Time, but glad to be here. Im also chair of the brickle avenue literary society. Turn your cell phones off, please. Thank you all for coming. Lets thank our sponsors. We need to do that in every session, because they are soan important to the success of the fair. So big thanks to knight foundation, ohl, the bachelor foundation, the degroot foundation. As always, thank you to all the friends of the book fair. We hope everybody whos in thisr room will be a friend by next year so you can enjoy all thee activities that are available for friends during the year. We thank our volunteers, we thank the staff of the book fair and super big thanks to miamidade college. [applause] okay, thanks so all. [applause] we have a big crowd, so let me start by introducing our authors introducer. She has been, talk about good examples, a friend of the Miami Book Fair since the very first year. How many of you are founding book fair friends . Anybody else been around as long as marcia . A few. Okay, good. A
It is not nearly as chilly today as over the weekend. You can plan on just a couple of extra clouds, a weak cool front is moving at this hour. We stay dry toefr next few days. Sal, thank you. On the traffic watch 12. Miller parkway and it is looking pretty good right now. The super moon is out there. Ben our big story this morning, a wisconsinite chosen for one of the top jobs at the white house. Donald trump has named Reince Priebus his chief of staff. Hes currently the Republican Party chairman. Priebus grew up in kenosha and graduated from uwwhitewater. Later he practiced law here in milwaukee. Choosing priebus could be a sign that trump wants to work with establishment republicans. Priebus worked to reunite the gop after the president ial primary caused some deep divisions. Counselor. That decision is leading to some backlash because of Steve Bannons history with the conservative site breitbart. Bannon served as campaign ceo for trump. Before he joined the campaign, Breitbart News
Protocals in a book about 1850. So it allowed me to have that play with time. And to put different historical events in conversation with each other. So, it never occurred to me to play it straight. If i played it straight it would be totally different book and not as interesting to me as a writer. Thank you. Your book was very powerful. My question is did you know when you started writing the book how the end, particularly her mother was going to happen . Sure. There is a linear story of the book that is cora. There are short buy graph call sections mable, caesar, ridgeway the slave catcher. You do women really well. And i guess, i have a structure in different states, definitely plotted out. Seems like characters were auditioning for their biographical sections, so i would bring out who we get after the North Carolina section should martin or ethel get their section . Ethel got it. Figure out where to move, different sections around. So about 2 3 of the way through, i decided i would
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