{"id":374962,"date":"2025-08-26T12:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T12:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/374962\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T12:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T12:53:10","slug":"bestselling-author-mari-mancusi-to-headline-10th-annual-livingston-parish-book-festival-livingston-tangipahoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/374962\/","title":{"rendered":"Bestselling author Mari Mancusi to headline 10th annual Livingston Parish Book Festival | Livingston\/Tangipahoa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bestselling author Mari Mancusi to headline 10th annual Livingston Parish Book Festival.<\/p>\n<p>Known for her storytelling and imaginative worldbuilding, Mancusi is the author of more than 30 science fiction\/fantasy books in addition to being an Emmy Award-winning former television news producer.<\/p>\n<p>Mancusi\u2019s bestselling series have been awarded spots on major state reading lists and have been featured selections in Scholastic Book Fairs and clubs.<\/p>\n<p>Mancusi\u2019s catalog includes \u201cNew Dragon City\u201d and its upcoming prequel \u201cDawn of the Dragons\u201d; \u201cDragon Ops\u201d and its sequel \u201cDragon Ops: Dragons vs. Robots\u201d; \u201cThe Once and Future Geek\u201d and \u201cGeeks and the Holy Grail\u201d, both from \u201cThe Camelot Code\u201d series; \u201cPrincesses, Inc.\u201d; \u201cGamer Girl\u201d; and \u201cGolden Girl.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mancusi has also written tie-in novels for Disney (such as \u201cFrozen: Polar Nights, Cast into Darkness\u201d; \u201cFrozen: Dangerous Secrets\u201d; and \u201cSally\u2019s Lament\u201d) as well as Netflix (\u201cThe Official Wednesday Cookbook\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>The Livingston Parish Book Festival will be from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 25 at the Main Branch, 20390 Iowa St., Livingston.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by the Livingston Parish Library, the book festival is the library\u2019s biggest single-day event, featuring author discussions, book signings, live music, food, face painting, games, crafts and other family-friendly activities. Visitors are also able to utilize any of the library\u2019s resources.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s book festival will feature a Renaissance theme. There is no cost to attend.<\/p>\n<p>The library will announce its other featured authors and performers for this year\u2019s Livingston Parish Book Festival in the coming weeks. For more information, follow the Library\u2019s social media pages or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mylpl.info\/BookFestival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.mylpl.info\/BookFestival<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bestselling author Mari Mancusi to headline 10th annual Livingston Parish Book Festival. Known for her storytelling and imaginative&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3938],"tags":[3444,77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-374962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115095169048232456","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}