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2009 Book Tour

Nipomo Public Library 918 W Tefft Street Nipomo, CA 93444 Saturday, September 12, 2009 9am to 3pm Parking Lot

 

 

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Below you will find a list of places where book fairs and tradeshows are being held. To meet some of your favorite authors, click on one of the links below. You may find them in your area.

For authors' looking for an event, click on the link below for guidelines and signups.

 

West Hollywood Book Fair, a medium-sized fair, large enough to draw crowds, small enough to give participating authors attention. It's frequented by Hollywood types so if you're yearning for the outside chance of having a producer or director see your book, this may be the place. Your programming contact is Corey Roskin. Fall.

 

LA Times/UCLA Festival of Books, Contact Jeff Cibull. To apply as a presenter contact Aida Maestas. This s a huge fair. You'll get lost if you don't plan but the possibilities are endless.  Please see the Authors' Coalition pages on this site for more details on this fair and how you can participate.

San Bernardino Book Fair at San Bernardino Valley College. This fair is very small; a great opportunity for new authors.

 Great Salt Lake Book Fair. A small fair that focuses on fiction. Programs by Jean Cheney.

Hollywood Book Festival is a very small book fair directed by Frances Powell. Reach her at hollywoodbkfest2@earthlink.net for details. Phone is 310 850 9910. Their theme is "spotlighting books worthy of further consideration from the film, TV and game industries."

 National Book Festival on the mall in Washington DC is sponsored by the Library of Congress. Opportunities for presenters other than very famous or extremely well-reviewed or connected authors is limited. Excellent sponsors. It has room to grow.

 

During the second full weekend of October each year, more than 200 authors converge in Nashville to celebrate books with book-lovers at the Southern Festival of Books. It is held on the Legislative Plaza that surrounds the Capitol building in downtown Nashville. It is like a huge carnival of books.  Speakers (including me in 2007) present in meeting rooms at various locations around the plaza.

 

 

 

Others Book Fairs (ones I know about but haven't attended or participated in):

Amelia Island Book Festival (Amelia Island, FL), Fall

Atlanta Journal-Constitution Decatur Book Festival, The, (Atlanta, GA) Fall  

Austin Jewish Community Book Fair, The (Austin, TX), Late fall

Austin Book Festival (Austin, TX), Late fall.

Baltimore Book Festival (Baltimore, MD), Fall

Brooklyn Book Festival (Brooklyn, NY), Fall

Buckeyes Book Fair (Wooster, OH). Late fall.

Central Coast Book and Author Festival (San Luis Obispo, CA.) Fall

Collingswood Book Festival (Collingswood, NJ), Fall

Connecticut Children's Book Fair (Storrs, CN), Fall 

Delaware Book Festival (Dover, DE), Late fall

Fall for the Book Literary Festival (Fairfax, VA), Fall

Frankfurt Book Fair (Germany)

Georgia Literary Festival,(Blue Ridge, GA), Fall

Indianapolis Bookfest, Dolores Thornton, founder.

Kentucky Book Fair  (Frankfort, KY), Late fall 

Montana Festival of the Book, (Missoula, MT)

Multicultural Children's Book Festival (Washington, DC), Late fall

Miami Book Fair International, (Miami, Florida)

Nebraska Book Festival, (Lincoln, NE) 

New Yorker Festival (New York City), Fall

Southern California Book Sellers, 

Texas Book Festival.

Tokyo International Book Fair,

West Coast Author Premiere (Ventura County), Summer  

West Texas Book & Music Festival, (Abilene, TX)

Wisconsin Book Festival.

Miami Book Fair (Florida).

Spring Book Show (Atlanta, GA)

 

Latino Book & Family Festivals, The (Houston, TX), Fall 

Litquake (San Francisco, CA), Fall

London Book Fair 

Louisiana Book Festival (Baton Rouge, LA), Late fall.

Miami Book Fair International (Miami, FL), Late fall

Midwest Literary Festival (Aurora, IL), Fall  

New Orleans Bookfair (New Orleans, LA), Late fall

Novello Festival of Reading (Charlotte, NC), Fall

Orange County Children's Book Festival (Costa Mesa, CA), Fall

Bologna Children's Book Fair

Philadelphia Book Festival

Red Dirt Book Festival   (Shawnee, Oklahoma) 

Rochester Children's Book Festival (Rochester, NY), Late fall 

Sarasota Reading Festival (Sarasota, FL), Late fall

Santa Barbara Book & Author Festival (Santa Barbara, CA), Fall

South Dakota Festival of Books (Deadwood, SD), Fall 

St. Petersburg Times Festival of Reading (St. Petersburg, FL), Fall

Twin Cities Book Festival (Minneapolis, MN), Fall 

Vegas Valley Book Festival (Las Vegas, NV), Fall

West Virginia Book Festival (Charleston, W. VA), Fall

Wisconsin Book Festival (Madison, WI), Fall

Wordstock (Portland, OR), Late fall

Wyoming Book Festival, (Cheyenne, WY.)
 

More:

For a list of genre fiction conventions go to 
http://www.locusmag.com/Conventions.html or http://homepage.ntlworld.com/wilf.james/i_conlist.htm

For a long list of national and international book fairs (albeit with no personal comments) go to the Library of Congress list at
http://www.loc.gov/loc/cfbook/bookfair.html.

 

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