2022 Festival Authors
The following authors are scheduled to appear at the 17th annual Festival of Books & Authors on Saturday, September 24, 2022. These sessions will be free and open to the public. Schedule, signings, and panel details subject to change.
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SAMIRA AHMED
Samira Ahmed is the New York Times bestselling author of Amira & Hamza: The War to Save the Worlds; Love, Hate & Other Filters; Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know; Internment; and Hollow Fires. She was born in Bombay, India and has lived in New York, Chicago, and Kauai, where she spent a year searching for the perfect mango. In Amira & Hamza: The Quest for the Ring of Power, the siblings are back in an epic sequel to take readers on a magical adventure as they face their most formidable opponent yet. Photo courtesy of Erielle Bakkum.
Session 1: Myths and Magic | Kids Stage | 1:30pm-2:15pm
Booksigning Tent: 2:30pm
Session 2: Find Your People | Footnote | 3:30pm-4:15pm
Booksigning Tent: 4:30pm
TESSA BAILEY
Tessa Bailey can solve all problems except for her own, so she focuses those efforts on stubborn, fictional blue collar men and loyal, lovable heroines. Dubbed the “Michelangelo of dirty talk,” by Entertainment Weekly, Tessa writes with spice, spirit, swoon and a guaranteed happily ever after. Hook, Line, and Sinker, the follow-up to It Happened One Summer, is a deliciously funny rom-com about a former player who accidentally falls for his best friend while trying to help her land a different man. Photo courtesy of Nisha Ver Halen
Session: All the Love | Hanesbrands Theatre | 3:30pm-4:15pm
Booksigning Tent: 4:30pm
JENNIFER LYNN BARNES
Jennifer Lynn Barnes is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty acclaimed young adult novels, including The Inheritance Games series, Little White Lies, Deadly Little Scandals, The Lovely and the Lost, and The Naturals series. Jen is also a Fulbright Scholar with advanced degrees in psychology, psychiatry, and cognitive science. In The Final Gambit, Avery's fortune, life, and loves are on the line in the game that everyone will be talking about.
Session: Find Your People | Footnote | 3:30pm-4:15pm
Booksigning Tent: 4:30pm
ANNE BOGEL
Anne Bogel is an author, the creator of the blog Modern Mrs Darcy, and host of the What Should I Read Next? podcast and the Modern Mrs Darcy Book Club. My Reading Adventures is a unique journal that encourages young readers to spend more time enjoying books, gives them great suggestions for what to read next, and helps them remember what they've read.
Session 1: Reading Past Bedtime | Winston Square Park | 12:00pm-12:45pm
Session Moderator: Book Club Favorites with the Modern Mrs Darcy | Calvary Moravian | 1:45pm-2:30pm
Booksigning Tent: 2:45pm
SANDRA BROWN
Sandra Brown is the author of seventy-three New York Times bestsellers, including Blind Tiger, Thick As Thieves, Seeing Red, Outfox, Tailspin, Seeing Red, Sting and Mean Streak. In Overkill Brown delivers a riveting thriller in which a conflict of conscience for a former football star and an ambitious state prosecutor swiftly intensifies into a fight for their lives. Photo courtesy of Ryan M. Brown Photography.
Session: Didn't See That Coming | Calvary Moravian | 3:30pm-4:15pm
Booksigning Tent: 4:30pm
SANDRA CISNEROS
Sandra Cisneros, the best-selling author of The House on Mango Street, is a poet, short story writer, novelist, essayist, performer, and artist. Her numerous awards include NEA fellowships in both poetry and fiction, a MacArthur Fellowship, the PEN America Literary Award, and the National Medal of Arts. More recently, she received the Ford Foundation's Art of Change Fellowship, was recognized with the Fuller Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature, and won the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. In addition to her writing, Cisneros has fostered the careers of many aspiring and emerging writers through two nonprofits she founded: Macondo Writers and the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Foundation. Woman Without Shame is a moving collection of songs, elegies, and declarations that chronicle her pilgrimage toward rebirth and the recognition of her prerogative as a woman artist. These bluntly honest and often humorous meditations on memory, desire, and the essential nature of love blaze a path toward self-awareness. Photo courtesy of Keith Dannemiller.
Session: Woman Without Shame| Calvary Moravian | 11:00am-12:00pm *Masks are required*
Booksigning Tent: 12:15pm *Masks are required.
