The festival has a very positive image on the global front as we have extensive and always positive international press like the New York Times, Independent in London, Fox National News, Book Television in Canada and The Global Mail in Canada, among others.

Calabash portrays Jamaica as a highly educated and sophisticated literary society, that we have talent and that we cannot only sing music but we can also write books.

The festival also shows that our novelists can be on par with other authors in the world. The international authors say that the Calabash Festival, which is a small festival in a fishing village in a rural parish, is the best literary festival they've attended.

And third, after the family's press conference resulted in a positive ID of Emmanuel as 49-year-old Utah native Brian David Mitchell, Sgt. Don Bell of SLPD downplayed Mitchell's potential as a suspect, and the department again left it to the Smart family to take the lead in publicizing Mitchell's identity and photographs.

The way I look at a successful event is positive press,

I just didn't press. Every time I got out, Coach Horton stayed positive with me. I came up that last at-bat and said I want to be the man.