{"id":228,"date":"2015-04-17T15:04:13","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T15:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/?p=228"},"modified":"2015-06-26T19:51:37","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T19:51:37","slug":"london-book-fair-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/?p=228","title":{"rendered":"London Book Fair 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: .1pt 0cm .1pt 0cm;\">Well, that was tiring \u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: .1pt 0cm .1pt 0cm;\">Slogging around the London Book fair is always exhausting \u2013 but, for authors, as much as publishers, it\u2019s important to see what\u2019s there. With that in mind, several Nibwebbers attended the fair \u2013 most who got there, did so on Tuesday 14 April.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: .1pt 0cm .1pt 0cm;\">After the stifling claustrophobia of the Earl\u2019s Court site, Olympia \u2013 with its lovely glass ceiling \u2013 was a pleasant change. Many members had useful (and enjoyable) meetings with publishers and potential publishers,\u00a0but we did\u00a0agree that there is room \u2013 a lot of room \u2013 for\u00a0 \u00a0children\u2019s non-fiction\u00a0to take some risks and start to\u00a0go in new and exciting directions, especially in traditional print.\u00a0And we&#8217;re all here to contribute &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: .1pt 0cm .1pt 0cm;\">If the recession really is ending, now could be a good time\u00a0for innovative and challenging ideas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: .1pt 0cm .1pt 0cm;\">\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-232\" src=\"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC02019-300x239.jpg\" alt=\"DSC02019\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC02019-300x239.jpg 300w, http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC02019-1024x817.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: .1pt 0cm .1pt 0cm;\">Photo: Jenny Vaughan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that was tiring \u2026 Slogging around the London Book fair is always exhausting \u2013 but, for authors, as much as publishers, it\u2019s important to see what\u2019s there. With that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authorblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343,"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions\/343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}