Scenes from last weekend’s Virginia Festival of the Book, held in Charlottesville. I was in town to share whatever it is I know about how blogs inform today’s book consumers and the majesty of ’70s Hollywood, but I also got to hang out with a bunch of other writers.
Top: Little, Brown’s Shannon Byrne looks on as Michael Connelly signs books for fans after a Saturday luncheon; Lynn Isenberg models the umbrella created to promote her novel The Funeral Planner; Susan McBride and Laura Durham at the Saturday night reception, held at the home of the University of Virginia’s president.
Middle: River Jordan and Paul Witcover at the reception; N.M. Kelby takes a break from signing copies of Whale Season. Bottom: Susann Cokal and Ed Falco, two of the many authors published by Unbridled Books to appear at the festival.