Saratoga Springs, Ep. 1
Saturday, October 22, 2022 at 10:15PM 
October 22, 2022 — In our first-ever jaunt to Saratoga Springs, we were overjoyed to take part in the brilliant Saratoga Book Festival, in a thrilling early-evening showcase that saw Jung Yun narrowly topple Nancy Werlin in a Repeat After Me finale, winning Yun the LDM Saratoga Springs, Ep. 1 crown, and literary immortality to go with it.
Here's who else took part:
JUDGES:
Literary Merit: Rachel Person, events and community outreach coordinator at Northshire Bookstore
Performance: CJ Purdy, freelance publicist for books & authors of serious nonfiction and program manager for the Saratoga Book Festival
Intangibles: Beck Krefting, professor of American Studies at Skidmore — affiliate faculty to Gender Studies, Black Studies, Intergroup Relations, and Media and Film Studies — and Director of the Center for Leadership, Teaching, and Learning
READERS:
Round 1:
* Kathryn Bertine, multiple-time champion cyclist, activist, documentary filmmaker and author of STAND: A Memoir on Activism. A Manual for Progress
* Jung Yun, author of O Beautiful, a New York Times Editor's Choice and Shelter, long-listed for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, finalist for Barnes & Noble's Discover Great New Writers Award, and a semi-finalist for Good Reads’ Best Fiction Book
Round 2:
* Nancy Werlin, author of twelve books for teens, including the all-new Healer And Witch, National Book Award Finalist The Rules of Survival, and Edgar Award-winner The Killer's Cousin, and the New York Times bestseller Impossible
* Lynn Painter, author of Mr. Wrong Number, The Do-Over and the USA Today and New York Times-Bestselling Better Than Movies
Hosted by LDM creator Adrian Todd Zuniga (author of the award-nominated novel Collision Theory)