On the Road Again: Alabama Book Festival

For the second straight weekend, I’m off to a city I’ve never visited before for a literary event—this time around, it’s the Alabama Book Festival in Montgomery, where I’ll be taking part in a panel about the publishing industry and what current circumstances and looming developments hold in store for authors. (I’ll be joined by publicist Julie Schoerke, radio journalist Stephen Usery, and novelist Susan Gregg Gilmore, the last of whom I met last year at Virginia’s Festival of the Book.)

It’s shaping up to be a pretty fun day; my friends Kathy Patrick and Karen Spears Zacharias will also be on hand, as well as some authors I’ve been interested in for a while, including Elise Blackwell, Ace Atkins, and Daniel Wallace, and big-name writers like Pearl Cleage, Rick Bragg, and Robert Hicks. And that’s just for starters. If any of you reading this are in the neighborhood, come on down—did I mention it’s free?

15 April 2010 | events |