FRAUD WARNING: We have been alerted that some authors are receiving scam emails that claim to be from Tucson Festival of Books. The emails offer the opportunity to participate in the festival, or a virtual festival, for a fee. This is a scam and is in no way affiliated with Tucson Festival of Books. The fake invitation is sometimes rendered as TucsonBookFest.contact which is not the official name of our event, and may also use the real name of one of our founders, board members, or Executive Director.
Please be assured we never charge a fee to presenting authors. All invitations to present will come from an email address ending in tucsonfestivalofbooks.org.
We do charge a $50 application fee for Indie Authors submitting their books for consideration to reserve a time to sell them in our Indie Author Pavilion, but we will never solicit this fee by email. When our application opens later this summer, we will link to that here on this page. The application is the only legitimate way to express your interest in participating as an Indie Author and pay that fee.
It appears that scammers are targeting publicly available email addresses. Please be assured that no Tucson Festival of Books data has been compromised or leaked. If you would like to check the legitimacy of an invitation you seem to have received, please kindly contact us at executivedirector@tucsonfestivalofbooks.org.
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