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The Morristown Festival of Books on October eleventh and twelfth is THE place for readers, authors, aspiring authors and all who love new concepts. With 24 periods to select from — three moderated by our personal Carol Fitzgerald — deciding which of them to attend just isn’t simple and perhaps even a check of your character traits. Do you go to listen to an creator who you may have learn and love, or do you progress out of your consolation zone and attend a session a few ebook or an creator you haven’t learn or maybe haven’t even heard of? My good friend and fellow ebook membership member Donna and I did a bit of of each and weren’t upset.
I don’t attend many baseball video games however determined to listen to Paul Goldberger discuss his ebook, BALLPARK: Baseball within the American Metropolis, exactly as a result of I know nothing about this subject. I had by no means given a lot thought to ballpark design and structure as a perform of society and tradition, however I realized a lot and was so entertained by his charming presentation. Ask me any query about why the dimensions of outfields differs from park to park!
As excellent and properly run because the Pageant is, the one dilemma attendees face is the place to eat. Nicely, this 12 months, for the primary time on the Pageant, William Morrow’s Book Club Girl solved that drawback in essentially the most extraordinary trend. Jennifer Hart and her staff took their E-book Membership Woman occasion on the street to Morristown. Usually, these night occasions on the HarperCollins workplaces in New York Metropolis characteristic mild cocktails and snacks, a panel of authors questioned by an interviewer (usually by Carol), and a present bag of books and swag. In a inventive transfer, the “on the street” model featured 4 authors who every gave a brief “elevator speech” to explain their new books after which rotated by means of the tables of attendees, sitting and spending a substantial period of time attending to know us, answering questions and signing their books.
What I seen first off is how the identical query requested in a small group will get a way more private and conversational response than when it’s requested in a big group setting. How do you discover an agent? What number of occasions have been you rejected? What’s your writing course of? And on this small group, I’m positive the authors would inform you that they realized a lot extra about readers. An added bonus was William Morrow’s Senior Director of Advertising and marketing, Tavia Kowalchuk, who shared previews of upcoming books.
The lunch featured authors Jennifer Robson (THE GOWN), Jean Kwok (SEARCHING FOR SYLVIE LEE), S.A. Chakraborty (THE KINGDOM OF COPPER) and Beatriz Williams (co-author of the upcoming ALL THE WAYS WE SAID GOODBYE with Lauren Willig and Karen White, aka “Crew W”). We obtained these books, in addition to a wine glass, a bottle opener and coasters within the new E-book Membership Woman bag.
And, most significantly, we ate lunch!
