| Where: | Indie Authors - Adult Fiction and Nonfiction (Seats 18)  |
| When: | Sun, Mar 5, 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm |
Vali grew up in the Midwest. She now lives in Tucson with her husband, two sons and grandchildren. After graduating from the University of Illinois, Vali started and sold two successful businesses before she decided to pursue her real passion of writing....
Mary Ann Carman has been writing since 1997. In that time she's written ten books and updated five of them. She's currently working on the final edits on the re-write/update of the fifth book in her contemporary series "Helena Foster Paranormal Mystery" series and working through writing the sixth book in the same series....
J.F. Cronin is a retired Marine Corps Major General whose military experiences inform many of his works. As a junior officer in Vietnam, his first books pointed to the disconnect betweeen those running the war and the grunts....
David R. Davis served as a medic with the 101st. Airborne Division in Vietnam. He worked as a social worker and therapist for 35 years and is now an author living in Tucson, AZ. He has published two novels - "Running In, Walking Out" and "The Unusual Man....
Beth M. Howard is the author of four books, including "Making Piece: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Pie;" the cookbook, "Ms. American Pie;" "Hausfrau Honeymoon: Love, Language, and Other Misadventures in Germany," and her latest release, "World Piece: A Pie Baker’s Global Quest for Peace, Love, and Understanding....
Kristin Jarvis Adams is the author of "THE CHICKEN WHO SAVED US: The Remarkable Story of Andrew and Frightful," which received national attention in the Wall Street Journal and has been featured on NBC News West Coast affiliates, the Washington Post, Fred Hutch News, ParentMap Magazine, Autism Parenting Magazine, Seattle Children’s Pulse, 406 Woman Magazine, 425 Magazine, and Pacific Northwest community newspapers....
Lars Jensen lives in the painted and prickly deserts of Arizona. Though he's worked in construction, delivery, the dreaded office space, and in high school, it was always more fun to sit back and write....
I am an independent historian with a flair for coaxing fresh crop from the well-plowed fields of America’s Revolutionary Era by harvesting primary source materials too close to the ground for “great-man” narratives....
Sandra Cavallo Miller is a recently retired family physician who has always been a writer in her secret heart. Very little fiction is written about women physicians, and she finds it a great challenge to show the struggles and triumphs of day-to-day practice in an entertaining and informative way....
Kelli (K. L.) Peacock lives in Tucson, Arizona. She is an avid photographer, traveler and rose gardener. Born and raised in Central New York State - near the Finger Lakes, she moved to Tucson twenty-nine years ago....
Jennifer (Jen) lives in the beautiful Upper Peninsula, several hours from the big city where she once grew up; however, this does not stop her from traveling all over the world. She has a love for her Yooper lifestyle and takes extraordinary pride in where she lives and all that her area has to offer such as hunting, fishing and camping and lots of great outdoor activities....
Frances Peck (Vancouver, Canada) wrote fiction and poetry until her early twenties, when she stopped (ironically) to earn a living from words as an editor and ghostwriter. Her debut novel, "The Broken Places," explores how a devastating earthquake in the Pacific Northwest shakes up the lives and relationships of a group of wildly different people thrown together by circumstances....
David E Ragland was born in West Virginia, served as a medic in the US Army, and has lived in many parts of the US. He uses his experiences and knowledge of locations to write stories about everyday people having extraordinary lives....
Laura Kelly Robb writes mystery and suspense novels. "The Laguna Shores Research Club," published by TouchPoint Press in 2022, tells the story of an artist in St. Augustine whose search for her neighbor’s killer reveals a web of corruption....
My husband, John, and I live and work in Tucson, Arizona. We lost our son to a heroin overdose in 2014. John Leif was 25 and had struggled with opiate addiction and alcholism for 10 years. After he died, we kept a journal together for a year, writing to our son as a way to hold on to him and as an enduring memorial to document our grief....
Debra VanDeventer, author of "Out of the Crayon Box," is a former educator who channels her creative energies into writing. Her style can best be described as creative nonfiction as small moments bloom into words....
Amy M. Wall, EA, MBA, has lived in Tucson since 1959. She is retired from her private tax practice in Tucson, Arizona. Despite being a self-described “numbers girl,” she admits to a lifelong fascination with vampires....
Brackette F. Williams received a PhD in cultural anthropology from The Johns Hopkins University. Since retiring from the School of Anthropology at The University of Arizona, she combines creative photography with writing fiction as she continues her research in the anthropology of North American and Caribbean history and culture....
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