If you are tweeting today, use the hashtag gbf, and we need your feedback. Surveys are available at the tent and on our web site. Complete a survey for a chance to win a 100 visa gift card. Im pleased to introduce author kristen green. Shell be signing books immediately after the presentation, and copies of her books are on sale in the politics prose tent, a great partner for us this year. A quick word about buying books. Even though this is a free event, it does help the book festival if you buy books. The more books we sell at our event, the more publishers are willing to send their authors here to the book festival. Purchasing books from politics prose does benefit the local economy. It supports local jobs, supports our book festival. So if you enjoy the program and youre in a position to do so, please consider buying the authors books here today. So let me introduce kristen. Kristen green is an author who grew up in farmville, virginia, and thats important because its important to
Anymore, and thats where as some of the other panelists were saying, the internet comes in, but really in terms of getting into collections you need those print reviews. I think we are i mean, we are looking at blogs as authoritative sites now. I mean, the whole thing is changing. Bloggers are writing for School Library journal now and vice versa. What counts as a professional book reviewer, i think the lines are blurring a little bit. And blogging, which used to be kind of like this thing that people did this their pajamas from home, is now becoming a really respected source of book reviews. But i think when youre trying to reach diverse audiences, a lot of times people get so many emails that they no longer open that email about a book or some item or some commodity to listening, to hearing. You can reach also diverse communities. I keep saying this over and over again, social, civic and Church Organizations are the heart of many communities. Youve got to go out to them. Do something
This month. Three or four books that i think particularly good. I wish i could take credit. And the Brilliant Communications director came up with this. No one is going to be interested in what i am reading. Surprisingly has become quite a bit. They like it. Interestingly, the kind of like to know what your thinking about. It is kind of refreshing. It actually reads a little class action. Thank you. It was fun. What are you reading this summer . Tell us what is on your Summer Reading list. Postage your Facebook Page or send us a name of. Her. You can watch panels and multicultural Book Publishing, the black Arts Movement, and more first, founder Max Rodriguez kicks off the festival the talk of the state of africanamerican literature. There is always that conversation of home for us. And we have an answer from. The theme of this years book fair is global. As we all are. And the book fair from this point forward will reflect that. We started with an event yesterday that Columbia Universi