Comments on: It’s Literally Wednesday: Ask the Book Festival Folks

By: NorthDecaturBooklover

NorthDecaturBooklover — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 02:44:42 +0000

Good heavens, DBF lists “Sci-Fi” in their genre list! Seriously, anyone who reads in the genre will use either “Speculative Fiction” “Science Fiction” or just “SF”. “Sci-Fi” is used by those who class the genre as trash. I grant you that DBF is not big on genre fiction (for me, genres of interest are SF including Fantasy, Romance, and Mystery–only the latter has must of a presence), but this is really a sign of failing to talk to anyone involved with this area of publishing.

While I’m on a roll, I continue to wonder why a better synergy doesn’t develop between Dragon*Con and DBF–there are often authors at D*C I’d love to hear speak, but I’m not often willing to deal with the D*C zoo. Is it DBF, D*C, or resistance from authors or publishers? Or, given what I see with “Sci-Fi”, does no one at DBF have the knowledge to ask more major authors to run out to Decatur for a panel? I can only recall one panel a couple of years ago which was mentioned as a D*C/DBF joint effort…hopefully I just missed some others.

By: MC Decatur

MC Decatur — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 21:37:46 +0000

I got one for you. Having a telephone conversation with Hal Needham who was at the Book Festival last year to promote his new book called Stuntman. Hal directed the Smokey and the Bandit movies and a lot of the action movies (featuring Burt Reynolds and others) at that time, but he was a stuntman before that and was the first person to break the sound barrier in a car. Chuck Yeager gave him props for that! Anyway, I’m just a volunteer who works for Daren and Terra and was trying to coordinate with Hal on what he needed for his presentation and he asked me to call him at home to talk about it. He’s a great character and even put his wife on to join our conversation where he was telling me about his book tour and background and other things he was up to. That’s the great thing about volunteering for these great Decatur events . . . you can stumble onto some memorable moments you’ll never forget.

By: MC Decatur

MC Decatur — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 21:16:56 +0000

Great story Daren. Reminds me of the movie scene of the remake of The Fugitive when the guy riding the train is sitting across from Harrison Ford and sees his picture on the front page of the newspaper. Better outcome with Kinky.

By: fifi

fifi — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 04:11:40 +0000

Why did you go and put 4 things I want to see all at the same time on Sunday afternoon ?

A good problem to have. Amazing to watch the growth of this event. Congratulations on a wonderful line up . Looking forward to the festival weekend. ( even if I can’t manage to see 4 things at once )

By: FM Fats

FM Fats — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 14:44:18 +0000

Mucous garcias. I wasn’t surprised that your story would be about the Kinkstah. At least his Peruvian Marching Powder days were behind him by then.