P. DJÈLÍ CLARK
Born in New York and raised mostly in Houston, P. Djèlí Clark spent the formative years of his life in the homeland of his parents, Trinidad and Tobago. He is the author of the novellas Ring Shout, The Black God’s Drums, and The Haunting of Tram Car 015. He has won the Nebula, Locus, and Alex Awards and been nominated for the Hugo, World Fantasy, and Sturgeon Awards. A Master of Djinn is P. Djèlí Clark's first full-length novel, the story of a Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments, and Supernatural Entities agent who must unravel the mystery of a murder and imposter in 1912 Cairo to restore peace to the city.
Session: The Alternate Worlds of Tor | Reynolds Place | 11:30am-12:15pm
Booksigning Tent: 12:30pm
SAYANTANI DASGUPTA
Sayantani DasGupta is the New York Times bestselling author of the critically acclaimed, Bengali folktale and string theory-inspired Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond books, the first of which -- The Serpent's Secret -- was a Bank Street Best Book of the Year, a Booklist Best Middle Grade Novel of the 21st Century, and an E. B. White Read Aloud Honor Book. Sayantani is a pediatrician by training but now teaches at Columbia University. She is a team member of We Need Diverse Books. Debating Darcy is bestselling author Sayantani DasGupta’s reinterpretation of beloved classic Pride and Prejudice -- imaginative, hilarious, thought-provoking, and truly reflective of the complex, diverse world of American high school culture. Photo courtesy of Stephanie Berger.
Session 1: Demons and Dragons | Kids Stage | 10:15am-11:00am
Booksigning Tent: 11:15am
Session 2: Find Your People | Footnote | 3:30pm-4:15pm
Booksigning Tent: 4:30pm
TRACY DEONN
Due to unforeseen circumstances, Tracy Deonn regrettably will not be able to attend the Bookmarks Festival.
Tracy Deonn is the New York Times bestselling and Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe Award–winning author of Legendborn, and a second-generation fangirl. She grew up in central North Carolina, where she devoured fantasy books and Southern food in equal measure. After earning her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in communication and performance studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Tracy worked in live theater, video game production, and K–12 education. Filled with mystery and an intriguingly rich magic system, Tracy Deonn’s YA contemporary fantasy Legendborn offers the dark allure of City of Bones with a modern-day twist on a classic legend and a lot of Southern Black Girl Magic.
Session: They Walk Among Us | Footnote | 1:00pm-1:45pm
Booksigning Tent: 2:00pm
MIKE DUNCAN
Mike Duncan is the creator of the History of Rome and Revolutions podcasts. He is also the New York Times bestselling author of The Storm Before the Storm and Hero of Two Worlds. Hero of Two Worlds is the thrilling story of the Marquis de Lafayette's lifelong quest to defend the principles of democracy, told through the lens of the three revolutions he participated in: the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and the Revolution of 1830. Presented with support from High Point University School of Humanities and Behavioral Sciences through a grant from the Cultural Enrichment Series.
Session: Hero of Two Worlds | Calvary Moravian | 12:30pm-1:15pm
Booksigning Tent: 1:30pm
KAT FAJARDO
Kat Fajardo is a Honduran Colombian award-winning cartoonist and illustrator from the lively and magical place of Loisaida, New York City. She is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts, and her work has been recognized by online publications such as Remezcla, El Hispanic News, School Library Journal, Huffington Post Latino Voices, and more. Miss Quinces is a middle-grade graphic novel about a girl who would rather do anything other than celebrate her quinceañera--a funny and heartfelt coming-of-age story about navigating the expectations of family and cultural tradition.
Session: Miss Quinces/Srta. Quinces: A Graphic Novel | Kids Stage | 12:30pm-1:15pm
Booksigning Tent: 1:30pm
MARCIE COHEN FERRIS
Marcie Cohen Ferris is professor emerita in American Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill and acting director of UNC's Center for the Study of the American South. Edible North Carolina gathers a constellation of leading journalists, farmers, chefs, entrepreneurs, scholars, and food activists--along with photographer Baxter Miller--to offer a deeply immersive portrait of North Carolina's contemporary food landscape.
Session: Edible North Carolina | Reynolds Place | 10:00am-10:45am
Booksigning Tent: 11:00am
SIDIK FOFANA
Sidik Fofana earned an MFA from New York University. He lives with his wife and son in New York City where he is a public school teacher. Stories from the Tenants Downstairs is set in a Harlem high rise and is a stunning debut about a tight-knit cast of characters grappling with their own personal challenges while the forces of gentrification threaten to upend life as they know it. Photo courtesy of Roque Nonini.
