🎉For Readers
Get ready for a fun-filled day of books, creativity, and community!
Join us at the Fall Book Festival 2025, hosted by Creative Slingers of Ink, featuring 30+ indie authors from a wide variety of genres. This is your chance to meet local writers, find new favorites, and enjoy a relaxed, book-loving atmosphere in a historic indoor venue.
Highlights include:
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🎟️ Free festival admission
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📚 Meet-and-greet with authors of all genres
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🎤 Live author readings throughout the day
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🧭 Passport to Reading game – visit author tables, get your passport stamped, and enter to win one of three book-filled prize boxes!
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💜 Book Drive for Greer Relief – Bring a new or gently used book to support local families in need
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🚚 Food trucks on-site – Grab a bite and make it a full day out!
Rachel Lavin – Body Love Advocate, Wellness Coach, & Author of The Doughnut Diaries 🍩💪📖
Empowering, vulnerable, and refreshingly real—Rachel Lavin shares her journey to body acceptance and self-love with honesty and heart. After decades of dieting, binging, restricting, and repeating the cycle, Rachel broke free and found healing. Her debut book, The Doughnut Diaries: A Personal Trainer’s Tale of Being Every Size from 12–0, is her candid, courageous answer to the question: Why me?
A personal trainer and wellness coach, Rachel uses her voice to challenge toxic beauty standards and help others stop fighting their bodies and start embracing them. Her story is for every person who’s felt alone in their struggle with size and self-worth. Through her words, Rachel reminds readers that true transformation begins with self-compassion.
Now based in the Carolinas, Rachel continues to inspire through coaching, writing, and helping others get organized—in life, in wellness, and in mindset.