Meet more than 20 local authors whose writing covers a range of genres including children’s stories, memoirs, poetry, romantasy and true crime.

Authors who will be in attendance at this event include: • Dr. Aly – Children’s stories including Black Heirs, I Am Beautiful, and Fast Cars• F. C. Appelhanz – Poetry collections including Mind Dancing, Valley View Farms, and Embrace the Adventure• Annette Hope Billings – Affirmation book Descants for a Daughter and poetry books Just Shy of Stars and A Net Full of Hope• Art Brennan – Blood on the Line, a book designed to help veterans, first responders and their families• Anamarie Davis-Wilkins – Novels Didn’t Know to Say No and Under and Over, the poetry collection To See My Own World and more• EJ Drake – Several comics including Composition Book Chronicles Anthology Series, A Harvest of the Macabre and Lil Pat (coauthored by Olive Drake)• Dawn Feltrop – Children’s picture book Rosemary Chick: Pip, Zip, Hooray! A Rosemary and Sassafras Story.• D. D. Franklin – Paranormal romance novels Silver Lake: Awakening and Silver Lake: Birthright• Kimberly Garber – Biographical historical fiction novel Scratched Vinyl: Louie’s Story• Debbie Gassert – True crime book Mighty Neighborly: A True Story of the Fredrick Iwert Murder• Rita Grace – Children’s story The Magical Train RideWilliam Isley – Fiction novels The Likeness of Sinful Flesh: A Story of Redemption and Chasing the Wind: A Philosophical Novel• Raylynne Lee – The Empty Graveyard, a novel for middle grade readers• C. B. Livingston – Memoir Infusion Diaries and the young adult novel A Diamond in the Rough• Ruth Maus – Novel Lunacy and Acts of God and two collections of poetry Puzzled and Valentine

• Timothy McHenry – Young adult novel You’re With Me and the memoir A Leg to Stand On• Samantha Morrison – Poetry collection Barefoot• Julie Nischan – Autobiography Misspent: My Life in Retail, The Substitute Cook cookbook, the poetry collection Human/Nature• Leslie “Pepper” Richards – Children’s book Let’s Be AmigosKaleb Stoppel – Memoir One Step at a Time: Surviving a School Shooting, Rebuilding My Life, and Rediscovering What Matters Most.• Melanie Bonner Thomas – Scientific biography Old Man of the Fossil Beds: A Kansas Dreamer, His Family of Hunters, and Their Search for Prehistoric Sea Creatures and the science book Fossils of the Rock Chalk: Bones and Beasts of Cretaceous Kansas• Stacy Thowe – The Guardians, a romantasy series, and romance novels God Bless My Broken Road and Soap Opera Digest: The Story of a Woman. A Dream. And an Endless Love.• Ernie W. Webb III – True crime book Goodbye, Butterfly: Murder, Faith, and Forgiveness in a Small Town• Victor Williams – Elsie, “The Scarecrow” a true story about Williams’ childhood.