Asheville Bookfest set for Saturday

Jason Sandford

Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.

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Asheville Bookfest, from Zuckerbook:

This is a free, community event highlighting regional publishers and authors. Organized by the Western North Carolina Publishers Alliance Asheville Bookfest seeks to draw attention to the vitality of the publishing industry in the mountains as well as the talent of the authors who live here.

The 2011 festival features 24 writers from the region including Blanca Mesías Miller of Peru and Bahia Abrams, whose novel The Other Half of My Soul tells the controversial love story between a Sephardic Jew and a Shi’ite Muslim. The festival features full schedules of children’s programs and talks by authors. In the evening, from 6-8, Doug Gibson, Director of E-Publishing at Grateful Steps, and Susan Lily of Barnes and Noble, will present a discussion of e-books, e-publishing and what these new phenomena mean for authors and the books we write and love to read. Evening event will take place at Grateful Steps Publishing House and Bookshop at 159 South Lexington in Downtown Asheville (just below the Orange Peel, in Lexington Station).

For more info: [email protected] or call Grateful Steps Publishing House and Bookshop at 828-277-0998. (Logo by Michele Scheve)

Saturday, Oct. 22, 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. at Reuter Terrace in Pack Square Park