Summerville Book Festival Fun to Take Part

 

Summerville's Hutchinson Square has become the town's busy hub of activity. So it was the ideal locale for the 2nd Annual Summerville Book Festival held on Saturday, Feb. 28. 

I joined some 30 other authors for the event organized by Main Street Reads, a bookstore located directly across from the square. 

Shari Stauch (center) owns Main Street Reads. A Chicago native, she has had quite an interesting life and family. Shari used to be a touring pool player and has written four books about the game. 

I probably would not have learned about the book festival had the Charleston Post and Courier not recently included the Summerville Journal Scene newspaper, which it owns, in the Wednesday paper we have delivered to our house. 

Shari and I met briefly a couple of years ago when I was a speaker at the Summerville Rotary Club. I remembered that after seeing an article she wrote about the upcoming book festival in the Summerville newspaper. 

I'm always eager for opportunities to sign and sell my books at such events. This festival required authors like me who wanted the chance to display outside like this to a pay a "booth" fee of $35 plus purchase a $90 business license from the town.

So I needed to make some sales to offset those expenses. And that I did, and then some. I had a very good day. It was a long one, from setting up by 10:30 to departure at 4. Many thanks to Alesia for helping with the setup and breakdown.