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The 2008 Book & Author Fair Date is Saturday, NOVEMBER 15, 2008 in Ashland, Oregon. This year's event breaks an annual tradition. We are NO LONGER on the weekend before Thanksgiving. Instead, we are the "weekend before the weekend before Thanksgiving!" - Remember Saturday, November, 15th, 2008. Doors open to the public at 10:00 a.m. and close at 4:30 p.m. sharp!
Another 1st - A New Location! This year we will be located in the famous, historical Ashland Springs Hotel in downtown Ashland, Oregon, which is located at 212 E. Main Street. The event will be held in their Ballroom and Conservatory on the 2nd Floor. Please see the FAQ page of our website for directions, parking, room access, and every other event detail you might want to know.
How to Receive Info & Registration information - We will be making updates and registration information (including fees) in August 2008. To receive our announcements, you MUST be a member of our Yahoo Group, which is called: bookandauthorfair .
To do so, go to www.yahoo.com , click on Groups and perform a search for: bookandauthorfair . Once you've opened that, follow the Yahoo provided instructions for signing up as a member of our group. (NOTE: To join any Yahoo group you must have a Yahoo ID, and their system will walk you through that. Please do not query Book Fair organizers with Yahoo questions). See below for more detailed directions.
If you've already signed up (perhaps last year?) and have not changed your email address, you don't have to sign up again. (When in doubt, sign in and see if Yahoo has you registered - and that your email address is correct. (Fair coordinators are not responsible for tracking down email addresses)
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About the Southern Oregon Book & Author Fair. This annual Book & Author Fair is the perfect holiday opportunity for Northwest authors to proudly display and sell their books, meet readers, and gab with other local authors. Afterall, this is the traditional kickoff period when readers are beginning their holiday gift shopping for books, BOOKS, and m-o-r-e BOOKS!
The How-Tos of our Book & Author Fair for authors:
Author Space at the Fair. There are two authors per table, each pre-paying a registration fee for one-half of a 6 ft. long table space (the hotel provides a table cloth on each table). The hotel management is also supplying us another room on the same floor where they will set up coffee and chairs, so authors can have a place to take a break from the crowd.)
All authors registering for the Fair (and any others interested receiving updates) MUST also sign up at our Yahoo Group (bookandauthorfair) to receive emailed event updates. Details follow:
Details about HOW-TO sign up for our Yahoo group. You must first have a Yahoo ID If you don't, there will be a place to register on the Yahoo pages for a Yahoo Id :
- Go to www.yahoo.com
- Click on Groups
- In the "Find Yahoo Group" box, type: bookandauthorfair
- Click "Join This Group" and fill in all Yahoo required info.
- After you've registered for our group, the bookandauthorfair, an email will notify us of your interest in joining the email list, and we have to manually hit "approve" (thus saving us from - or at least reducing - the amount of junk Spam registration if your registration information seems legitimate. Please do write something about your books/why you're interested so we know your registration fits)
- You then receive a confirming registration email.
If you are not internet savvy, and if you are unable to figure out the Yahoo registration process, please ask a friend for assistance. The small cadre of volunteer organizers will be focusing on event organizational details and are unavailable to answer computer user questions).
This Yahoo Group announcement system benefits the organizing three ways:
First, it is a time saver for organizers, because WE don't have to sign up people onto an email list -- YOU are doing your own sign up.
Second, as explained earlier, this group system cuts down on SPAM subscribers.
Third, it is presently set only to Send announcements from the organizer address, reducing the potential for a flood of "Replies" whose questions have proven in past years to be already answered either on the website or on the Yahoo bookandauthorfair Group site.
We welcome the public - our
Enjoy the world of books? The 2008 Southern Oregon Book and Author Fair offers you books galore in a wide variety of genres, including Mystery, Romance, History, Travel, Spirituality, Childrens, Regional, Poetry, Memoirs and more.
Free Admission and a perfect time for finding a winter read as well as doing holiday shopping. Why not organize an outing of friends and relatives and peruse the Fair? Authors will be on-hand to sell and autograph their books personally. You'll be able to purchase books for your own enjoyment plus select books for holiday gifting (Autographed books make a truly personalized gift!)
Purchases are made by cash or check only directly from the individual author, so there's no standing in a long line at a final check-out booth.
If you or friends are coming in from out of town, you can also utilize the special hotel rate we're arranging through the Ashland Springs Hotel. The details and password for that will be announced on this site before October 2008.
Each year we bring in a Featured Author. Our criteria for selecting this published writer is that (a) they are a Northwest author; (b) their published books are well-known and popular (whether nationally or in their genre); (c) and/or their books have received rewards and recognitions.
We'll announce the 2008 Featured Author as soon as it is all confirmed. Check your newspapers regularly, as well as this site, for updates.
The Book Fair is being held in Ashland, Oregon at Southern Oregon University. The campus
We have arranged a special Book & Author Fair hotel room group rate of $79.00 plus tax for a room on Friday, November 14, 2008 at the fabulous and historic Ashland Springs Hotel (ASH) in the heart of Ashland. A limited number of rooms have been reserved at this rate to make travel more convenient for those coming from a distance -- or those simply wanting to enjoy a night at the ASH. When you stay at the Ashland Springs Hotel, you also receive free overnight parking in the hotel parking lot as well as a free buffet - style breakfast .
The hotel is located at 212 East Main Street, Ashland, Oregon 97520. Call them at
541-488-1700 to make reservations. Be sure to mention the Southern Oregon Book & Author Fair at the time you book in order to receive the discounted rate.
(Note: authors attending the event on Saturday cannot park at the hotel, but in the city parking structure to the rear and side of the ASH at a rate we're told fluctuates between $1.00 to $3.00 during the daytime).
Directions to the Book FairFor driving directions to the site (once it is announced), you can use on-line services such as http://www.randmcnally.com/ or www.mapquest.com .
We'We're always seeking sponsors; that is, companies or individuals who have a product or
Our 2008 flyer will be designed soon. Authors and readers can download and distribute a Fair flyer in either Word or PDF format. Please help us promote this affair by hanging flyers at coffee houses, markets, schools, libraries, kiosks, store window-fronts, etc. Just click on either of the links that will be placed below when they are ready :
the 2007 pdf file link is: http://cfbutton.com/2007bookfair.pdf (do not print these for 2008. Listed here only as reference)
and the 2007 MS Word doc link is: http://cfbutton.com/2007bookfair.doc (do not print these for 2008. Listed here only as reference)
Also:
We will be soliciting sponsors before the event. Please support them. They will be listed on our Information Page once we've arranged their services and/or discounts. Put a smile on their faces by letting them know you're coming in to thank them for supporting the Southern Oregon Book & Author Fair.
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