BOOKMANIA! 2024
The Martin County Library System and The Library Foundation of Martin County, Inc. presented an in-person BookMania! festival at Jensen Beach High School for March 2, 2024.
Jensen Beach High School2875 NW Goldenrod Rd.
Jensen Beach, FL 34957
This event was live streamed on the Library's Facebook Page and YouTube Channel.
Authors will participate in one of multiple panel discussions featuring emerging and prominent writers. Titles by guest authors will be available from the library’s regular, Martin’s Most Wanted, and downloadable collections. The event continues the successful evolution of “the most prestigious literary event on the Treasure Coast,” first taking place in 1995.
BookMania! has hosted over 450 emerging and best-selling authors since its inception, attracting participants from all over the United States. Here is our author selection criteria.
2024 SCHEDULE
Visit the pop-up Barnes & Noble book sale in the JBHS Nutrition Center throughout the day to purchase books for the authors to sign.
9:00am | Welcome from Sue Whittington
9:15 to 10:00am | Sea Stories - Fact & Fiction, moderated by Peggy Chittum
(followed by book signing)
- Kevin Sites, author of The Ocean Above Me
- Earl Swift, author of Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island
Visit the Barnes & Noble Café in the courtyard to purchase drinks and snacks. Be sure to finish them before the next panel.
10:30 to 11:45am | Thriller & Suspense, moderated by Amanda Brack
(followed by book signing)
- Darby Kane, author of The Engagement Party
- Armando Lucas Correa, author of The Silence in Her Eyes
- Megan Collins, author of Thicker Than Water
11:45am to 12:45pm | Lunch from the Martin County Sheriff's Grill Team
Choose either a burger, veggie burger, or hotdog with a side of chips and drink. $5 cash purchase
12:45 to 1:45pm | Love, Friendship, and Ever Afters, moderated by Linda Weiksnar
(followed by book signing)
- Kristy Woodson Harvey, author of The Summer of Songbirds
- Melissa Rivero, author of Flores and Miss Paula
- Annabel Monaghan, author of Same Time Next Summer
2:15 to 3:15pm | Historical Fiction, moderated by Paula Hundt
(followed by book signing)
- Talia Carner, author of The Boy with the Star Tattoo
- Katherine Reay, author of The Berlin Letters
- Patti Callahan Henry, author of The Secret Book of Flora Lea