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Welcome to the RANCHO MIRAGE WRITERS FESTIVAL!

We are celebrating year FIVE of this exciting Festival in 2018! This is where readers meet authors and authors get
to know their enthusiastic readers. We dedicate all that happens at this incredible gathering to you, our Angels and
our Readers.

The Rancho Mirage Writers Festival has a special energy level, driven by ideas and your enthusiasm for what will
feel like a pop-up university where the written word and those who write have brought us together in a most
appropriate venue — the Rancho Mirage Library and Observatory. The Festival starts fast and never lets up as our
individual presenters and panels are eager to share their words and their thoughts. The excitement of books.

In 2013 we began to design the Rancho Mirage Writers Festival. Our Steering Committee kept its objective
David Bryant Jamie Kabler
LIBRARY DIRECTOR FESTIVAL FOUNDER important and clear — to bring authors, their books, and our readers together in this beautiful resort city. In 2018
our mission remains the same, though the Festival has grown and gets even better this year.
The writers you read and the books that get us thinking and talking converge at the Festival to make January in the
Desert, not only key to our season, but a centerpiece of our cultural life.

The Festival is a celebration of the written word. The Festival lives in our award-winning Library. Recent investments
in the Library include:
Welcome • Windows in the John Steinbeck Room and the Jack London Room that can be darkened electronically making

for a better presenter/audience experience.
TO THE • The new production booth in the Steinbeck Room will give our readers and authors as well as videographers
even more professional programming quality.
Fifth Annual • Upgrades to lighting in the Steinbeck, London, Disney, and Didion Rooms will make for a better Festival.

Rancho Mirage We also added gifts to the broad Library community:
• The Rancho Mirage Writers Festival Book Club with six high quality sessions annually.
• The Rancho Mirage Writers Festival Writers Series bringing the star quality of major authors as they add the
Library to their book tours.
Writers • “Best Books Made Into Movies” — a program with a caché all its own.

The Rancho Mirage Writers Festival honors the value of books in our national tradition of sharing ideas and the
Festival freedom to express them. You have helped to build the “intellectual village” we will share for the next three days.

Thank you to our forty-five authors. We are delighted to offer you the opportunity to be with our one thousand
Angels and Readers.
Let the 2018 Rancho Mirage Writers Festival begin!

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