Yes, it’s Summer. Break out the sunscreen, umbrellas, and that special book. Elissa Matthews shares her take on beach reading, one of our favorite summertime book-lover traditions. Elissa Matthews shares her take on beach reading, one of our favorite summertime book-lover traditions.
In keeping with the summer theme, our featured author Beth Sherman is very much in tune with beach reads in this issue. Beth wrote five books in her Jersey Shore Mystery series. Now, she takes her writing on a new path. Learn more on Page 3.
In this issue of Book Lovers Dispatch, we also talk about what’s going on with bookstores. Despite the unprecedented growth of Amazon, local independent bookstores are making a surprising resurgence. Learn more about it.
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The second book event is the New Providence Book Festival, to be held on Saturday, September 18, 2021 on the grounds of the Salt Box Museum in New Providence, NJ. This event will include 16 authors signing their books, a children’s reading hours, several author talks. For more details, go to 
J.R. Bale will speak on book marketing on Friday, April 23rd at 12:30 PM for Middlesex College’s Aspiring Authors Club. His presentation via Zoom will cover marketing considerations when creating a book, building an authors platform and cooperative marketing with fellow authors.
J.R. Bale will speak on book marketing on Saturday, November 9th, 11AM at the Edison Library. His presentation will cover marketing considerations when creating a book, building an authors platform and cooperative marketing with fellow authors. The Edison Library is located at 340 Plainfield Avenue, Edison, NJ.
J.R. Bale addressed a group of 75 writers in his afternoon keynote presentation at the annual Women Who Write conference in Madison, NJ on Saturday, September 21, 2019.
In his presentation, he covered marketing considerations when creating one’s book, building an author platform and how to engage in cooperative marketing.