Same Time Next Summer

Issue: June 2023

Michelle Gable and Kathie Bennett

Magic Time Literary Publicity represents award-winning, bestselling authors from around the country. An author needs a champion who’ll take the time to explore their work and embrace their vision.

Kathie Bennett does just that. She breathes in the writer’s essence, then breathes out their magic, channeling it straight into the hearts of readers.

When book-signings and presentations are set in perfect venues like libraries, universities, nonprofits, and professional/civic organizations, connections are welded, and history is made. It’s no wonder Kathie has rocketed her writers into national best-seller status.

Kathie is accustomed to cozy gathering spaces, particularly small-town libraries. In 1965, at age 11, she was visiting her grandmother in Florida’s panhandle – a tiny, idyllic, rural town named Blountstown.

Perhaps this is where the family’s literary magic began, for Kathie’s grandmother, along with her women’s club, was determined to turn the second floor of the Piggly Wiggly into a public library.

They built it. And they did come.

It was an almost sacred place where anybody inclined to read could borrow a bespoke book, its delights certain to resonate with its reader.

“This is what makes Hudson Library of Highlands and Albert Carlton-Cashiers Community Library primo places to launch authors and their books,” says Kathie. “The Plateau is a cultured wonderland, a publisher’s literary landscape loaded with lifelong readers and enthusiasts. Aside from being a joyous place to live, it has an extended summer season. It’s like a pot-of-Perfect boiled down to a reduction of all that’s right in the literary world.”

In addition to library settings, educational organizations like Center for Life Enrichment (with their Author Salon series) and hostings at local patron’s private residences offer open doors to evenings with a best-selling author. New York Times bestselling author John Cribb, an Abraham Lincoln scholar, will be the CLE presenter on June 14, discussing The Rail Splitter. Registration required.

Kathie says, “Annabel Monaghan, a top-selling writer, will visit the Highlands-Cashiers area for the first time while on national tour with Same Time Next Summer. We hope many of our other authors will adopt a same-time-next-summer schedule, unveiling their latest hardcover, summer-after-summer.

“We love our libraries, CLE, Old Edwards Inn venues, and Sky Valley Country Club luncheon series, which is open to the public, and we invite everyone on the Plateau to participate in this unforgettable summer Author Tour.”