List of Authors & Artists

Welcome to the 2024 Authors & Artists Fair on December 14, 2024, held at the Lane Events Center from 10am to 5pm!

HOLIDAY READS AT THE Authors Fair

AUTHORS AT THE FAIR on December 14, 2024 

Here’s a complete list of the authors who will be autographing at the Authors & Artists Fair from 10am-5pm on Saturday, December 14, 2024, along with the titles of their most recent works. Note that some authors will only attend for half of the day. 

• Dan Armstrong: “Stella: The Mushroom Girl from Outer Space” (2024, fiction set in Eugene in the 1980s), and many other novels.

• Lynn Ash, “The Heat of the Fireman” (2024, stories) and adventure memoirs.

• Joe Blakely: “The Saturday Market Challenge” (2024, memoir) and more than a dozen books about Oregon history.

• C. Steven Blue: “The Last Hippy Poet of the Woodstock Generation” (memoir) and books of poetry.

• Lee Boutell: “We Can Change the World” (2024, a history of Eugene’s Eggsnatchur vegetarian restaurant in the 1970s).

• David Buzan: “In the Lair of Legends,” a thriller about a Native American Civil War veteran on a secret mission in Southern Oregon.

• Jennifer Chambers: “Murder and Mayhem in the Willamette Valley,” a history of Oregon crimes.

• Alan Contreras: “Far Afield: 30 Years of Birding Adventure: (2024, memoir) and other works about birding and history.

• Theo Czuk (only 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.): “Hastings Street: Boulevard of Blues (2024, novel).

• John Daniel: “Lighted Distances: Four Seasons on Goodlow Rim,” a sequence of poetry and prose from the dry side of Oregon.

• Carola Dunn (only 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.): “The Corpse at Crystal Palace” and other cozy murder mysteries set in England.

• Veronica Esagui (only 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.): Three poetry anthologies in 2024 – “Love Poems”, “Magic Poems”, and “Mortality Poems”.

• Mark Fearing: “Brandon and the Totally Troublesome Time Machine” (2024, illustrated by Fearing), “Giant Pants” and many other children’s picture books.

• Anna Grace: “Mistletoe at Jameson Rach” is the latest release in her Harlequin Heartwarming series, “The Teacher Project.”

• Susan Haig: “California Condors in the Pacific Northwest” (a history of the birds published by the OSU Press).

• Reid Hart (only 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.): “Tarot Spirit Healing”, a guide to personal growth combining aspects of shamanism, tarot, and astrology.

• Ann Herrick: “Stuck in a Boys Camp!” and other novels for middle-grade readers.  Amanda Herron: “Hearing Wind” (2024), the second book in her “Elemental Wolf” series of urban fantasy romances set in Oregon.

• Amalie Rush Hill (only 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.): “along the lane” (2024, poems).

• Nina Kiriki Hoffman (only 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.): “The Short Story Cookbook”, a how-to guide for creating stories using dice and lists of ingredients.

• Kimberly Jensen: “Oregon’s Others” (2024), a history of important women and minority people overlooked by traditional histories.

• Michael Kemp: “Why Stuff Falls Down: The story of science and gravity from Aristotle to Einstein, told in plain English”.

• Jason Kilgore: “Footman of the Ether” and other fantasy/sci fi books.

• David G. Lewis: “Tribal Histories of the Willamette Valley”.

• Howard Libes: “What You Will” (2024), the third and final book of the “Seeder” series of sci-fi novels.

• Joanie Lindenmeyer: “Nun Better”, a memoir of the 40-year romance and eventual marriage of two Catholic nuns.

• Mary E. Lowd: “Unicorn Whispers”, “Paw Prints Beyond the Moon”, “Brunch at the All Alien Café” (all 2024), and many other “furry” fantasy/sci fi novels

• Kristine Lynn: “One Lucky Cowboy” and a dozen other clean romance novels.

• Donna McFarland: “I Lost My Penguin” (2024) and other children’s and how-to books.

• Marli Miller: “Death Valley Rocks!” (2024) and “Oregon Rocks! A Guide to 60 Amazing Geologic Sites.”

• Mose Tuzik Mosley: “A Journey With Orvis” (2024), humorous fictional travel memoir of a journey with an invisible talking dog.

• Sharleen Nelson: “The End of Time” (2024), the third and final book in the “Time Tourists” series of time travel novels.

• Paul Neville: “The Garbage Brothers,” a coming-of-age novel about a young man with a summer job as a Chicago garbage collector.

• Tim Ream (only 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.): “Fallen Water” (2024), a novel about a fugitive who escapes to a Zen Buddhist monastery in California.

• Grace Richards (only 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.): “Break-Up Hair & Other Poems”.

• Daniel Roby: “As the Condor Soars: Conserving and Restoring Oregon’s Birds”.

• Frank Scalise: “Under a Raging Moon” and 50 other novels, many of them gritty crime fiction set in a fictionalized Spokane, where Scalise retired from the police force.

• L.J. Sellers: “AfterStrike” and more than a dozen other thrillers set in Oregon.

• Daphne Singingtree: “Circle for the Earth” (2024), a time travel novel in which a modern Lakota casino is transported back to the year 1791.

• Dorcas Smucker: “Coming Home to Roost: A Mennonite Mom Reflects on Life Choices, Adult Children and Country Living”

• William Sullivan: “The Ship in the Ice” (2024), the final book in a series of Viking historical novels, and an updated version of “100 Hikes in the Central Oregon Cascades”.

• Muabilai Tshionyi: Children’s picture books about African folk tales, published under the name “Dr. T.”

• Tsunami Books: “Booksellers & Significant Others: An Anthology”, “Cronies”, and a variety of local new and used books.

• David Wagner: “Oregon Nature Calendar 2025” and “A Lane County Almanac.”

• Bob Welch: “Seven Summers (And a Few Bummers): My Adventures Hiking the 2650-Mile PCT.”

• Ross West: “The Fragile Blue Dot: Stories from Our Imperiled Biosphere” (2024).