{"id":79497,"date":"2025-08-20T06:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T06:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/79497\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T06:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T06:24:07","slug":"local-author-talks-back-for-a-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/79497\/","title":{"rendered":"Local author talks back for a sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketingderby.co.uk\/bondholders\/derby-book-festival\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Derby Book Festival<\/a> has confirmed that a popular series of talks by local authors will return this autumn.<\/p>\n<p>The festival has once again teamed up with the Society of Authors, Derby Libraries and Derbyshire Library Service to organise a second series of talks by local authors in libraries across the city and county.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"567\" height=\"369\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/MeettheAuthorPic.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50872\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>It follows the success of the first tour in June and July.<\/p>\n<p>The talks and workshops will cover a broad range of topics, both fiction and non-fiction.<\/p>\n<p>Sian Hoyle, director of Derby Book Festival, said: \u201cWe are delighted about the success of the first author tour and have received great feedback from both library staff, audiences and the authors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur aim is to support local authors on their writing journeys, enabling them to promote and sell their books, bring them to a wider audience and gain feedback from readers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere will be a small charge for the event, \u00a0which is given to the author, who will also be selling copies of their books at their events.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Further details of the talks are available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.derbybookfestival.co.uk\/news\/local-authors-to-tour-derby-derbyshire-libraries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">https:\/\/www.derbybookfestival.co.uk\/news\/local-authors-to-tour-derby-derbyshire-libraries<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To book tickets visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gigantic.com\/meet-your-local-author-tickets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">https:\/\/www.gigantic.com\/meet-your-local-author-tickets<\/a> or visit the library where the event is being held to book a place.<\/p>\n<p>    Related Articles&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Derby Book Festival has confirmed that a popular series of talks by local authors will return this autumn.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[457,40500,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-79497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-derby-book-festival","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}