Session: Build Your TBR | Hanesbrands Theatre | 12:00pm-12:45pm
Booksigning Tent: 1:00pm
JAMIE FORD
Jamie Ford is the great-grandson of Nevada mining pioneer Min Chung, who emigrated from Hoiping, China to San Francisco in 1865, where he adopted the western name Ford, thus confusing countless generations. His debut novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, spent two years on the New York Times bestseller list and went on to win the 2010 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. His work has been translated into thirty-five languages. Having grown up in Seattle, he now lives in Montana with his wife and a one-eyed pug. The Many Daughters of Afong Moy is a powerful exploration of the love that binds one family across the generations.
Session: Ties That Bind | Hanesbrands Theatre | 10:00am-10:45am
Booksigning Tent: 11:00am
MEGAN GIDDINGS
Megan Giddings is an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota. Her first novel, Lakewood, was one of New York Magazine's top ten books of 2020, an NPR Best Book of 2020, a Michigan Notable book for 2021, among other accolades. The Women Could Fly is a piercing dystopian novel about the unbreakable bond between a young woman and her mysterious mother, set in a world in which witches are real and single women are closely monitored. Presented with support from Salem Academy and College.
Session: When Women Are Witches | Hanesbrands Theatre | 2:30pm-3:15pm
Booksigning Tent: 3:30pm
ALAN GRATZ
Alan Gratz is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of seventeen novels for young readers, including Ground Zero, Refugee, Allies, Grenade, Prisoner B-3087, Projekt 1065, and Ban This Book. A Knoxville, Tennessee native, Alan is now a full-time writer living in Asheville, North Carolina. Two Degrees tackles the urgent topic of climate change in an action-packed novel that will keep readers turning pages while making their own plans to better the world.
Session: It's Not Too Late to Save Our World | Kids Stage | 11:30am-12:15pm
Booksigning Tent: 12:30pm
ANDREW SEAN GREER
Andrew Sean Greer is the Pulitzer Prize winning author of six works of fiction, including the bestsellers The Confessions of Max Tivoli and Less. Greer has taught at a number of universities, including the Iowa Writers Workshop, been a TODAY show pick, a New York Public Library Cullman Center Fellow, a judge for the National Book Award, and a winner of the California Book Award and the New York Public Library Young Lions Award. He is the recipient of a NEA grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Less Is Lost is the follow-up to the bestselling and Pulitzer-Prize winning novel Less, in which the awkward and lovable Arthur Less returns in an unforgettable road trip across America. Photo courtesy Kaliel Roberts.
Session: Book Club Favorites with the Modern Mrs Darcy | Calvary Moravian | 1:45pm-2:30pm
Booksigning Tent: 2:45pm
SANDRA GUTIERREZ
Sandra Gutierrez, who grew up in the United States and Guatemala, is a food writer, culinary instructor, and recipe developer. She is author of The New Southern-Latino Table, Latin American Street Food, and Beans and Field Peas. Edible North Carolina gathers a constellation of leading journalists, farmers, chefs, entrepreneurs, scholars, and food activists--along with photographer Baxter Miller--to offer a deeply immersive portrait of North Carolina's contemporary food landscape.
Session: Edible North Carolina | Reynolds Place | 10:00am-10:45am
Booksigning Tent: 11:00am
ADRIANA HERRERA
Adriana Herrera was born and raised in the Caribbean and writes stories about people who look and sound like her people, providing them unapologetic happy endings. She is a trauma therapist in New York City. A Caribbean Heiress in Paris is set at the 1889 Exposition Universelle, when a financially ruined rum heiress from the Dominican Republic agrees to a marriage of convenience with a not-so-secret Scottish duke.
Session: All the Love | Hanesbrands Theatre | 3:30pm-4:15pm
Booksigning Tent: 4:30pm
OSCAR HOKEAH
Oscar Hokeah is a citizen of Cherokee Nation and the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma from his mother's side and has Mexican heritage through his father. He holds an MA in English with a concentration in Native American Literature from the University of Oklahoma, as well as a BFA in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA), with a minor in Indigenous Liberal Studies. He is a recipient of the Truman Capote Scholarship Award through IAIA and is also a winner of the Native Writer Award through the Taos Summer Writers Conference. His short stories have been published in South Dakota Review, American Short Fiction, Yellow Medicine Review, Surreal South, and Red Ink Magazine. He works with Indian Child Welfare in Tahlequah. Calling for a Blanket Dance is a moving and deeply engaging debut novel about a young Native American man finding strength in his familial identity, from a stellar new voice in fiction. Photo courtesy of Dalton Perse.
