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Book Festivals
by, Jill Swenson
August 7, 2018

Around the country there are a variety of book festivals which bring authors and readers together. Book festivals are different than literary festivals which are intended for writers instead of readers. They are opportunities for authors to promote and market their book directly to their audience. Readers find them celebrations of their favorite books and authors with readings, signings, presentations, special events, and performances. While… [Read More]

Filed Under: American Writers Museum, book festivals, BookReporter, Fox Cities Book Festival, Gaithersburg Book Festival, National Book Festival
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A Texas-Size Book Festival
by, Ruth Goldhor Chlebowski
November 1, 2011

Austin hosted the  16th Texas Book Festival at the state capitol building October 22-23 with 250 authors presenting and 35,000 in attendance. Los Angeles may boast the much larger Los Angeles Times Festival of Book, which attracts as many as 140,000 visitors; but when you compare LA’s population of 9.8 million to Austin’s 800,000, you see that Austin pulled off a bigger, per capita turn out…. [Read More]

Filed Under: book fairs, book festivals, Lit Crawl, Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, Paula Deen, Stephen Harrigan, Texas Book Festival, Texas State Cemetery
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