5th Annual
Amelia Book Island Festival
September 29 - October 2

Every year, the Amelia Book Island Festival introduces residents and visitors to an impressive array of talented writers from all genres. This year's festival, to be held Sept. 29 to Oct. 2, promises to be just as impressive, presenting writers from genres varying from suspense thrillers to mysteries to poetry. The authors will participate in panel discussions, book signings, workshops, luncheons and other festival events.

While some of the authors are traveling from as far as San Diego and San Antonio, the Amelia Island community is lucky enough to have several talented local authors featured in this year's festival: Terri Ridgell, Carol Beck, Nola Perez, Ron Kurtz and Maryalice LeDuc-Lenmark.

Headline authors for the 2005 Book Island Festival are David Liss and Susan Vreeland. Both authors are keynote speakers for the Lunch-with-Authors event on Saturday, October 1, and will participate in other events throughout the festival.

Liss is the author of three mystery novels set in early 18th century London: A Conspiracy of Paper, The Coffee Trader and A Spectacle of Corruption.

Vreeland has received sweeping praise for her lush and original novels about artists and the lives their paintings have touched. Her works include The Passion of Artemisia, Girl in Hyacinth Blue and The Forest Lover.

Other authors featured at the 2005 Amelia Book Island Festival include:

FICTION
• Ellyn Bache, women's fiction: The Activist's Daughter and Riggs Park
• Steve Berry, suspense thrillers: The Amber Room, The Romanov Prophecy and The Third Secret
• Brian Corrigan, general fiction: The Poet of Loch Ness
• D.H. Eaton, general fiction: The Osceola Community Club
• Wayne Greenhaw, fiction and nonfiction: The Spider's Web, The Long Journey and A Thunder of Angels
• Nicole M. Kelby, general fiction: In the Company of Angels and Whale Season
• Terry Lewis, mystery: Privileged Information and Conflict of Interest
• Charles Martin, general fiction: The Dead Don't Dance and Wrapped in Rain
• Susan Carol McCarthy, general fiction: True Fires and Lay that Trumpet in Our Hands
• Bob Morris, action mysteries: Jamaica Me Dead and Bahamarama
• Terri Ridgell, romantic suspense: Operation: Stiletto and When Opportunity Knocks
• Nancy Robson, general fiction: Course of the Waterman
• Carl T. Smith, mystery: Lowcountry Boil
• James Swain, mystery: Sucker Bet, Loaded Dice and Mr. Lucky
• Kathryn Wall, mystery: Judas Island, Perdition House and Resurrection Road

NONFICTION
• Carol Beck: Nourishing Your Daughter and Full and Fulfilled
• Bill Belleville: River of Lakes, Deep Cuba and The End of Sewell Road
• Rich Everitt: Falling Stars: Air Crashes that Filled Rock and Roll Heaven
• Ben Green: Before His Time: Untold Story of Harry T. Moore, Civil Rights Martyr
• Herb Hiller: Highway A1A: Florida at the Edge
• Quang X. Pham: A Sense of Duty: My Father, My American Journey
• Diane Roberts: Dream State, The Myth of Aunt Jemima and Faulkner and Southern Womanhood

David Liss and Susan Vreeland are the headline authors
for the 2005 Amelia Book Island Festival.
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POETRY
• Dorothy Fletcher: Zen Fishing & Other Southern Pleasures
• Teri Youmans Grimm: Dirt Eaters
• Nola Perez: In the Season of Tropical Depressions
• Elizabeth Thomas: If Red Could Talk

CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULT
• Valerie Allen: The Night Thief and Chicken Soup for the Kids' Soul
• Jan Atchley Bevan: Zachary Cooks Up Some Fun
• Frances and Hugh Keiser: Pelican Pete series
• Adrian Fogelin: The Big Nothing, Sister Spider Tells All and Crossing Jordan
• Ron Kurtz: Arfie on Amelia and Arfie Finds a Job
• Maryalice LeDuc-Lenmark,: Meet Mr. Muttley
• L.W. Lewis: Poodles, Tigers, Monsters and You
• Jim Moore: The All-Animal Band
• Pamela Bauer Mueller: Hello, Goodbye, I Love You, The Kiska Trilogy and Neptune's Honor
• Annie Laura Smith: The Legacy of Bletchley Park and Will Paris Burn?
• Lisa Wroble: Kids in Ancient Egypt and Kids in Colonial Times
• Betty Ann Wylie, oral story teller: Mother Goose CD

Amelia Book Island Festival attendees have the opportunity to meet authors and participate in discussions, workshops, luncheons and other socials. The festival is dedicated to promoting literacy, love of the written word and the community of writers and readers.

A complete schedule of Amelia Book Island Festival events is available online at www.bookisland.org.

For more information, e-mail the festival planners at info@bookisland.org or call the Amelia Book Island Festival hotline at (904) 491-8176.