Ryan Klee at Lenz Marketing forwards an announcement from the Decatur Book Festival, regarding the launch of a new event  that’s both outside the city limits and DBF weekend.  It’s being called “the festival’s latest expansion.”

The kick off event for this expansion will be the first DBF Book Club Bash at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 16 at the Marcus Jewish Community Center, 5342 Tilly Mill Rd., Dunwoody.

The evening is free and open to the public, but advance registration is required. Several hundred metro Atlanta book club members have already signed up to attend, and there is still room for more before capacity is reached, although space is going fast.

The Bash will include an authors panel of popular local authors talking about how they relate to book clubs and to fans in general: Emily Giffin (“Love the One You’re With”), Joshilyn Jackson (“The Girl Who Stopped Swimming”) and Susan Rebecca White (“Bound South”). There will also be discussion among book club leaders about what goes into making a good book club, and information from bookstores and libraries on how they can help book clubs. Refreshments will also be served.

In order to attend, you must be a member of a metro Atlanta book club, and you must register at this page on the Decatur Book Festival website: http://www.decaturbookfestival.com/Community/bookclubs.php