Micropublishing a trove of lovely lady authors Turkeys in trees, a bookish owl typical of children's books with motherly flair Personal guides to small biz secrets, biking adventures and graceful manners Yes, it was small scale compared with the recent big spending commercial extravaganza at Javits, but the New York Book Fest at the Radisson Martinique on 32nd and Broadway on Sat (June 22 2013, 10.30 am to 5pm) had all the advantages of micropublishing. Lovely lady authors with the rich charm and enthusiasm of productive authorship and seemingly enabled with special knowledge of how to intrigue children with tales of helpful animals mixed with equally lovely lady authors on how to have biking adventures all over upstate New York, and much other advice. Books that give from those who like to give There was a dynamic beauty from the airwaves of Australia who has written an intelligent and graceful guide to showing kindness and consideration to others (see "Grace" by Alicia Young, below), who appeared on a panel on the outlook for books and worried that computers might replace human authors and write whole books in minutes. There were pithy handbooks on running a small business or how to get a job from male authors and from a female and very buoyant African American author a helpful one how to survive and flourish after divorce, which was usefully based on interviews with twenty wives thus liberated. Clearly there is no prospect of computers ever replacing the attractions of personality visible in lady and gentleman authors who have put their hearts and minds in writing and producing - sometimes even doing the illustrations themselves - a book on their favorite theme imbued with their desire to entertain and help children and grownups.