Authors at Great American Book Festival This Year! Meet, Cheryl Carpinello

Cheryl Carpinello is an author, retired high school English teacher, and a Colorado native. Since retiring from teaching, she’s been able to devote her time to writing, family, and traveling. Although she may be away from teaching, she is still a teacher at heart and especially enjoys meeting with kids and talking with them about reading and writing. Cheryl hopes that through her Tales & Legends from the Ancient & Medieval Worlds she can inspire young readers and others to read more.


Meet Cheryl Carpinello

and other authors at

Great American Book Festival

Saturday, May 11, 2019

Main Street Square

Rapid City, South Dakota



For More Information including Event Schedules Visit GABfest.info

Check out who will be at Great American Book Festival this year! Meet Author, Kristen Cathey

Kristen Cathey was raised in Rapid City, South Dakota, where she still lives with her husband, son, and two dogs. Growing up near the Black Hills, she spent her time hiking, camping and reading herself to sleep with fictional books, lost in her own imagination

Meet Kristen Cathey
and other authors at
Great American Book Festival
Saturday, May 11, 2019
Main Street Square
Rapid City, South Dakota

For More Information including Event Schedules Visit GABfest.info

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Check out who will be at Great American Book Festival this year! Meet Author, Tiffany Brooks

Tiffany Brooks lives in San Francisco with her family and bunch of rescue pets, who luckily don’t mind being featured on her Instagram. The best thing about living on the west coast means she can find out what happens on Game of Thrones three hours ahead of air time. That, plus not having winter weather, means she’ll never move back east, although that doesn’t stop her New England family from asking when she’ll be moving “back home” to New York or Connecticut.

Meet Tiffany Brooks
and other authors at
Great American Book Festival
Saturday, May 11, 2019
Main Street Square
Rapid City, South Dakota

For More Information including Event Schedules Visit GABfest.info

Check out who will be at Great American Book Festival this year! Meet Author, Caytlyn Brooke

Caytlyn is from the southern tier of New York where she lives with her husband Daniel, and her two wonderful children Jack and Joanna. She has been writing for several years now and her stories explore the darker side of fantasy. When she’s not writing, Caytlyn enjoys reading in the sunshine and playing hide and go seek with her kids. Wired is her second novel to win a Literary Classics Book Award.

Meet Caytlyn Brooke
and other authors at
Great American Book Festival 
Saturday, May 11, 2019
Main Street Square
Rapid City, South Dakota


For Event Schedule & More Information Visit GABfest.info

Check out who will be at Great American Book Festival this year! Meet Author, Jacob M. Appel

Jacob M. Appel is the author of three literary novels including Millard Salter’s Last Day (Simon & Schuster / Gallery, 2017), seven short story collections, an essay collection, a cozy mystery, a thriller and a volume of poems. He currently teaches at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. More at www.jacobmappel.com

Meet Jacob M. Appel
and other authors at 
Great American Book Festival 
Saturday, May 11, 2019
Main Street Square 
Rapid City, South Dakota

For Event Schedule & More Information Visit GABfest.info

Many Thanks to the Generous Sponsors Who Support GABfest!

The Great American Book Festival is FREE* and open to the public.  This dynamic two-day event includes the GABfest Writers' Conference, GABfest Lit Walk, and Great American Book Festival.
*Registration required for fee-based Agent Pitch Sessions  

All events take place in downtown Rapid City, SD on May 10th and 11th, 2019. 

For more information visit GABfest.info



And without further ado... our generous sponsors

*Free with the exception of Agent Pitch Sessions which are fee-based.

GABfest now in preparation for the 2019 Great American Book Festival

Sure, it's a year away, but time flies when you're having fun.  It takes a village... and countless hours to put together an event of this magnitude. So we're ramping up now in preparation for this outstanding event created in celebration of the written word. Once again, Great American Book Festival will be coming to downtown Rapid City May 9th, 10th and 11th, 2019.

GABfest Writers' Conference offers a full day of events to be held on Friday, May 10th, 2019 at the Rapid City Public Library.  These events are free and open to the public.  Be watching for a complete schedule in the coming months.  

 



The Great American Book Festival, to be held at Rapid City's Main Street Square, will be held on Saturday, May 11th, 2019 and is a family-friendly free public event. 

The GABfest Lit Walk will be returning in 2019, and is slated to be held the 

evening of  Thursday, May 9th at various downtown Rapid City Locations. 

Brought to the Rapid City community by Literary Classics, an organization which has been hosting award-winning authors from around the globe at various book festivals across the country since 2010, Literary Classics moved their annual awards program to Rapid City, South Dakota in 2017.  Great American Book Festival is a world-class book festival.  Free and open to the public, The Great American Book Festival will be held in conjunction with seminars, speaking venues, and the Literary Classics book awards.

GABfest is currently accepting Speaker Proposals as well as Sponsorships applications.  Within the coming weeks, we will also be accepting Author and Vendor applications.   Be watching for updates at GABfest.info!