Columbus Book Festival: In Conversation with Paul Tremblay

Columbus Book Festival featuring Paul Tremblay

Saturday, July 11 at 10 a.m.
Main Library
Auditorium (1st floor)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Paul Tremblay is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of eight previous novels and two short fiction collections. Tremblay’s fiction blends razor edge tension with mordant wit in novels that are eerily unsettling.

Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep delivers a near future nightmare where tech dread meets dark comedy. A professional gamer remote controls a mostly dead guy across the country in this genre-bending horror/thriller exploring surveillance, identity, and the slippery line between absurdity and terror.

ABOUT THE MODERATOR

Born in the Caribbean, Tobias S. Buckell is a New York Times bestselling and World Fantasy Award winning author. His novels and almost one hundred stories have been translated into nineteen different languages. He has been nominated for the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, World Fantasy Award, and Astounding Award for Best New Science Fiction Author. He currently lives in Ohio.

HEADLINER SESSION TICKETS

• Due to limited space, tickets are required for each of the five headliner author talks.
• One ticket per person. Maximum room capacity is 250 people.
• Non-ticketed guests will be admitted five minutes prior to the start of the program only if seats are available.
• Eventbrite tickets will be scanned at entry. Print your ticket or have a mobile ticket ready to scan for speedy entry.
• Auditorium will be fully cleared between sessions.
• Be considerate: Don't reserve a seat if you don't need it. Cancel your ticket if you can't make it to the event so another reader can attend.

AUDITORIUM ENTRY & EXIT

Volunteers and Festival Staff will help keep orderly lines and assist guests with limited mobility. Everyone with a session ticket WILL BE SEATED if you arrive before 9:55 am.

• 9:00 a.m. | Lines for Paul's session can begin to form at the Auditorium entrance: one line will be for ticketed guests and one line will be for non-ticketed guests.
• 9:30 a.m. | Seating begins for ticketed guests.
• 9:55 a.m. | Seating begins for non-ticketed guests (only if empty seats are available)
• 10:00 a.m. | In Conversation with Paul Tremblay
• 11:00 a.m. | Session ends. Book signing for session attendees outside Auditorium. All guests must exit the Auditorium.

The Auditorium will hold back-to-back author sessions, and the area could get congested. Please be prepared to be patient in a space with multiple lines, book selling stations and a signing table.

BOOKS & SIGNING*

• Due to space and time restrictions, headlining authors will sign books only for the 250 attendees of their session within the 60-minute time limit.

• Headliner author signings take place immediately after their session just outside the Auditorium.

• Books may be purchased at the festival or brought from your personal collection. Limit of two items.

• Paul’s books and Tobias' books will be available for sale at the Auditorium before and after the session. The Official Festival Bookstore will be selling headliner titles all weekend in Main Library's 2nd floor.

Book signing etiquette:

• Keep the line moving to ensure all readers have an opportunity to have their books signed within the allotted time.
• Open your books to the title page and place them in the correct direction on the signing table

• Limit of two items for signing/personalization.

• No posed photos, please.

*SIGNING DETAILS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE.

COLUMBUS BOOK FESTIVAL

The Columbus Book Festival is a free, two-day literary event on July 11 -12 at downtown Columbus's Main Library and Topiary Park.

This Author Talk is just one of 70+ sessions on the schedule of author events for the weekend. All sessions and programs are free to attend. Come and enjoy the entire festival!