Celebrate These Upcoming Honorary Book Days

 

Every single day is worthy of celebrating the importance, joy, and power of books, but only certain specific dates recognize such things. Below are several days coming up for the rest of the year that should be honored and embraced by all of us, especially in the year of America’s milestone 250th birthday. 

August 9th — Book Lover’s Day

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_Lovers_Day

September 1st — Library Card Sign-Up Month

https://www.ala.org/conferencesevents/celebrationweeks/card   

September 6th — National Read A Book Day

https://nationaldaycalendar.com/celebrations/national-read-a-book-day-september-6  

September 8th — International Literacy Day

https://www.unesco.org/en/days/literacy 

October 4th — Beginning of Banned Books Week

https://bannedbooksweek.org/ 

October 18th — Start of National Friends of Libraries Week

https://www.ala.org/united/events_conferences/folweek 

October 25th — Beginning of Read Aloud To A Child Week

https://readtothem.org/racw/?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=20702102826&gbraid=0AAAAAqWFjvuIHOMyr13xV3Ki9QVWAljx1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw3qLSBhDaARIsAFTiVh6Hm87Xqz-vGIISYSFHwJ6B0eAcBe0UblcvQSV_lx4yHLL8ABW95AsaAm79EALw_wcB

November 1st — National Family Literacy Day

https://nationaldaycalendar.com/celebrations/national-family-literacy-day-november-1

November 9th — Children’s Book Week starts 

https://everychildareader.net/cbw/

Is The News Media Dying?

One third of all printed newspapers, like an endangered species, disappeared from 2005 to 2025, according to a new book, Empire of Ink: The Printers, Rogues, and Radicals Who Invented the American Newspaper. We went from 9000 newspapers informing, shaping, helping, and entertaining the country to 6000. Of the remaining papers, many are skeletons of what they used to be. Some no longer publish daily or as often as they used to. Many editions are smaller and more of the editorial content is outsourced from national entities like a newswire or the Internet. Independent journalism is dying and the nation is not better for it.

 "Art is to console those who are broken by life." --Vincent van Gogh  

"The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them." --Anton Pavlovich Chekhov  

"Your expectations, more than anything else in life, determine your reality." --Best-Selling Author John C. Maxwell

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About Brian Feinblum

This award-winning blog has generated over 6,750,000 page views. With 5,600+ posts over the past 15 years, it was named one of the best book marketing blogs by BookBaby http://blog.bookbaby.com/2013/09/the-best-book-marketing-blogs  and recognized by Feedspot in 2026, 2021 and 2018 as one of the top book marketing blogs. It was also named by www.WinningWriters.com as a "best resource.”  Copyright 2026.

 

For the past three decades, Brian Feinblum has helped thousands of authors. He formed his own book publicity firm in 2020. Prior to that, for 21 years as the head of marketing for the nation’s largest book publicity firm, and as the director of publicity at two independent presses, Brian has worked with many first-time, self-published, authors of all genres, right along with best-selling authors and celebrities such as: Dr. Ruth, Mark Victor Hansen, Joseph Finder, Katherine Spurway, Neil Rackham, Harvey Mackay, Ken Blanchard, Stephen Covey, Warren Adler, Cindy Adams, Todd Duncan, Susan RoAne, John C. Maxwell, Jeff Foxworthy, Seth Godin, and Henry Winkler.

 

His writings are often featured in The Writer and IBPA’s The Independent (https://pubspot.ibpa-online.org/article/whats-needed-to-promote-a-book-successfully) and (https://pubspot.ibpa-online.org/article/10-things-my-dog-taught-me-about-marketing-books). He was recently interviewed by the IBPA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0BhO9m8jbs

 

He hosted a panel on book publicity for Book Expo America several years ago, and has spoken at ASJA, three times at BookCAMP, Independent Book Publishers Association, Sarah Lawrence College, Nonfiction Writers Association, Cape Cod Writers Association, Willamette (Portland) Writers Association, APEX, five times at Morgan James Publishing Red Carpet, and Connecticut Authors and Publishers Association. He served as a judge for the 2024 IBPA Book Awards.

 

His letters-to-the-editor have been published in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, New York Post, NY Daily News, Newsday, The Journal News (Westchester) and The Washington Post. His first published book was The Florida Homeowner, Condo, & Co-Op Association Handbook.  It was featured in The Sun Sentinel and Miami Herald.

 

Born and raised in Brooklyn, he now resides in Westchester with his wife, two kids, and Ferris, a black lab rescue dog, and El Chapo, a pug rescue dog.

 

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