Tucson Festival of Books

Lights! Camera! Publish!


Ed Burns, Ramona Emerson and Bill Carter have resumes that often bridge the gap between page and stage. Each has experience in film. All three are authors. In this session, they will discuss how they think differently when it comes to storytelling in various media, and how each uniquely enhances a story.


Panelists
Edward Burns

Born in Woodside, Queens and raised on Long Island, Edward Burns has made 14 feature films as a writer-director-actor and starred in many films, including "Saving Private Ryan." In 2015, he published "Independent Ed," an inside look at his two decades as a pioneer in independent filmmaking....

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Bill Carter

Bill Carter is the screenwriter and executive producer of the documentary “Kiss the Future,” produced by Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Sarah Anthony, and based on Carter’s book "Fools Rush In....

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Ramona Emerson

Ramona Emerson is a Diné writer and filmmaker who comes to the festival with a ghostly thriller, "Exposure." Her first novel, "Shutter," was longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award in fiction....

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Books:
A Kid from Marlboro Road
A Novel
Edward Burns
Fiction / Literature
Seven Stories Press
August 2024
ISBN 9781644214077
224 pages

Exposure
Ramona Emerson
Mystery / Thrillers
Soho Press
October 2024
ISBN 9781641294768
288 pages

Fools Rush in
The Book That Inspired the Movie Kiss the Future
Bill Carter
Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction
Schaffner Press
May 2024
ISBN 9781639640515
384 pages