Event Operations & Logistics
The festival committee coordinates every technical aspect of the show — physical staging, projectors and A/V rigging — while managing logistics and processing author replies from a single office.
Belle Daves
Belle founded this office in 2005 and still runs it day to day. She assigns every on-air slot, curates each Book Club month, and personally approves the holiday activation calendar. If a book goes live on IAMG Airwaves, Belle put it there.
Colleen William
Colleen scales every event beyond its first broadcast. She forges publisher alliances, opens new territory markets, and turns a single reading into a cross-platform movement. Where Belle builds the calendar, Colleen grows its reach.
Mary Smith
Mary is the third desk in this office. She onboards every visiting author, manages sponsor relationships, and keeps the partner pipeline moving from first contact to signed activation. When a guest arrives at IAMG, Mary is the first call they make.
Helen Thomas
Helen is the office's operations partner. She runs the run-of-show for every broadcast week, locks travel and venue logistics for guest authors, and keeps the activation calendar synced across radio, Book Club and holiday programming. Nothing ships from this desk until Helen signs it off.
Step inside Belle's corner office.
Calendar wall, four-market time clocks, the live "On Air" sign above the broadcast desk, walnut shelves of manuscripts — every detail of the room is built around the 2026 activation calendar.
The Events Coordinator's Desk
A working portrait of the room where IAMG's broadcast year is built — calendar wall, time-zone clocks, studio mic and a curated shelf of manuscripts.
Two voices. One calendar. Zero missed cues.
Belle Daves
The original architect. Belle has been with IAMG since day one — 2005 — building the Events Office from a simple author-appearance ledger into a full broadcast command center.
She personally assigns every on-air slot, approves each radio briefing, and curates the monthly Book Club lineup. When an author needs a broadcast window, Belle is the first and last word.
Her domain: holiday activations, live reading schedules, Airwaves programming, and the production calendar that keeps every IAMG division in sync.
Colleen William
The growth strategist. Colleen directs where IAMG events go next — new cities, new platforms, new partnerships. She turns a single broadcast into a cross-market movement.
She manages publisher alliances, negotiates broadcaster relationships, and scales activations from local readings to international book tours.
Her domain: strategic partnerships, territory expansion, cross-market collaborations, and ensuring every event finds its audience — no matter the timezone.
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