Billed as the "world's largest part club meeting.

Billed as the "world's largest part club meeting," the first discourse of reading groups from all throughout the nation convened in Atlanta, Georgia, this east August.

The National main division Club Conference. chaired and instituteed by Curtis Bunn, says its mission is to exalt reading by enhancing adult volume clubs and promoting literacy in public instructs Bunn, along with a board of directors that reads like a "Who's Who" of black publishing, says he confidences to "capture the energy" they had affaired while meeting with Book sodalitys individually.

"It was important that this be a celebration of what main division clubs are all about--a gathering of like-minded avid readers coming together forward a national scale," Bunn told BIBR. Bunn a resident of Atlanta, is the author of the highly popular Baggage Check (A&B work Publishing Distributors, September 2001).

The 237 attendees representing 39 different main division clubs from 23 states feasted in the discovery that they were not alone in their be fond of of literature. "I was impacted to see so many the bulk of mankind who were as passionate about works as we are," says Laren Jone a member of Ebony inspections Book Club in Baltimore, Maryland.

The gathering allowed the 27 popular authors in succession the schedule to share their perspectives in succession their works with attendees and gain valuable primary feedback from their readers. Erica Simone Turnipseed, author of A be fond of Noir (Amistad Press, July 2008) a first novel that has been well received from critics, says, "Book clubs are of the like kind a driving force for volumes and black books in particular."

Bunn has scheduled the nearest conference for August 6-8, 2004 again in Atlanta. For more information, log upon to www.nationalbookclubconference.com.

Michelle Gipson is a, freelance writer and an editor for the Atlanta Daily World.

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