Session: Build Your TBR | Hanesbrands Theatre | 12:00pm-12:45pm
Booksigning Tent: 1:00pm
JEANNE SIMKINS HOLLIS
Jeanne Simkins Hollis is an attorney and businesswoman with over 35 years of experience in law, business, project management and complex program management. Hollis is dedicated to elevating the mission of education, equality, and inclusion. Shades of Privilege traces the legacy of George Simkins, Jr. and Anna Oleona Atkins, and the impact their family had on advancing civil rights in the Carolinas.
Session: Shades of Privilege | Reynolds Place | 1:30pm-2:15pm
Booksigning Tent: 2:30pm
KATHERINE C. HYSMITH
Katherine Hysmith is a Texas-bred, North Carolina-based food writer who works at the intersections of food, gender, and the digital landscape. Edible North Carolina gathers a constellation of leading journalists, farmers, chefs, entrepreneurs, scholars, and food activists--along with photographer Baxter Miller--to offer a deeply immersive portrait of North Carolina's contemporary food landscape.
Session: Edible North Carolina | Reynolds Place | 10:00am-10:45am
Booksigning Tent: 11:00am
TIFFANY D. JACKSON
Tiffany D. Jackson is the New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of YA novels Monday’s Not Coming, Allegedly, Let Me Hear A Rhyme, Grown, White Smoke, Santa in The City, The Weight of Blood, and co-author of Blackout. Jackson ramps up the horror and tackles America's history and legacy of racism in The Weight of Blood, a suspenseful YA novel following a biracial teenager as her Georgia high school hosts its first integrated prom. Photo courtesy of Kolin Mendez.
Session: They Walk Among Us | Footnote | 1:00pm-1:45pm
Booksigning Tent: 2:00pm
ESTELA JUAREZ
Estela Juarez is the 13-year-old author of Until Someone Listens, a true story about a young girl finding her voice and using it to make change. Estela enjoys making her family laugh, reading books from the library, going for long walks with her mom and dad near their home in Florida, and hanging out with her big sister Pamela. She hopes to one day become an immigration lawyer and a Congresswoman to advocate for the unification of separated families. Photo courtesy of Artisan Photographics Presented with support from the Hispanic League.
Storytime: Until Someone Listens | Kids Stage| 2:30pm-3:00pm
Booksigning Tent: 3:15pm
ANYA KAMENETZ
Anya Kamenetz is a journalist and the author of five nonfiction books about how young people learn, grow and thrive. Her newest book is The Stolen Year: How Covid Changed Children’s Lives, And Where We Go Now, which shows how the pandemic disrupted children's lives--and how our country has nearly always failed to put our children first. Presented with support from WFDD 88.5
Session: Stories of Survival: A Book with Purpose Discussion | Winston Square Park | 1:00pm-1:45pm
Booksigning Tent: 2:00pm
T. KINGFISHER
T. Kingfisher writes fantasy, horror, and occasional oddities, most recently The Twisted Ones and Swordheart. Under a pen name, she also writes bestselling children's books. What Moves the Dead is a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edgar Allen Poe's classic The Fall of the House of Usher.
Session: The Alternate Worlds of Tor | Reynolds Place | 11:30am-12:15pm
Booksigning Tent: 12:30pm
TJ KLUNE
TJ Klune is the New York Times bestselling author of Under the Whispering Door, The House in the Cerulean Sea and the YA The Extraordinaries series, which includes The Extraordinaries, Flash Fire, and Heat Wave. Hilarious, haunting, and kind, Under the Whispering Door is an uplifting story about a life spent at the office and a death spent building a home.
