the books are for sale here courtesy of bookpeople, our great local independent bookseller, and i encourage you to support local booksellers. the texas book festival is a nonprofit organization and its mission is to support low income schools in texas with other visits and book donations via its rita rock stars program and to fund grants for libraries in texas, so your purchases make a huge difference in the lives of texas kids. so please by early and often. the texas book festival is also in a a book drive this weekendo raise money to a rebuilt texas labor is affected by hurricane harvey. so if you donate $15 at any registered to buy book for reading rockstar, student, the texas book festival will match your donation with book to rebuild a library affected by the hurricane. so one book purchase puts three books in a library. so please keep that in mind. all right, so it is my very great pleasure to be here with ellen ullman. she is i'm just going to read a little of her bio. she wrote her first computer program in 1978 commit on top a 20 year career as a programmer and software engineer. h

the books are for sale here courtesy of bookpeople, our great local independent bookseller, and i encourage you to support local booksellers. the texas book festival is a nonprofit organization and its mi

the books are for sale courtesy of bookpeople in austin institution. remember when you buy a book at the festival you support the author, the festival and local independent book stores. that's good. texas book festival is nonprofit. nonprofit. its mission is to thwart low income students in texas with all the visits and book donations by its reading rock stars program and also to fund grants for libraries throughout the state of texas. your book purchase really does make a difference. okay, i think were going to kick it off there. well, let's get into this. juli, "spineless" is about jellyfish. >> it is. >> which is an interesting topic. yesterday in fact, was world jellyfish day. >> i was just as surprised to find out as probably everyone. >> jellyfish are fascinating. everybody has experienced a jellyfish sting out in the wild so to speak, swimming in the ocean and that's how most of us know about jellyfish. where i was turned onto a fascinating jolliffe ishtar are was when i visited the monterey bay aquarium back in the '90s when at that jellyfish e

books are for sale courtesy of the great independent bookseller bookpeople. [applause] buy a book. when you buy a book your support not only the author, the festival and a great local indie store but you are also helping the texas book festival as a nonprofit entity, pursuant to its mission of supporting low-income schools with other visits, but donations via the reading rock stars program and to fund grants for libraries throughout the state. additionally the festival is running a benefit, a book drive benefit this weekend to raise money to rebuild texas libraries that were damaged by hurricane harvey. that program works like this, when you go to the cash register to check out and purchase your books, simply tell the cashier that you would like to donate an additional $15 to buy a book for a reading rock star student. the tbf and the tucker foundation for each match your donation to rebuild a library affected by hurricane harvey. you can see, by one book, kids in texas and the library system, three books in that going to help people. all of this should make it quite clear exactly