Reading Between the Wines: Literacy, Wine and Authors...what more can you ask for?

Some of you may or may not have caught one of my earlier posts about this fabulous event that I have become involved with this year. But it is exciting enough to mention it again. After all, we are book bloggers, are we not? And what do we care about more than literacy?

The Adult Literacy League of Orlando hosts an annual fund-raising event in April called "Reading Between the Wines", where there's ample food and vino, of course. Also featured is a silent auction that includes author-signed books, trips, wine baskets, restaurant certificates, etc.

There are two guest authors as well. This year, our guest authors include Gerald Posner, an award-winning author of investigative non-fiction, and Connie May Fowler, whom you MAY have heard about once or twice here on my blog. Did you know that Connie's newest novel "How Clarissa Burden Learned to Fly", released in early April, was chosen by SIBA as an Okra Pick this year? This means that it was one of twelve new southern books that bookstores want to handsell (Saving Cee Cee Honeycutt was chosen as well). I've read Clarissa, and it blew me away. Words cannot even express how excited I will be to meet Connie in person.

Where do I come in? I was asked to collect as many author-signed books as possible for the silent auction. When I first put out the word, I was stunned by the outpouring of help from book bloggers, giving up their personal copies, and authors alike. I am still collecting books for the auction, and will continue to do so until mid-March. If there is anyone out there that can get their hands on anything signed, please let me know!

The event will be held on Friday, April 9th at 6pm at the Downtown Marriott. Tickets are $100 per person. Sponsorships are available as well. For more information, click here. I realize most of you don't live anywhere close to Orlando, but if you are passing through, or want to escape the snow, come on down!