{"id":1840,"date":"2014-12-09T14:31:17","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T19:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/?p=1840"},"modified":"2016-01-08T15:39:05","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T20:39:05","slug":"basking-in-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/basking-in-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Basking In Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Miami Dade College\u2019s Wolfson Campus recently hosted Miami\u2019s 31st annual Miami Book Fair International; from Nov 16th to Nov 23rd. For those not familiar with the event, it\u2019s for families as much as it is readers. From author readings along with Q&amp;A\u2019s to food trucks and face painting, there was something for everyone going on at the Book Fair.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The most exciting for yours truly was the Festival of Authors, which kicks off the weeklong event. Having had the opportunity to sit in on Patricia Cornwell was enlightening, her books have inspired such shows as <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NCIS<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with their use of medical examining techniques as the forefront for her novels as medical\/crime fiction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Following Cornwell was the most anticipated author session<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the mother of gothic fiction\/fantasy<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anne Rice. Her assistants held a small costume contest prior to the evening\u2019s events, hosted through Twitter, in which many of the fans dressed up as various vampires. The contest winners, Andrea VanDerPlaats and Kayla Easton had the most spectacular costumes, they were inspired by Luis and Lestat from Rice\u2019s novel <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Interview with a Vampire<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Their reward: to meet the author backstage and have a personal signing of their books. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More than 1,000 fans showed up that night to see Rice<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014who was a participant in the original MBFI in 1984, which was then called Books by the Bay. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After her session, many fans partook in a Q&amp;A session with the author, including myself. With my one question, I asked Rice why she originally published some of her books<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">such as the erotic novel <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">under the pseudonym A. N. Roquelaure. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI did it to be free,\u201d she replied. \u201cI couldn\u2019t be Anne Rice, people would have expected a certain kind of novel and I had to be anonymous. I also didn\u2019t want my father to know.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some other events that went on through the week included a session with The Biscayne Poet, Oscar Fuentes, who hung around The Swamp writing poetry for event goers. Lots of music could be heard around the block well into midnight with food vendors outside The Swamp. Each night of the week there were different authors talking about their published work as well as offering to sign copies of their books for fans. In the shadow of Wolfson campus plenty of tents held various self-published authors, artists, and book stores such as Books &amp; Books, TATE\u2019S Comics and Creature Entertainment Studios. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For those with small kids there was plenty of family friendly fun too, located at the Children\u2019s Alley, where this particular writer took the time to get her face painted as well. After all what\u2019s a fair without face paint?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miami Dade College\u2019s Wolfson Campus recently hosted Miami\u2019s 31st annual Miami Book Fair International; from Nov 16th to Nov 23rd. For those not familiar with the event, it\u2019s for families as much as it is readers. 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