-grade novels that tackle the truths of teen and tween lives. Her most recent YA novels are “How We Roll” and “The Other F-Word (FSG),” the latter received starred reviews from PW and Booklist and was named on the Rainbow List and ILA Young Adult’s Choice Reading List. Natasha lives in Connecticut with her family and two crazy dogs. When she isn’t writing, she is reading, washing baseball pants and wishing she was in a talent show. She will be presenting “The Wolves Are Waiting” at the Festival.

Teen/YA
Kimberly Jones
Latest Title: Why We Fly
Kimberly Latrice Jones is an American author and filmmaker, known for The New York Times best-selling young adult novel, “I’m Not Dying With You Tonight,” and for the viral video, “How Can We Win,” published during the George Floyd protest. The book was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award in 2020. That same year, a seven-minute video featuring Kim using a Monopoly analogy to explain the history of racism and its impact on Black Americans went viral, being shared by Trevor Noah, LeBron James, Madonna and more. The viral video was featured on shows like “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.” She has subsequently signed an overall deal with Warner Brothers, via her production company Push Films, with her partner DeWayne “Duprano” Martin.
Kim’s literary roots run deep. She served on the Selection Committee for Library of Congress’ 2016-2017 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, the 2015 Children’s Choice Illustrator Committee for The Children’s Book Council, and the advisory board that created the Creative and Innovative Education Master’s Degree program at Georgia State University. She has been featured in Ms. Magazine, Seventeen, Paste Magazine, Bustle, Hello Giggles, Book List, Publisher’s Weekly, School Library Journal, and was Book Brahmin in an issue of Shelf Awareness. She received one of the inaugural James Patterson Holiday Bookseller Bonus grants while working at the famous children’s bookstore, Little Shop of Stories. Most recently, Kim’s best-selling novel, “I’m Not Dying With You Tonight,” co-authored with Gilly Segal, was nominated for an NAACP Image award, Georgia Author of the Year award and the Cybils Awards. “I’m Not Dying With You Tonight” was selected as the September 2019 book club pick for the Barnes & Noble YA book club and Overdrive’s Big Library Read.
She resides in Atlanta and is the proud mother of a gifted boy. She lives for wigs and nail art, as her style icons are Dolly Parton, Chaka Khan and Diana Ross.

Teen/YA
Gilly Segal
Latest Title: Why We Fly
Gilly grew up in Florida, came of age in Israel, where she served in the IDF and graduated from Hebrew University, and finally decided to call Decatur, Ga., home. By day, she’s a lawyer for an advertising agency. By night, she is a caped crusader! No, just kidding (she wishes). Her real not-actually-secret identity is writer. She’s been writing in one form or another since she wrote her first young adult novel – a Sunfire YA romance fanfic – typed out on an electric typewriter. Although she will confess it was titled “Claudia,” she will neither confirm nor deny that any copies still exist. Her debut young adult novel, “I’m Not Dying With You Tonight,” co-written with Kimberly Jones, is a New York Times best-seller and NAACP Image Award Nominee. She is represented by Tracey Adams of Adams Literary and is a Georgia Author of the Year Nominee.

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