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2024 Los Angeles Festival of Books (LATFOB) Book Signing: “The Pilot Fish: A Joe Barrett Series” by Vince DeOrchis

In partnership with Author Reputation Press, Vince DeOrchis, author of “The Pilot Fish: A Joe Barrett Series,” held a successful book signing event during the 2024 Los Angeles Festival of Books (LATFOB) at the University of Southern California.

The Los Angeles Times held its much-awaited annual Festival of Books on April 20–21, 2024. Take in captivating exhibits, book readings, musical performances, and much more! Book lovers will find this festival to be an absolute paradise.

The LATFOB is considered to be one of the world’s most significant literary gatherings. It has been held every year since 1996 with the goal of bringing together the people who create books and the people who love to read them. It is attended by more than 550 authors, celebrities, storytellers, and hundreds of exhibitors.

The Los Angeles Times is the country’s biggest metropolitan daily newspaper, with more than 40 million unique latimes.com visitors monthly, a Sunday print readership of 1.6 million, and a combined print and online local weekly viewership of 4.4 million. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Times has been covering Southern California for more than 140 years.

Vince DeOrchis has been a practicing maritime lawyer in New York City for nearly 47 years. Before going to law school, he spent several months at sea as a deckhand on a freighter that traveled between Spain and the East Coat of the United States.

He has traveled around all over the globe conducting investigations and working with organizations such as the Comite Maritime International, the Maritime Law Association of the United States, and the UNCITRAL workshop involved in the development of a new international convention for the carriage of cargo at sea while handling many marine casualty cases. He is also one of the founders of the International Maritime Law Seminar, which is held in London and Singapore each year.

“The Pilot Fish: A Joe Barrett Series” by Vince DeOrchis follows the thrilling investigation of Joe Barret, a maritime lawyer, who was sent to investigate a collision with a container ship in the English Channel, which reveals a shocking discovery of the intricate plan of a powerful Korean family involving an unfamiliar device of questionable origin that he dubs The Pilot Fish.

This thrilling masterpiece was among the books displayed by Author Reputation Press during the Frankfurt Book Fair 2023 in Frankfurt, Germany, on October 18–22, 2023. The said event is reportedly known as the world’s largest trade fair for books.

Moreover, a Hollywood movie script coverage and Hollywood movie treatment have been released for the book’s qualification for a Hollywood movie adaptation. The screenplay is the common ground on which producers, directors, actors, and production teams working on the movie will collaborate from start to finish and serves as a roadmap for them in terms of what will be seen on the big screen.

Visit Author Reputation Press official social media accounts for more updates and upcoming events.

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