List of Authors & Artists

Welcome to the 2026 Authors & Artists Fair on December 12-13, 2026, held at the Lane Events Center from 10am to 5pm!

HOLIDAY READS AT THE Authors Fair

• AUTHORS AT THE FAIR on December 12-13, 2026 WILL BE

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• Valarie Anderson: “Between the Lines” (2026), a novel based on the true story of a Navajo code talker’s WWII romance

• Dan Armstrong: “Creatures from the Interzone”, the fourth in a psy-fy/fantasy series set in Eugene

• Lynn Ash (Sunday only): “Schoolmarm: A Memoir” (2026)

• Joe Blakely: Oregon history, sports history, novels, and a memoir

• Tyler Burgess: “Eugene and Springfield Townscape Walks, 2nd edition” and other walking guidebooks and travel adventure narratives

• David Buzan: “In the Wrath of Legends” (thriller set in Oregon)

• Melody Carlson: “All Booked Up” (2026), “We Wish You a Messy Christmas” (2026) and dozens of other novels

• Jennifer Chambers: “Murder and Mayhem in Eugene” and other nonfiction history

• Alan Contreras (Saturday only): “Far Afield: 30 Years of Birding Adventure”

• Steve Davala (Saturday only): “Those Who Walk the Light” (2026, fantasy) and “Books Are for Reading, Not Eating!” (childrens)

• Warren C. Easley: “Deadly Redemption” (2026) and many other Oregon murder mysteries featuring detective Cal Claxton

• Kerry Eggers (Sunday only): “Scrolls of a Sports Scribe” (Oregon sports stories)

• Mark Fearing: “The Thing With No Head” (2026, “The Book That Eats People” (2026), and other illustrated children’s books

• Tim Fox: Four books in “The Afterlands Convergence” sci-fi series

• Miriam Gershow (Sunday only), “Closer”, a novel about racial tensions in a small Oregon town

• M.D. Grimm (Sunday only): 30 books of fantasy, scifi, paranormal, and queer romance

• Ann Herrick (Sunday only): “Boss of the Whole Sixth Grade” and other young adult novels

• A.B. Herron (Sunday only): “Wooden Wolves” and other urban fantasy romances

• Nina Kiriki Hoffman (Saturday only): Fantasy/scifi stories and a writing how-to guide

• Isaac Hunter (Saturday only): “Embracing Light” (2026), “Beautiful the Meadow” (2026),  and other supernatural suspense novels

• Kristine Jensen: “Wednesday Club”, a novel about a city girl dumped on a South Dakota farm

• Jason Kilgore: “First Nova I See Tonight” and other novels of scifi and horror

• Courtney Konstantin: “We Don’t Sacrifice Kids to Zombies” and other post-apocalyptic horror novels

• Anthea Kreston: “Crescendo: Chronicles of an Adventurous Violinist” (2026), memoir

• David Lewis (Saturday only): “Tribal Histories of the Willamette Valley” and “Kalapuya and Chinuk Wawa Ikanum” (a dictionary of local Native words)

• Mary E. Lowd: “Animal Voices, Unicorn Whispers” and other “furry” scifi novels

• Whitey Lueck (Saturday only): “Landscaping Nature’s Way”

• KD Lumsden (Sunday only): “Secrets of Urthis,” gay scifi novel

• L.L. Mason: “Toying With Magic” (2026), supernatural romance novel

• Ruby McConnell: “A Girl’s Guide to the Wild” and “Wilderness & the American Spirit”

• Donna McFarland: “I Lost My Monkey” (2026) and other children’s picture books

• Mose Tuzik Mosley: “A Journey With Orvis,” a humorous travel memoir

• Sharleen Nelson “The End of Time,” the final book in a series of time travel novels

• OSU Press: Over 100 books of Oregon interest

• Susan Palmer: “The Booker Rebellion,” a thriller set in Oregon’s Coast Range

• Kendy Pearson (Saturday only): “First of Injustice” (2026), historical fiction about Chinese in early San Francisco

• The Poets Corner: Half a dozen local poets, scheduled throughout both days, organized by Steven Schreiner

• Dawn Prochovnic (Saturday only): “Mama’s Home (And Baby Too!),” “Where Does a Pirate Go Potty?” and other children’s books

• Arlene Sachitano: “A Place to Knit” (2026), “The Quilt Before the Storm” and other cozy murder mysteries with quilting or knitting themes

• Paul Safar (Sunday only): Music scores and CDs of his contemporary classical music.

• Audrey Sauble (Sunday only): “Can a Rock Grow?” and other children’s picture books

• Andretta Schellinger: “Lane County’s Spanish-American War Memorial” (2026) and “Oregon Airfields During World War II”

• Tod Schneider (Sunday only): “Popsicle!” “Uncle Bunkle’s Humpty Dumpty” and other children’s books

• L.J. Sellers: “Missing And/Or Dead,” Eugene’s mayor is murdered in the 18th book of the Detective Jackson mystery series

• Eva Seyler (Sunday only): “Believe in Me” (2026), historical fiction about a 1920s Oregon aviatrix.

• Dorcas Smucker (Saturday only): “Coming Home to Roost” and other collections of her newspaper columns

• George Sorensen: “The Cello Who Love Me” (2026), memoir

• Jesse Springer (Sunday only): “Emerald City: The Compleat Collection,” cartoons

• Jack Stepp: “The Elysian”, graphic novels

• Rikki Strong: “My Life As a Superhero”, young adult novels

• Noah Strycker (Saturday only): “Birder’s Atlas of the World” and other books about birds

• William Sullivan: Hiking guidebooks and historical novels

• Kit Tosello “In a Word, Yes” and other romance novels

• Tsunami Books (Saturday only): new and used books from the Eugene bookstore

• David Wagner (Sunday only): “Oregon Nature Calendar 2027” and “A Lane County Almanac”

• Shirley Perez West: “Dreams of Earth and Sky” (2026), historical novel set in Mexican California at the beginning of the American takeover

• Erskine Wood: “Portraits of Oregon” (2026),