Meet authors \;Rebecca McKinnon\, Craig Kingsman\, and Rick Bennett&nb sp\;as they pitch their books in a fun "Speed Date with a Book" for mat. Q&\;A will follow the book pitches. (Learn more about each author below in our Author Bios section.)
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\;Author book signing and book sales information:< /strong> A book signing will follow this event. Each author at this event will handle their own book sales.
\n\;Registration: Registration for this event is not required\, however\, if you regis ter you will receive an event reminder via e-mail\, and if you opt-in to a text message\, also a text reminder.
\n\;Access inform ation: If you would like to attend via Zoom\, please register on Zoom using this link: Br igham City Library Book Festival Events.
\nCredits &\ ; Partnerships: Part of the Brigham City Library Book Festival: C elebrating Books\, Ideas\, and Imagination.
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This event is made possible in Partnership with Utah Humanities as part of t he annual Utah Humanities Book Festival.
\nF or other Utah Humanities Book Festival programs and events around the stat e visit the Utah Humanities website to view the Festival calendar.
\n\nAuthor Bio: \;Rebecca McKinnon enjoys p laying with her imaginary friends and introducing them to others through h er writing. She dreams of living in the middle of nowhere\, but has been u nable to find an acceptable location that wouldn&rsquo\;t require crossing an ocean.
\nAuthor Bio:&nb sp\;Craig Kingsman writes about murder because committing it woul d be a real bummer for the victim. He grew up in a Utah Mormon family and spent time every summer on his grandparent&rsquo\;s dairy farm in a very s mall town in southern Idaho. This provided him the ideas for his Zane Gray son Mysteries series &mdash\; family\, small rural town\, and religious th emes. The first book in the series\, Murder Comes Home\, was released in F ebruary\, 2026 from Twisted Dagger Press. He is currently working on the n ext book in the series.
\nCraig supports the writer community by spe aking at conferences and writing groups. He is a member of Sisters in Crim e\, Private Eye Writers of America\, and Utah Mystery Writers. He lives in the Wasatch mountains of Northern Utah with his wife and two cats.
\n< h4>Author: Rick Bennett\nAuthor Bio: \;In the blockbuster biography of California&rsquo\;s richest man&mdash\; The Diff erence Between God and Larry Ellison (Morrow\, 1997)&mdash\; Rick Bennett is credited as the advertising genius whose one-man ad agency took Oracle to its first billion-dollar sales year. \;
\nRick Bennett&rsquo\ ;s ads took Oracle from $15 million to over $1 billion in sales in 6 years \, and he created Salesforce.com pre-IPO advertising. He specializes in gu errilla warfare
\nMathematician and inventor whose Hagoth Voice Stre ss Analyzer made the front page of every U.S. Sunday newspaper on November 7\, 1976\, with his high-tech analysis of the Ford/Carter presidential de bates\, Rick Bennett has been covered by everybody from Business Week to T he Wall Street Journal. \; As a guest on ABC&rsquo\;s Good Morning Ame rica\, both NBC&rsquo\;s Today and Tomorrow with Tom Snyder shows\, PBS&rs quo\;s McNeil-Lehrer Report and on the syndicated Mike Douglas Show\, his irreverence toward prominent political institutions has entertained millio ns. \;
\nGoaded and sponsored by his friend\, the late science f iction author Frank Herbert (who wrote the Dune series)\, Bennett sold his electronics company in 1978 and ran for the U.S. Congress. \; Losing narrowly\, he went on to Massachusetts where he helped manage the state&rs quo\;s tax-limitation initiative campaign. \; He hired ad genius Tony Schwartz -- who created the famous Daisy ad that destroyed Barry Goldwater &rsquo\;s presidential campaign -- and the Massachusetts initiative won by a landslide. \; Convinced by his friend and mentor Schwartz that &ldq uo\;One good ad can do more to improve the world than all the politicians placed end to end\,&rdquo\; Bennett changed careers in 1979 and became a h igh-tech advertising hired gun.
\nBennett&rsquo\;s 3 published novel s are Destroying Angel\, Daddy&rsquo\;s Little Felons\, and The Last Will &\; Testament of Harley and His Dog. He also published a novella\, Tabe rnacle Choir Aliens. Hardcopies of all these books will be freely availabl e at the October 13th Brigham City Library &ldquo\;speed dating with autho rs&rdquo\; meeting. For those who can&rsquo\;t attend in person\, all thes e books will be free of charge in Kindle format at Amazon.com on October 1 4th.
\nRick Bennett lives with his wife (of 60 years) Rita in Brigha m City\, Utah.
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