I know you love book festivals. We usually have to wait months in between them, but not this weekend in the Baltimore/DC area. It’s book festival madness!

Three great festivals are going on at once, all within the Baltimore/DC region. Of course, the IndieBookMan crew will be representin’ at the AuthorsBookshop booth at [...]

You cannot love books, and not love this:
This Is Where We Live from 4th Estate on Vimeo.

Well, here is one way to get yourself noticed…
Amazon and Penguin have announced that they will sponsor a second Breakthrough Novel Award.
From Publisher’s Weekly:
Amazon and Penguin will sponsor a second annual Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. The competition will launch on February 2, 2009. Between then and February 8, writers with an unpublished English-language novel [...]