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”
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Bad News At 5th Annual Palm Beach Book Festival
Author, journalist and editor, Ben Bradlee Jr. is the man who delivered some really bad news at the Fifth Annual Palm Beach Book Festival last weekend.
It’s not usually a platform for the delivery of bad news — or actually any kind of news other than news of the publication of great, readable books. So, I wasn’t expecting the bombshell Ben delivered. I was there because Ben is a hero of mine. Continue reading “Bad News At 5th Annual Palm Beach Book Festival”
9 Reasons To Still Love Florida After the Midterms
Things looked so bleak in Florida the morning after the midterms, I wondered whether I would ever again feel joyful about visiting the state. As of the writing of this blog, recounts, even manual recounts, look likely. But the frontrunners as of yesterday morning continued to be Rick Scott for Senate, and Ron DeSantis, the Trump mini-me, for Florida governor. Continue reading “9 Reasons To Still Love Florida After the Midterms”
3 Bestselling Authors Tell How Reading is #1 Key To Writing Success
Whether you’re an avid reader or an aspiring author, if you get the chance to meet and listen to several bestselling authors all gathered in the same room, you go, don’t you? You want to know how they made it to the bestseller charts; or maybe more modestly you want to know how they wrote their successful novels; where they get their ideas, how they find the time to finish a novel? I know I always leap at such an opportunity. As I did a couple of weeks ago. Continue reading “3 Bestselling Authors Tell How Reading is #1 Key To Writing Success”
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”