Try as hard as you can, but it’s almost impossible to have a fun time anywhere these days. Last Saturday should have been a super fun day at the Palm Beach Book Festival. In my opinion, the Book Festival is the best thing going in Palm Beach during the season. Continue reading “Authors Entertained At The Palm Beach Book Festival But Addressed the Tough Issues of The Day”
Tag: Lois Cahall
Blurbs : Praise For Fool Her Once From Other Authors
One of the most difficult tasks for an author is to go out into the world and ask other authors for blurbs.
Those are the quotes of praise found on the front and back covers of books as well as on an author’s Amazon or Goodreads or BookBub page. Continue reading “Blurbs : Praise For Fool Her Once From Other Authors”
2 Biggest, Bestselling Authors Tell What It Takes To Be One
I recently had the thrill of listening to two of the most prolific, biggest, bestselling authors in the world talk about what it takes to become one of them. Continue reading “2 Biggest, Bestselling Authors Tell What It Takes To Be One”
Dan Rather At Palm Beach Book Festival: (Most) Leaders Are Readers
You may have heard the expression “readers are leaders.” It happens to be a favorite one of my husband’s. Well, at this year’s Palm Beach Book Festival, author and journalist, Dan Rather kinda stood that saying on its head.
Commenting on the many world leaders he has met during his long career as a journalist and news anchor, he says from the stage of the Palm Beach County Convention Center: “Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.” Continue reading “Dan Rather At Palm Beach Book Festival: (Most) Leaders Are Readers”
Meeting James Patterson at The Palm Beach Book Festival
It’s Squib Saturday. Time to share the best, most interesting (or most entertaining, or most outrageous) tidbit of information I’ve gleaned from all the stuff I’ve read –or done. This week: I Discover The World’s Bestselling Author is Also A Super Nice Guy.
How do you introduce an author who has sold more than 300 million copies of his thrillers worldwide to a standing- room- only audience at a book festival? This is how Lois Cahall, founder and organizer of the Palm Beach Book Festival, did it last week at the Harriet Himmel Theatre, City Place, West Palm Beach. She told the audience that at one point while organizing the third annual book festival, she realized she had booked only non-fiction writers to appear on the festival panels. “So, I went out to look around for someone who writes fiction,” she said, ” and I found this guy.” Continue reading “Meeting James Patterson at The Palm Beach Book Festival”