Interesting story in the Carmel Pine Cone about Jim and Cindy McGillen, a semi-retired TV couple that spent more than $320,000 to host this weekend’s first-ever Carmel Authors and Ideas Festival.
They lined up a collection of top authors to appear. Tickets are $500 each.
“No offense to Toledo, but I was not asking people to come to Toledo, I was asking them to come to Carmel,” says Jim McGillen.
[tip from Ghost Word]
In SoCal: The annual Santa Barbara Book and Author Festival is this Friday and Saturday … and the West Hollywood Book Fair is Sunday. Both of these events are free.
Meet the authors of the California Authors Directory. Visit the directory to discover writers like Christina Meldrum, a Bay Area attorney whose book Madapple was just released this month. “In debut novelist Christina Meldrum's mesmerizing literary mystery, 
You can shop online from your local independent booksellers. 