There’s a local author book fair at the Owen Sound and North Grey Union Public Library this weekend.
It’s the first time the library is doing the event which is set to take place from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Friday the 18th and Saturday the 19th.
There will be over 40 authors in attendance.
The library says in a release, the fair will showcase a wide range of genres and give the public a chance to get to know the authors, buy their books, play their library Plinko game and enter to win prizes.
The library has over 600 items in its Local Author and Grey-Bruce collection.
They note, “In May of 2006, former Chief Librarian Andrew Armitage wrote about the many local writers ‘whose books are coming off the press at an ever-accelerating rate. They are novelists, poets, travel writers, authors of young adult and children’s books, cookbook writers, contributors to magazines, compilers of local lore, makers of memoirs and guidebooks, essayists, railways buffs, and historians. All of them have one thing in common – they are your neighbours.'”