The 2013 Sedona Book Festival

  
 
We are very pleased to announce that the Sedona Book Festival is back, after a year’s hiatus, and will be held at the Sedona campus of Yavapai College on Saturday, October 5.

And we are further pleased to announce that Anne Hillerman, daughter of legendary and beloved mystery author Tony Hillerman, will headline our event.

As in previous years, the festival will be an all-day event, featuring local and regional authors, publishers, organizations and others affiliated with books and reading. There will be author presentations throughout the day, culminating with Anne Hillerman in the afternoon.

Exhibitor information and registration will be available beginning June 1 through this web page. Check back for updates.

Tony Hillerman was the author of the very popular Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mystery novels and died in 2008. He won every award there was to win and was honored by the Navajo Nation for writing about their culture in a meaningful and respectful way.

Anne Hillerman, a successful non-fiction author in her own right, will be continuing the Leaphorn-Chee legacy with her first novel, Spider Woman’s Daughter, which will be released by HarperCollins on October 1 and will debut at the Sedona Book Festival just a few days later.

Together with husband/photographer Don Strel, Anne has recently had published, through the University of New Mexico Press, a reissue - with an introduction and new photographs – of her father’s book of non-fiction essays, The Great Taos Bank Robbery.

Anne is a director of Wordharvest Writers Workshops and the Tony Hillerman Writers Conference both of which she helped establish in 2001.

Thanks for your past support of the Sedona Book Festival. The 2013 edition promises to be the best yet. Look for more details in the months ahead.

Joe Neri
Founder & Director of the Sedona Book Festival
Co-Owner of The Well Red Coyote, Sedona, AZ