Tis the season of book fairs and book festivals. They occur throughout the U.S. and beyond during fair weather—spring, summer, fall. Look for book festivals in your region or in areas you will be visiting this year. Here’s a site listing around 240 book festivals throughout the U.S. and even outside in more exotic places such as Spain, Canada, Japan and Africa.
http://www.loc.gov/loc/cfbook/bookfair.html
Here are a few of the listings from this site:
Alabama Tale-Tellin’ Festival/October
Selma, AL
http://www.taletellin.selmaalabama.com
Amelia Island Book Festival/September-October
Fernandina Beach, FL
phone: 904-261-5845
http://www.bookisland.org
Autumn Book Festival/Fall
Fostoria, OH
http://www.autumnbookfestival.bravehost.com
Delaware Book Festival/November
Dover, DE
http://www.debookfestival.lib.de.us
Detroit Story League Storytelling Festival/September
Livonia, MI
phone: 734-761-5118
Forest Storytelling Festival/Fall
Port Angeles, WA
phone: 360-417-5031
http://www.dancingleaves.com/storypeople/index.html
Guadalajara International Book Fair/November-December
Guadalajara, Mexico
http://www.fil.com/mx
Illinois Authors Book Fair/November
Springfield, IL
phone: 217-558-2065
Louisiana Book Festival/October
Baton Rouge, LA
phone: 225-219-9503
http://www.louisianabookfestival.org
Montana Festival of the Book/September
Missoula, MT
phone: 406-243-6022 / fax: 406-243-4836
http://www.bookfest-mt.org
To learn how to work a book festival so it works for you, read my article on this subject. Here’s the link.
http://www.matilijapress.com/articles/promo_bookFestival.htm