BCinDC & the 2011 Convention

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On Saturday, January 28, 2012 BCinDC members met at the Ballston Mall food court to swap books and talk. We had so many members show up, we ended up acquiring table after table. There were some wrapped books that hadn’t made it to the holiday party, and we had fun reading the first lines & opening those. We also had a small army of members in convention shirts!

In attendance: 6of8 & coworker, authorauthor, beautyredefined, Firegirl, FURBALL, Ixion, KateKintail, lilbit_aj, LittleWhiteBird, LN569, melydia, SqueakyChu, and tiatia.
Many books found new homes with BCinDCers (and friend). Some will be wild released by BCinDCers, and some were taken to the OBCZ at the Sheraton.

ResQgeek is hosting the 2nd annual release challenge in honor of his daughter, Becky. Find details about this year’s release challenge over at the BookCrossing Release Challenge Forum.

You can now get a link to buy labels or download & print your own labels for your books by visiting our Remembering Becky page.

And be sure to visit http://www.beckyshugs.com/ for the Becky’s Hugs Facebook page.

Street Sense, a Washington, D.C.-based biweekly street newspaper, featured an article about BookCrossing and BCinDC in the April 27, 2011 issue. Check out the great article here: Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost

You can expect some news, links, and photos from us regarding the convention and Kensington very soon. But until then, here’s a post about BCinDC’s upcoming table at the Gaithersburg Book Festival.

The Gaithersburg Book Festival is scheduled (rain or shine) for Saturday, May 21, 2011, from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM in Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA. BCinDC will have an official tent where we will be able to distribute FREE books to all festival-goers. This is the second year in a row that the city of Gaitherburg has kindly invited us to join their festivities. It was great fun last year, and we’re determined to make this year’s festival even better.

All Bookcrossers are invited to attend. Whoever wants to man the tent is free to do so. You are under no obligation to remain in the tent the whole time, as there is so much else to do at the Festival. We will just congregate in the tent and explain the fun of BookCrossing to visiting festival-goers. The admission price to the fair is… FREE!!!

Mark your calendars now! If you have any questions about the festival, feel free to contact SqueakyChu by PM.

Please visit this page: http://www.bookcrossing.com/forum/22/456260 and report in with the number of books you’ve pre-released to the festival, so we can get a good count. You can also send books to SqueakyChu, but they must arrive by May 14 so she has time to organize and box them up for the festival.

On Sunday, March 20, BCinDC members met up at Elevation Burger in National Harbor. We slowly took over one table, then two, three, and four as space opened up around us and our books got some room to spread out.

After lunch, some of us headed down to the waterfront to visit the Peeps store and the Awakening statue–even Bally joined in on the fun there.

BookCrossers in attendance were: authorauthor, crrcookie, Ixion, KateKintail, lilgrovers, LN569, mdm139, melydia, nat4lee, ResQgeek, Rock-Solid, theshaggyfreak, tiatia, and T-train