Bonding Thru Books Festival - Each night 8-10pm EST, life coaches, community leaders, published authors and industry insiders will talk about their motivation for supporting our literary legacy, how they became modern day griots, how authorship has affected their place in society, and how social media has expanded their voice and reach. FEATURED SPEAKERS AND BOOKCLUBS Shelia M. Goss Entertainment Blogger, screenwriter and author Terri J. Haynes Amazon Vine Clean Fiction Book Reviewer Karyn Davis Girl Fridayz Book Club Shalonda McGhee Lift a Sistah Up Book Club SiStar Tea ARC Book Club Inc. Toni Bonita Robinson Prominent Women of Color (PWOC) Antionette Gates Founder of the Mississippi Magnolias Book Club Kim Knight President Reading Between the Lines Bookclub Jeanette W. Hill Founder and executive director of JWHill Productions Tina Mcdade Divas & Diamonds Book Club Anamaria Akins Creator of Urban Divaz Reviewz La Sheera Lee Read You Later Radio Host Founder of The Round Table Readers Literary Book Club L. D. Wells and Dr. Francene Breakfield Co-Editors: An Anthology of Sisterhood Parker J. Cole Host of The Write Stuff Radio Show M.J. Kane Founder of the blog This Writer's Life… Lisa Borders Muhammad Founder of African American Book Expo, Norfolk, Virginia Joey Pinkney Blogger and Reviewer for JoeyPinkney.com