There’ll be something for everyone at Big Orange Book Festival, Oct. 11-13

The lineup for the 2013 festival is starting to come together and updates are being posted regularly at the
Big Orange Book Festival
website. The three-day event, co-sponsored by the
Los Angeles Times
, kicks off Friday evening with a screening of a family-friendly film that had its start as a book. Then two days of author presentations, panel discussions and readings follow.

Among the authors is
Marcia Clark
, who led several high-profile prosecutions during her legal career, including the O.J. Simpson murder trial. Clark has written three crime novels in a series featuring Special Trials Prosecutor Rachel Knight, as well as two short story thrillers with Rachel at the center of the plot. The first in the series,
Guilt by Association
, was a national bestseller and garnered starred reviews from Publisher’s Weekly, Booklist and Kirkus Reviews.

A few of the other announced authors include:

• David Iserson, who works as a film and television writer and most recently wrote for Fox’s New Girl. Iverson just published his first novel, Firecracker, the quirky story of a teen who happily lives in a rocket ship on her parent’s estate but gets her world rattled when she has to go off to public school.
• Humorist Kevin Fagan, best known as the creator of Drabble, a nationally syndicated cartoon strip debuting in March of 1979. Fagan has eight published Drabble books to his credit. A new book, Wally’s Weinerful World of Golf is the first and only book about golf from a dog’s perspective.
• Derek Taylor Kent, an author, screenwriter, and performer based out of Los Angeles. His new book series, SCARY SCHOOL (written under pen name Derek the Ghost), recently won an award for Funniest Chapter Book of 2011 by Children’s Literature Network, and has become one of the most popular new series for middle-readers.

Parking and admission to festival events will be free. However, seating at all events will be on a first-come, first-served basis. Volunteer, vendor and exhibitor information can be found at the
Big Orange Book Festival website
.