Participating Authors 2018 to date
Meet Some Of Northern California’s Most Distinguished Authors
Keynote
Sasha Abramsky, Jumping at Shadows: The Triumph of Fear and the End of the American Dream
Fiction
Lois Ann Abraham, Tina Goes to Heaven
Sylvia Brownrigg, Pages for Her
Jessica Barksdale Inclán, The Burning Hour
Michael David Lukas, The Last Watchman of Old Cairo
Erin Lyon, Unconditionally
Marcus McGee, Alberta
Nayomi Munaweera, What Lies Between Us
Cornelia Nixon, The Use of Frame
Norman Ollestad, French Girl with Mother
Anne Raeff, Winter Kept Us Warm
Mary Volmer, Reliance, Illinois
Historical Fiction
Gini Gossenbacher, Madam of My Heart: A Novel of Love, Loss and Redemption
Meredith Jaeger, The Dressmaker’s Dowry
Jennifer Laam, The Lost Season of Love and Snow
Erika Mailman, The Murderer’s Maid: A Lizzie Borden Novel
Mark Noce, Dark Winds Rising
Memoir
Tamim Ansary, Road Trips, Becoming an American in the Vapor Trail of the 60’s
Gayle Greene, Missing Persons
Sands Hall, Flunk. Start: Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology
Marilyn Reynolds, Til Death or Dementia Do Us Part
Mystery
Lillian Bell, A Grave Issue
Claire Booth, Another Man’s Ground
Allison Brennan, Shattered
R. Franklin James, The Identity Thief
Catriona McPherson, HOUSE. TREE. PERSON.
Heather Young, The Lost Girls
Nonfiction
A.J. Baime, The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World
Albert Flynn DeSilver, Writing as a Path to Awakening
Obi Kaufmann, The California Field Atlas
Gina Mulligan, Dear Friend; Letters of Encouragement, Humor, and Love for Women with Breast Cancer
Gayle Pitman, Feminism From A – Z
Bridget Quinn, Broad Strokes – 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History (In That Order)
Gin Sander, The Big Bucket List: 133 Experiences of A Lifetime
Syma Solovitch, Down the Up Staircase: Three Generations of a Harlem Family
Jordon Summers, Day and Section Hikes—John Muir Trail
Poetry
J.L. Cooper, An Ocean Large Enough
Frances Kakugawa, Dangerous Woman: Poetry for the Ageless
Brynn Saito, Power Made Us Swoon
Jeanine Stevens, Brief Immensity
Young Adult
Kim Culbertson, The Wonder of Us
Beth McMullen, Mrs. Smith’s Spy School for Girls
Joan Rice, A Zoo For You