{"id":294,"date":"2011-12-08T23:21:13","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T04:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/?p=294"},"modified":"2012-07-04T18:49:19","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T22:49:19","slug":"zanjan-in-boston-and-illinois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/2011\/12\/08\/zanjan-in-boston-and-illinois\/","title":{"rendered":"Zanjan in Boston and Illinois"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Z1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-296 alignnone\" style=\"margin: 2px;\" title=\"Z1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Z1-300x224.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Z1-300x224.gif 300w, https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Z1.gif 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Studio 9 book release celebration for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/zanjan\/\">Zanjan<\/a>, in Wilmette, Illinois on November 19, drew 60 people from several states.\u00c2\u00a0 Artist C. Aaron Kreader spoke and answered questions, and the event ended with demo tables for his new fantasy card game <a href=\"http:\/\/studio9inc.com\/VillagersandVillains\/\" target=\"_blank\">Villagers &amp; Villains<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My first book talk for Zanjan came two weeks later on December 2 in Boston. I was introduced by award-winning author Patricia Tomarelli, who also arranged the event:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Z3.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-297\" title=\"Z3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Z3-300x186.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Z3-300x186.gif 300w, https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Z3.gif 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A cake frosted to look like the cover (shown above) was donated by Samantha, a Boston-area baker.\u00c2\u00a0 In fact, I received an enormous amount of support from the community in Boston, including from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/TheRealMasoud\" target=\"_blank\">Masoud<\/a>, who added Zanjan to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicbookdb.com\/issue.php?ID=239338\" target=\"_blank\">Comic Book Database<\/a>, and Sana, who has started a Zanjan book group and drew a picture of me during the talk:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Z4.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-298\" title=\"Z4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Z4-225x300.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Z4-225x300.gif 225w, https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Z4.gif 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And of course I signed a lot of books.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Z2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-299\" title=\"Z2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Z2-224x300.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Z2-224x300.gif 224w, https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Z2.gif 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Studio 9 book release celebration for Zanjan, in Wilmette, Illinois on November 19, drew 60 people from several states.\u00c2\u00a0 Artist C. Aaron Kreader spoke and answered questions, and the event ended with demo tables for his new fantasy card game Villagers &amp; Villains. My first book talk for Zanjan came two weeks later on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,3,4],"tags":[9,8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaronemmel.com\/cw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}