CBAN

CBAN
Our Book Fair at the Thompson Center

WHO WE ARE

We are a talented group of Black Chicago Authors who have banded together to form a network to highlight our work. Our goal is to bring our novels and literary publications to the forefront for the reading public.


We are dedicated to being a Chicago Renaissance for both urban literature and fiction/non-fiction in general.


From romance to comedy; children to fantasy; history and culture to inspirational and religious; we know that we can fulfill whatever form of literary works your mind desires.








Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Kankakee Authors Fair

Hello,


It’s finally that time of year to begin thinking about the Kankakee Public Library’s annual Author Fair. The event will take place on Saturday, April 10th from 10am-2pm on the 4th floor of the library.

This event is free to authors who would like to participate. Each author will be provided with a table to display their books, chairs and a boxed lunch. Authors are responsible for bring their own books and cash to make change. We will be offering events for patrons throughout the day to help draw interest.

I will be able to accommodate 45-50 authors so I will be doing this on a first come, first serve basis.

If you would like to attend I am asking several things of you:

1. Please confirm that you would like to attend on this day.

2. Let me know exactly how you want your name to appear in the advertisements. Any titles, abbreviations, or hyphens?

3. Let me know if you have any special seating requests. Such as who you would like to sit next to or any extra chairs, etc.

4. Please provide me with a list of books that you have written and a 1-5 sentence biography of yourself that you would like to be printed in a program to be distributed on the day of the event.

In the next several weeks I will be working on advertisement for the Author Fair. When I finish the flyer I will be forwarding a .jpg version to your email so you can distribute as you see fit. We send press releases out to all the local papers and radio stations as well as hang the flyers in local businesses. This year we will have 55-60 authors in attendance so it is going to be impossible to put everyone’s names on the flyers but all names will be included in the advertisement on our website.

You are welcome to forward this information on to other writers.

Thank you and I look forward to seeing you all soon.

Vicki

Vicki Stankewicz
Adult Services Supervisor
Kankakee Public Library
201 East Merchant Street
Kankakee, IL 60901
815/939-4564

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

CHICAGO BLACK AUTHOR'S NETWORK AT THOMPSON CENTER

Thompson Center * 100 W Randolph

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17 , 2010
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2010
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2010

9 am until 5 pm