A few weekends ago I attended the second annual Savannah Book Festival. There were a number of repeat authors from last year but also enough new faces to make things interesting. Out of the three "authors" that I heard speak, my favorite would have to have been the fascinating Julia Reed and the engaging Tara Guerard. Both women fell under the "lifestyle" category of author. I put author in quotes only because Tara Guerard revealed that she actually didn't pen the book herself. Which at first made me wonder why on earth she was participating, but I promptly got over it and enjoyed what she had to say.
Apparently one of the authors I skipped (and now regret missing), Adam Davies, was a smashing success, not to mention quite the looker. I was informed that even though his lecture took place in one of the numerous "houses of the lord" that can be found in Savannah, he didn't hold back from discussing the secular subject matter of his novels. Davies was an editorial assistant at Random House and is now a professor at SCAD. His first novel, The Frog King, is being made into a movie directed by Darren Starr. He of Sex and the City and the defunct, but much beloved by me at least, Cashmere Mafia. His two other novels are Goodbye Lemon and Mine All Mine, both of which sound intriguing.
Cheers to another successful Savannah Book Festival.