Dear Book Friend,
Because you follow this newsletter (thank you), I'm sure you must love books. What's more, I bet you'd really like to hear authors speak on the topics of their books.
Whether you're a writer or not, and if you're just someone who loves books, I wanted to let you know that Lake Drive Books will be an exhibitor at the Festival of Faith and Writing at Calvin University, April 16–18 in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
This biennial celebration of books and authors is known to draw around 2,000 attendees. My friend and publishing colleague Mick Silva calls the festival "as much a reader's conferece as a writer's conference."
Notable authors this year include Robin Wall Kimmerer (pictured above, nature writing and Indigenous wisdom), Ross Gay (poetry and essays on joy and everyday life), and Barbara Brown Taylor (spiritual memoir and theology), alongside many others working across fiction, journalism, and memoir.
For those who are able to attend, you'll have your pick of a variety of up close and personal talks as well as major plenary sessions across a spectrum of faith and writing. Of course, most of you seeing this likely can't make it, so I strongly recommend you check out the Festival of Faith and Writing website for some reading suggestions. You can also learn about past speakers, where there are videos of their talks.
If you are indeed able to come, let us know, and we'd love to see you in the exhibit hall at the Prince Center on the campus of Calvin, where you'll see plenty of other publishers and their books. This year, I'll be joined by:
Julia Rocchi, author of Amen? Questions for a God I Hope Exists
Stephanie Eagleson, Lake Drive Books editor
Ivy Zeller, freelance editor and agent at Hyponymous Literary
Mick Silva, freelance editor.
We'll have books for sale (and there will also be a cool bookstore for key festival speakers), but the main thing we're hoping for is to have great conversations, make real-life connections, and celebrate books!
David Morris, Publisher, Lake Drive Books
Photo of Robin Wall Kimmerer by Indiana Humanities.
