Join us for seasonal appetizers, drinks, and literary fun in support and celebration of the Bucks County Book Festival!
This fundraising event will feature conversations with prominent authors, bookish raffles, and more as we aim to raise funds to bring the Bucks County Book Festival back to the region in May 2025.
A Taste of Book Fest
October 24, 2024
6pm - 8pm
The Inn at Fox Briar Farm
300 Carousel Ln, Doylestown, PA 18902
Tickets: $100+fees/each (includes light refreshments)
Can't attend? Please consider making a donation of any size.
Your continued generosity helps to support the Bucks County Book Festival's mission to celebrate literacy, spark imagination, and build community by connecting authors, readers, and book lovers throughout our region.
All proceeds from this event will directly support the mission of the Bucks County Book Festival.
A Taste of Book Fest: Confirmed Authors
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John Vercher
Author, Devil Is Fine (Macmillan)
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John Vercher is an Artist-in-Residence at Monmouth University, and was the inaugural Wilma Dykeman writer-in-residence at the University of North Carolina, Asheville. His debut novel, Three-Fifths, was named one of the best books of the year by the Chicago Tribune and Booklist and was nominated for the Edgar and Strand Magazine Critics’ Awards for Best First Novel. His second novel, After the Lights Go Out, called “shrewd and explosive” by The New York Times, was named a Best Book of Summer 2022 by BookRiot and Publishers Weekly, and named a Booklist Editor’s Choice Best Book of 2022. He lives in the Philadelphia region and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the Mountainview Master of Fine Arts program.
ACCOLADES:
IndieNext Pick
An NPR Book of the Day
TIME Magazine - 24 New Books You Need to Read This Summer
LA Times - 10 books to add to your reading list in June
The Root - Books by Black Authors We Can't Wait to Read
ABOUT DEVIL IS FINE: Reeling from the sudden death of his teenage son, our narrator receives a letter from an attorney: he has just inherited a plot of land from his estranged grandfather. He travels to a beach town several hours south of his home with the intention of immediately selling the land. But what lies beneath the dirt is much more than he can process in the throes of grief. As a biracial Black man struggling with the many facets of his identity, he’s now the owner of a former plantation. Blurring the lines between real and imagined, past and present, tragedy and humor, Devil is Fine is a brilliantly crafted dissection of the legacies we leave behind and those we inherit.
Chuck Wendig
Author, Black River Orchard
Chuck Wendig is the New York Times bestselling author of Wanderers, The Book of Accidents, Wayward, and more than two dozen other books for adults and young adults. A finalist for the Astounding Award and an alumnus of the Sundance Screenwriters Lab, he has also written for comics, games, film, and television.
He’s known for his popular blog, terribleminds, and books about writing such as Damn Fine Story.
He lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, with his family.
ABOUT BLACK RIVER ORCHARD: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A small town is transformed when seven strange trees begin bearing magical apples in this masterpiece of horror from the author of Wanderers and The Book of Accidents.
“This masterful outing should continue to earn Wendig comparisons to Stephen King.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
LOCUS AWARD FINALIST • AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
It’s autumn in the town of Harrow, but something besides the season is changing there.
Because in that town there is an orchard, and in that orchard, seven most unusual trees. And from those trees grows a new sort of apple: strange, beautiful, with skin so red it’s nearly black.
Take a bite of one of these apples, and you will desire only to devour another. And another. You will become stronger. More vital. More yourself, you will believe. But then your appetite for the apples and their peculiar gifts will keep growing—and become darker.
This is what happens when the townsfolk discover the secret of the orchard. Soon it seems that everyone is consumed by an obsession with the magic of the apples . . . and what’s the harm, if it is making them all happier, more confident, more powerful?
Even if something else is buried in the orchard besides the seeds of these extraordinary trees: a bloody history whose roots reach back to the very origins of the town.
But now the leaves are falling. The days grow darker. It’s harvest time, and the town will soon reap what it has sown.
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