Festival. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] first up steve vogel the author of through the perilous fight talking about his book at the 2014 gaithersburg book festival. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] please direct your attention up there and for those in the back if you would like to move forward you are also welcome to do so if you would like. Welcome to the fifth annual gaithersburg book festival. My name is garrett peck and i am a lover of local history and beer and trains. Actually we will wait for just a second. One of the wonderful things about being in gaithersburg we are in old an Old Town Square and theres a real town that is here and the railroad station is right behind us which is a wonderful Historic Place to go to. Gaithersburg is a vibrant diversity that celebrates and supports the arts and humanities. We are pleased to bring you this festival and event thanks to the generous support of our sponsors and volunteers so please visit the
It is for people my age disorienting. For people, my children and grandchildrens age is the only america they have known and the most natural thing in the world. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. The wonderful thing about the gulf coast, is so underappreciate it and that is good because it gives us a lot to write about. If we were in new York San Francisco or chicago those cities and places are all so well known and new york is the literary capital but on the gulf coast we tend to think about from texas to the Florida Panhandle there really is instability, we have a similar environment, similar trees, long leaf pines, palm trees, sandy soil, salt in the air. The gulf of mexico and nourishes and supplies us with wonderful seafood, estuaries, wonderfully rich and tradition and culture. In and around these things for hundreds of years, it is an extraordinarily rich subject to take and of course along comes the oil spill in 2010 where all of a sudden we are in ce
Justin torres. She was previously based in washington, d. C. At island press, and she has an mfa in greater writing from the university of northern maryland. Next to her is susan call. Susan is the events and programs director at politics prose. Shes the author of four novels including acceptance. Her fifth novel will be published in july by sarah cryington weeks finish cryington books. Next to her is the social media director for the washington independent review of books, a web site run by a dedicated team of volunteers that publishes new reviews every weekday and covers all things bookrelated. Please check it out at www. Wirobooks. Com. She also works as a copy editor for the hill newspaper and can be found reading and cheering on various sports teams at night. Last but not heath is beth ann patrick. Her book reviews appeared in publications such as the Washington Post, people and o magazine. Shes blogged about books for places like publishers weekly, aol and barnes noble. Com. Beth
Your Electronic Devices for the audience and for our friends at home. Todays panel is called connecting authors and readers. Well be discussing how publishers, writers, the media and booksellers help readers discover new books and authors. Without further ado, ill introduce our panel and then let them tell you a little bit about what they do. To my right is tarin rhodeer, the associate director of [inaudible] she manages a bostonbased team. Her best selling authors include paul tuft, temple grandin
Well, Andrew Albany is a publishers weekly. Thanks for the update on this case. My pleasure. Book tv will continue to bring you publishing news and new author programs. You can watch all of our programs sunday on cspan two and online at book tv dot org. And welcome to miami and book tv. Live coverage of the 2022 Miami Book Fair. Youll hear from authors on topics ranging from Foreign Policy to medicine and race in america. This is book tvs live coverage of the Miami Book Fair. And another. Day. Thank you. Steve. So, you. Got. Better. Good afternoon. Good afternoon, everyone. Im nyala harrison, an attorney at the Law Firm Greenberg Traurig here in miami. And its really my esteemed pleasure to welcome you to the 39th Miami Book Fair. Were grateful to the Miamidade College family and the hundreds of volunteers that make this all possible. And for the support of the green family foundation, the batchelor foundation, the meredith and diasporic foundation, aarp, greater miami and the beaches