I wasn't able to stay all day but I was able to enjoy a lovely park, beautiful weather and table after table after table lined with books and authors galore. Galore, I tell you! I even knew some of the authors, which was exciting, because they're all celebrities to me. And I met some local writers who I hope will join us in the future as guest authors here on the old blog.
The festival, put on by the Friends of the Duarte Library, included local and nationally-known authors. I already checked the website for information about the 10th annual because I want to mark my calendar now. Nothing's posted yet but I'll be sure to let you know.
22 comments:
Next time I'm going with.
Wow, what a fabulous day out. We have nothing like that around here; our writers' "festivals" tend to be earnest, dour affairs, held in small dark rooms. Yet another reason to want to move to California. Sigh …
Yay for books in the park! I went to a mystery writers' festival last fall. It was happy and enlightening -- I never knew that so many intellectual, wordy people existed who have murder on their minds! Even better -- they were all regional folk rather than the few people whose titles we see in the book stores.
It is great to be participant. And a visitor, too.
Yay! Sweetie, I think you'd like it.
Dive, I think I'd enjoy the earnest, dour affair as well, depending on the authors. It would be fun to try it at least once.
Speedway, yes! Happy and enlightening. The Duarte party included the regional people as well as a couple of national names who hail from here. A good mix.
Irina, I believe you know the feeling of being both, and you know it's my ambition.
It was great to see you yesterday at the Festival, Petrea! Thanks for everything!
I was there last year. Kind of random, but that was part of the fun.
A nice day to be at a fair. I checked out the web site. Are you going to be attending the panel discussions?
Next year, you'll be marketing your own book, which is sure to be published by then. It looks like a fun event, I wish I'd known it was outdoors. There was a similar event in a park in Toronto while I was there, and it was such fun. Were there any writers whose books are only available online? I'm wondering how they handle the marketing.
It was lovely to meet you in person, Margo!
Roberta, give us more details, please, of what you mean by "random." I think I know but I'd love to have your take on it.
It was only for one day, PA (yesterday). I looked in on one of the discussions but I had very little time to stay so I can't give an opinion on what they were like.
I can't answer your question, Bellis, but there were probably about 50 writers there so my guess would be yes. As for my own book, two years is a better guess and it's not a guarantee!
Thanks for sharing this, Petrea. I'll be there next year.
Looks like a lot of fun.
Hi Christina, welcome. Please stop by any time.
We'll go next year with John, Hiker.
What a fun time. I can't believe you went without me. Wait. I was working yesterday anyway.
Didn't I send you an email? I think I did. And you said you had to work. Ha! A likely excuse.
Looks like a wonderful affair! Glad you were able to go.
It does look like fun. Next year I'm going, too.
Ms. M, you're the best.
We'll take a caravan next year, Susan.
What, no table for you? Next year.
The smiley face goes here, Dina. Thank you.
Look what I found.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4ORxZY7jkg
That's great, Sue! Candace is not one of the authors I met there. I kind of rushed through, unfortunately. But what a good idea she had, to make a video of her visit. Authors these days have to do most or all of their own publicity, unless they're best-sellers like Steven King.
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