| Where: | Indie Authors - Adult Fiction and Nonfiction (Seats 20)  |
| When: | Sun, Mar 16, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm |
"The great stories pull you in as you are and then free you as someone new. The best stories never let you go." - C.M. Adler Chelsea Adler, the enchanting mind behind your next favorite fantasy romance novels, is a master of weaving magic into words....
Patricia Boomsma is a former Arizona lawyer now enjoying her retirement by writing and working on her fiber art. Her publications include short stories in Scarlet Leaf Review, Persimmon Tree and Vignette Review....
Bonnie Callahan was born in Tucson, where she went on to study Classics and Italian at the University of Arizona. After seven years in Italy, she is back in the Sonoran Desert, where she lives with her Italian study abroad sweetheart, their two kids, and a few bilingual pets....
Paul Crews was born in Amarillo, Texas and educated at Williams College and Columbia University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He studied opera in Naples, Italy and New York City before moving to the island of Mallorca and then Mexico with his wife....
Joe Egan, an award-nominated Minnesotan author, resides in the heartland with his wife, daughter and son. His literary journey began at the age of seven crafting short stories and creating student newspapers....
Ann Anderson Evans is a writer, linguist and professor of writing. Twice a wife and once a widow, she’s a mother and grandmother. She has traveled and lived in many countries and speaks six languages....
Dr. Fisher was a senior program officer with the Gates Family Foundation and the Director of the Molly Brown House Museum in Denver. She served on the board of the Colorado State Historical Society (now History Colorado) for 26 years and on the Advisory Board of the National Trust for Historic Preservation for nine years....
GK Jurrens writes with undiluted passion. He’s published sixteen titles to date including twelve action-oriented novels across five series. GK and his wife have lived and traveled in a motorhome for almost a decade....
Cassie Leonard (she/her) is the Founder and Principal Coach at ELMM Coaching, and an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) with the International Coaching Federation (ICF). Cassie is a versatile professional - an engineer, author and executive coach....
Angela Rose is a sculptor, painter, jewelry maker and installation artist. Her work often draws inspiration from nature and impermanence, from what falls from trees and washes to shore. She seeks to foster creativity as a way of daily living....
Patricia Ann McNair has lived 95 percent of her life in the Midwest. She’s managed a gas station, served as a medical volunteer in Honduras, sold pots and pans door to door, tended bar, breaded mushrooms, worked on the trading floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and taught aerobics....
Janelle Molony, M.S.L. is an avid family historian who features incredible women from the past in her critically acclaimed nonfictions. While researching her family’s Oregon Trail story, she discovered one of the largest Civil War engagements in the West! Her latest, "Emigrant Tales of the Platte River Raids," was awarded the WILLA Award for scholarly nonfiction and the GOLD award for U....
Sandi Richmond, Ph.D., turned 80 last year but did not fully embrace her active lifestyle until her mid-40s. However, once she got started exercising outside, she never looked back, and has never stopped hiking, climbing and walking....
Susan Rukeyser writes things that are feminist, queer and otherwise radical. Her new novel, "The Worst Kind of Girl," is out now from Braddock Avenue Books. Find her in Joshua Tree, CA, or at susanrukeyser....
Kenneth Strange Jr. was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1955. A former FBI Special Agent with the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF), DOJ Special Agent in Charge, PI and current author, Ken came out in 2023 with an award-winning true crime memoir, “A Cop’s Son: One G-Man’s Fight Against Jihad, Global Fraud and the Cartels....
Nancy Nau Sullivan's first mystery, "Saving Tuna Street," was a finalist in Foreword Review's best INDIES mysteries. It is the first of the series that continues in Mexico City, Vietnam and Ireland. The fifth installment, "Hot Tango in Argentina," launches in June....
A native New Yorker, Ashley E. Sweeney is the winner of the Nancy Pearl Book Award and more than 15 other literary awards for her novels "Eliza Waite," "Answer Creek" and "Hardland." "The Irish Girl," based on the author's great-grandmother's story of coming alone to America from Ireland at age 13 in 1886, released in December 2024....
J. B. Velasquez has always been an avid reader and lover of witty, satirical and thoughtful fiction. His writing reflects upon his own inquiries and observations about life through the lens of interesting and deeply flawed characters....
Michael Woudenberg is an aspiring Polymath from Tucson Arizona with a background in advanced technologies such as autonomy, artificial intelligence, blockchain, cyber, aerospace, national security and weapon systems across a variety of companies from tech startups to Fortune 150 companies....
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