Book 'Em North Carolina: Buy a Book and Stop a Crook

Welcome to Book 'Em North Carolina!

NEXT EVENT: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2014
9:30 AM - 4:00 PM
WHERE: ROBESON COMMUNITY COLLEGE
LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!

Book 'Em North Carolina Writers Conference and Book Fair brings together
more than 75 authors, publishers and literary agents
who sell and sign their books
and participate in talks and panel discussions all day.

For information on our previous events, visit the 2013 or 2012 buttons in the left menu.

2014 National Sponsor

Our theme for the 2014
Book 'Em North Carolina Event is

The Evolving Face of Writing and Publishing

Headlining Book 'Em North Carolina 2014

New York Times bestselling authors
Haywood Smith
and
Bob Mayer

Haywood Smith is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Red Hat Club, The Red Hat Club Rides Again and Queen Bee of Mimosa as well as a number of wildly popular historical novels set in England and Scotland.

Her latest book, Out of Warranty, was released in January by St. Martins Press. As Haywood describes it:

If any of you have ever had to deal with health insurance claims, you'll love this one. It's a social satire about a widow with a rare health condition who falls apart physically ten years before Medicare and goes broke, so she decides she has to marry somebody for health insurance. Needless to say, her plan doesn't work out for her, so she ends up marrying someone totally inappropriate, and they live happily ever after as friends in separate rooms of her mold-remediated house. As with all my books, there will be chuckles aplenty as I send up the health insurance industry, the medical profession, and falling apart in middle age.

New York Times bestselling author Bob Mayer has over 50 books published. He has sold over five million books and is in demand as a team-building, life-change, and leadership speaker and consultant.

Bob graduated from West Point and served in the military as a Special Forces A-Team leader and a teacher at the JFK Special Warfare Center & School. He teaches novel writing and improving the author via his Write It Forward program.

He is the CEO of Cool Gus Publishing, which has grown to a seven figure business in just two years, and is one of the bestselling indie authors in the United States.

Special Keynote Speaker

Adam Cushman,
Red 14 Films
Los Angeles

Red 14 Films creates cinematic book trailers, also known as literary short films, for authors and publishers. No slideshows, still frames, or cheesy graphics. Their trailers are perfect for promoting your books, expanding your audience, and pitching books-to-film rights to Hollywood studios and production companies.

Past clients include (Anthony Swofford, author of Jarhead), Victoria Redel (author of Loverboy) and Stefan Kiesbye, (author of Your House is on Fire, Your Children All Gone). They are a company run by authors and filmmakers. Visit them at www.red14films.com to view some of their trailers, including Deborah Henry's The Whipping Club, starring Eric Roberts.

Special Presentation

from The Tar Heel Traveler

Scott Mason

Multi-Award Winning
Journalist and Reporter,
WRAL-TV

A man without arms from Chapel Hill who chainsaws trees with his feet; a 101-year-old woman from Southern Pines whose homemade snake oil cures every ailment; a Johnston County tinkerer whose floor-to-ceiling paper chain swallows half his living room; a Sunset Beach mailbox perched in a sand dune; and a Jackson County rock carved by a giant. These are stories Scott Mason has reported for WRAL-TV in Raleigh and which he's written about in his book, Tar Heel Traveler: Journeys Across North Carolina (Globe Pequot Press).

The book is a blend of oral history and memoir with a good dose of quirky humor. It takes its name from his feature series on WRAL. He is the TV reporter—the Tar Heel Traveler—who journeys across North Carolina profiling colorful characters and out-of-the-way places.

Readers will come to know people they’ve never met, travel places they’ve never visited, and learn things they didn’t know. His presentation includes film footage. You’ll laugh a lot along the way!

If you wish to be a featured author at our 2014 event,
download the registration form here.
If you are unable to download or use the Word document,
contact bookemnc@pmterrell.com.

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