Session 1: The Alternate Worlds of Tor | Reynolds Place | 11:30am-12:15pm
Session 2: Book Club Favorites with the Modern Mrs Darcy | Calvary Moravian | 1:45pm-2:30pm
Booksigning Tent: 2:45pm
BRITNEY S. LEWIS
Britney S. Lewis was born and raised in Kansas City, Kansas where she fell in love with storytelling and the idea that magic moved and breathed in our world. After getting her Bachelor’s of Arts and Science, she worked in the world of marketing and communications for a few years before accepting a position as an editor for greeting cards where her job is to make sure to get the best words on paper. In this surrealist journey of grief, fear, and hope, Lewis's debut novel, The Undead Truth of Us, explores love, zombies, and everything in between in an intoxicating amalgam of the real and the fantastic. Photo courtesy of Kylah Clark's Photography.
Session: They Walk Among Us | Footnote | 1:00pm-1:45pm
Booksigning Tent: 2:00pm
TRACEY LIVESAY
Tracey Livesay is a former criminal defense attorney who finds crafting believable happily ever afters slightly more challenging than protecting our constitutional rights, but she’s never regretted following her heart instead of her law degree. American Royalty is a dangerously sexy rom-com that evokes the real-life romance between Prince Harry and Duchess Megan Markle, as a prince who wants to live out of the spotlight falls for a daring American rapper who turns his life, and the palace, upside down.
Session: All the Love | Hanesbrands Theatre | 3:30pm-4:15pm
Booksigning Tent: 4:30pm
CHARLIE LOVETT
Charlie Lovett is the New York Times bestselling author of The Bookman's Tale and four other novels, including his latest The Enigma Affair, a thriller with a WWII background. His plays for children have been seen in over 5000 productions. He is thrilled to be writing for children again with his middle grade book, The Book of the Seven Spells, a story of four children who accidentally discover an enchanted house that once belonged to a great magician, and embark upon a journey to find a book of magic and learn its spells before it falls into the wrong hands.
Session 1: Myths and Magic | Kids Stage | 1:30pm-2:15pm
Booksigning Tent: 2:30pm
Session Moderator: Didn't See That Coming | Calvary Moravian | 3:30pm-4:15pm
Booksigning Tent: 4:30pm
ZAHRA MARWAN
Zahra Marwan grew up in two deserts—one close to the sea in Kuwait, the other close to the mountains in New Mexico. She is a fine artist who exhibits extensively and has won international awards and fellowships. Where Butterflies Fill the Sky is a stunning and lyrical picture book debut that tells the true story of a young girl's immigration and search for home. Presented with support from Appalachian State University Academy at Middle Fork.
Storytime: Where Butterflies Fill the Sky | Winston Square Park | 11:00am-11:30am
Booksigning Tent: 11:45pm
KWAME MBALIA
Kwame Mbalia is the New York Times bestselling author of Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, Tristan Strong Destroys the World, and Tristan Strong Keeps Punching. Kwame has co-written the Last Gate of the Emperor series with Prince Joel Makonnen. The story is an Afrofuturist adventure about a mythical Ethiopian empire, where sci-fi and fantasy combine in an epic journey to the stars. The newest in the series is Last Gate of the Emperor: The Royal Trials. Photo courtesy of Bryan Jones Photography.
Session: Myths and Magic | Kids Stage | 1:30pm-2:15pm
Booksigning Tent: 2:30pm
STACY MCANULTY
Stacy McAnulty is the award-winning author of over thirty books for children. She writes fiction and nonfiction picture books and chapter books, many with a STEM focus. Save the People delivers an action-packed look at past extinction and current threats to humanity's survival -- with the ultimately reassuring message that humans probably have a few more millennia in us.
Session: It's Not Too Late to Save Our World | Kids Stage | 11:30am-12:15pm
Booksigning Tent: 12:30pm
SARAH MCCOY
Sarah McCoy is the bestselling author of the novels Marilla of Green Gables, The Mapmaker’s Children, The Baker’s Daughter, and The Time It Snowed in Puerto Rico. She taught English and writing at Old Dominion University and at the University of Texas at El Paso. Mustique Island is a sun-splashed romp with a rich divorcée and her two wayward daughters in 1970s Mustique, the world’s most exclusive private island, where Princess Margaret and Mick Jagger were regulars and scandals stayed hidden from the press. Photo courtesy Nina Subin.
Session: Ties That Bind | Hanesbrands Theatre | 10:00am-10:45am
Booksigning Tent: 11:00am
RICKY MOORE - Appearance Cancelled
Ricky Moore is the founder, proprietor, and chef of Saltbox Seafood Joint in Durham, North Carolina. He is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America and served in the U.S. Army as a military cook. Edible North Carolina gathers a constellation of leading journalists, farmers, chefs, entrepreneurs, scholars, and food activists--along with photographer Baxter Miller--to offer a deeply immersive portrait of North Carolina's contemporary food landscape. Photo courtesy of Forrest Mason.
