Author Gordon Korman is coming to the Fox Cities! Gordon will be speaking at the Neenah Public Library on Thursday, February 2, 5:00pm. Teachers, parents, librarians & interested students welcome! Apple Blossom Books will sell copies of Gordon's books. There will be an announcement of authors currently scheduled to appear at the Fox Cities Book Festival in April. Be sure to join us for this special event. Free and open to the public. Free refreshments. http://gordonkorman.com/

Check out Kara Patterson's Word of Art Column in the Post Crescent where she interviews members of the Fox Cities Book Festival's Author Committee. The Committee has announced that New York Times bestseller Carol Higgins Clark, author of the Regan Reilly mystery series, will be coming to the Fox Cities for the 2012 Festival. Check out the authors page to see the authors who are confirmed so far!

The Author Committee has been hard at work for months now, lining up fabulous authors for the 2012 Festival. Now that a few are confirmed, you might want to take a look and start reading!

Check out the 2012 Authors page to see who's coming, then visit often as we continue to post additional authors.

Thank you to everyone who voted for the Fox Cities Book Festival during the Community Foundation's 25 for 25 Charity Challenge! Unfortunately, we didn't win a grant, but we congratulate the well-deserving organizations who did. Please keep the Festival in mind as you select organizations to make charitable donations to before year end. More information about how to donate is available here.

Thanks to everyone who voted for the Fox Cities Book Festival during the Community Foundation's 25 for 25 Charity Challenge! The results will be announced on November 22nd. Check the Foundation's website to see who the winners turn out to be.

We appreciate your support!

The Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region will continue the celebration of its 25th anniversary with a 25 for 25 Charity Challenge this fall. The community will be invited to vote online on the Foundation's website October 16-25 to determine 25 nonprofit organizations helping people in the Fox Valley that will benefit from five $25,000 endowment gifts and 25 grants of $2,500.

We are happy to report that the Fox Cities Book Festival is one of the organizations for which you can vote!

Anyone with a valid email address will be able to vote once per day for their favorite organization (vote for the Book Festival, please!).

Read the press release and visit the Community Foundation's website for more details. Remember to vote for the Festival every day October 16-25!

Mark your calendars for the 5th Annual Fox Cities Book Festival scheduled for April 11-18, 2012! Plans are well underway for next year's Festival, and we look forward to having another fabulous line-up of incredible authors for you. 

Enjoy the following comments from a few of our 2011 authors:

• "The Fox Valley Book Festival is the best organized, the most literary, attracts the most enthusiastic audiences, and is the most fun of any book festival I have ever attended."
  Jean Feraca
   
• "I thought you guys did a great job in assembling such a strong line-up, organizing events that represented local and national writers, juggling the scheduling complexities, and engaging the community. My experience was great -- I felt quite coddled and comfortable. The festival people were both kind and organized; the audiences attentive and enthusiastic. The scope and vitality of the Fox Cities Book Festival proves that reading is alive and well in America."
  Annie Barrows
   
• "A terrific event for authors -- wonderfully run, well-attended, and with some of the brightest and most engaged readers around. I had a blast."
  Gregg Hurwitz

Thanks for helping us make the 2011 Festival so wonderful, for reading and sharing, and learning and growing!

Enjoy clips from Lesley Kagen's presentation at the 2011 Festival!

More clips are available on YouTube.

Enjoy clips from Frank Anderson's presentation during the Book Festival!

• Part 2
• Part 3

Due to circumstances beyond our control, Will Allen's presentation during the Festival started late. If you had to leave and miss the program, here's your chance to see what you missed. Big thanks go to Willems Marketing for having someone available to record this presentation.