The Vegas Valley Book Festival was ranked 10th in a list of 25 book fairs and festivals deemed to be the best for readers, fans, publishers and authors to attend according to book publicist and president of Westwind Communications, Scott Lorenz. In his post on sellingbooks.com, Lorenz evinces the reasons why fairs and festivals are […]
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RESTLESS CITY is available at www.RestlessCity.com and will be available on Amazon and in local bookstores shortly. Both a print and eBook formats are being published. The book will debut at the Vegas Valley Book Festival with a reading by final author Vu Tran on Saturday, November 7 at 4:00 PM at the Historic Fifth Street School (on Fourth Street). Authors will be available to sign books.
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Brady cleared his throat, wondering who else was in on this scheme, or had been. Creamer? Fat Andy Sachman? Joseph Don Walker? Samuels, obviously, even though it had been just a hunch. This was way more than fake bills or fixed decks at a poker table. This was real money.
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October 22 Nevada’s Literary and Architectural History Celebrated at Morelli House Reception The Vegas Valley Book Festival celebrates “The Genius of Mark Twain” in a special literary program on Thursday, October 22, 7:00 pm in the auditorium of the Downtown Senior Services Center, 310 South 9th Street. This pre-festival event, co-sponsored by the Junior League […]
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Brady went to his closet and quickly picked up his surveillance bag, which held electronics equipment he used in his P.I. job, and hurried back out the door. In the covered parking area, he started the root beer-colored ’85 Eldorado, its interior reeking of cigarettes and the fine dust of neglect and fading memories.
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The Vegas Valley Book Festival (VVBF) created a book club project, “Readers’ Choice,” that invited local book clubs to recommend their favorite authors to present at the festival in November. About 10 book clubs responded and over 40 authors were recommended. The VVBF literary committee selected three authors based on book club suggestions: Indu Sundaresan, […]
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Of all the possible permutations and combinations, of the thousands of escape plans or suicide attempts or motion picture moves that could have released him from this horrible, fatal, impossible situation, the last one he expected was this…
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Seven local authors are collaborating to write a serial novel, Restless City, from June to October 2009, with each author writing one chapter to be released in sequence every three weeks. Chapter 1 is now available on the book festival’s website where H. Lee Barnes sets the stage with a gritty cast of Las Vegas […]
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November 4–8, 2009 As a celebration of the spoken word, this year’s book festival will offer an expansive program of poetry, from the sparse verse of America’s Poet Laureate and opening keynote speaker, Kay Ryan, to the impromptu haiku poems of Mayor Oscar Goodman and Dayvid Figler, who open First Friday, November 6, on the book […]
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