So thank you for supporting book passage. We are an independent bookstore one of the few remaining independent bookstores. [applause] thank you. We are very proud of that fact. Thanks for coming to our location. We also have a beautiful store in the building in San Francisco if youve never been there. Its a beautiful store. Go in by a few books and go have dinner in the city. Its a wonderful way to spend your evening. Remember book passage is so much more than just a bookstore. We bring to you probably a thousand author readings every year if you can believe that. In addition we also have all kinds of classes, language classes, writing classes. We have a group simply of childrens classes and finally im proud to say we are going green. We have been introducing a paper newsletter which i know some of the received in the mail starting in march. We are going to do email only so if we dont have your email and you arent getting our email letters please sign up. You can register at all the re
[applause] hello everyone. By the this we will be behind the curtain. [laughter] welcome to the book event i am the executive director of the Writers League of texas the Largest Organization in texas helping writers of every stage of their career love the opportunity to talk to public authors about their most recent books and dig in a little bit more than we get to as often as we would like so we are learning more about what went into creating the book especially the books were talking about today there are so many interesting things that would be applicable to any writers. Who here writes but did not raise your hand . [laughter] we will make sure we get to that conversation as well. But i want to say quickly thank you we are so lucky to be here in austin with literary communities and i hope you will enjoy the conversation to bring your book up to be signed the best way to support writers is to buy their books. Yes. Finally i want to read her bio she will beat a little from the book an
[inaudible conversations] okay. All right. Hello. Are we on . Hi, guys. Welcome to sunday morning at the texas book festival. Does anybody know what time it is . And how awesome was that extra hour we all got this morning. Lets applaud the extra hours. Im going to officially welcome you to the 22nd annual book festival. Thank you for coming out to support the authors, the still and great literature. First off, please silence your cell phones. Ill silence my phone while you silence yours. Well have a book sinning after the session 0, so arm that both of the authors are going to go back to the booksigning tent and sign books, hopefully youll pick some up as the book people tent before that. When you buy book at the stifle, the festival, youre supporting the author, the festival, and the local independent book store. The mission is to support libraries in texas. And the reading rock Stars Program and to fund grants for libraries in texas. Your book purchase makes a difference and for the
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