Session: Edible North Carolina | Reynolds Place | 10:00am-10:45am
NAOMI NOVIK
Naomi Novik is the acclaimed New York Times-bestselling author of the Nebula Award-winning novel Uprooted, Spinning Silver, and the nine-volume Temeraire series, as well as a founder of the Archive of Our Own. Her recent books, A Deadly Education and The Last Graduate, are the first two books of the Scholomance trilogy. The third and final book in the trilogy, The Golden Enclaves, proves that saving the world is a test no school of magic can prepare you for.
Session: When Women Are Witches | Hanesbrands Theatre | 2:30pm-3:15pm
Booksigning Tent: 3:30pm Naomi will personalize one book per person in the signing line, plus sign any two additional books for that person.
MARC PALMIERI
Marc Palmieri is a playwright, whose many titles include the NY Times “Critic’s Pick” play, Levittown and Waiting for the Host, as well as the screenplay for Miramax Films’ Telling You. He is an assistant professor at Mercy College’s School of Liberal Arts, a longtime guest faculty member at The City College of New York’s MFA program in Creative Writing, and graduated Wake Forest University as the second winningest pitcher in the school’s history, also a draftee of the Toronto Blue Jays. Part family memoir, part medical mystery involving severe epilepsy, She Danced with Lightning follows one girl’s battle to persevere as a competitive dancer, culminating in a terrifying decline, a courageous performance, and an eleventh hour, life-saving brain surgery. Presented with support from the Mebane Foundation.
Session: Stories of Survival: A Book with Purpose Discussion | Winston Square Park | 1:00pm-1:45pm
Booksigning Tent: 2:00pm
LUCINDA ROY
Lucinda Roy is an award-winning novelist and poet. A distinguished professor of creative writing at Virginia Tech, she has lived and worked in the U.S., the U.K., and West Africa, settings she draws upon in her fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. In Flying the Coop, the second book in the Dreambird Chronicles series, three friends take a journey to liberate themselves and others and will not simply defy the status quo, they will change the nature of reality itself. Photo courtesy Larry Edward Jackson.
Session: The Alternate Worlds of Tor | Reynolds Place | 11:30am-12:15pm
Booksigning Tent: 12:30pm
GEORGE CHRISTOPHER SIMKINS III
George Christopher Simkins III (Chris) is an award-winning news correspondent and documentary producer with the international news organization Voice of America in Washington, D.C. For the last 20 years, Chris has served as a multimedia journalist covering the Black community. Shades of Privilege traces the legacy of George Simkins, Jr. and Anna Oleona Atkins, and the impact their family had on advancing civil rights in the Carolinas.
Session: Shades of Privilege | Reynolds Place | 1:30pm-2:15pm
Booksigning Tent: 2:30pm
BRENDAN SLOCUMB
Brendan Slocumb was raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and holds a degree in music education (with concentrations in violin and viola) from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. For more than twenty years he has been a public and private school music educator and has performed with orchestras throughout Northern Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, DC. His debut novel, The Violin Conspiracy, is about a quest to recover an heirloom violin on the eve of the most prestigious musical competition in the world. Photo courtesy of Glenn Fry.
Session 1: Build Your TBR | Hanesbrands Theatre | 12:00pm-12:45pm
Session 2: Book Club Favorites with the Modern Mrs Darcy | Calvary Moravian | 1:45pm-2:30pm
Booksigning Tent: 2:45pm
TUI T. SUTHERLAND
Tui T. Sutherland is the author of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Wings of Fire series, the Menagerie trilogy, as well as a contributing author to the bestselling Spirit Animals and Seekers series. In 2009, she was a two-day champion on Jeopardy! Wings of Fire: The Flames of Hope, is the thrilling conclusion to the Lost Continent Prophecy arc, Luna must uncover a long-buried secret and unite her friends, her enemies, and her own powers. Photo courtesy of Judith Saigent Photography
Session: Demons and Dragons | Kids Stage| 10:15am-11:00am
Booksigning Tent: 11:15am
SCOTT TUROW
Scott Turow is a writer and attorney. He is the author of twelve bestselling works of fiction, including Presumed Innocent and The Last Trial. Turow has also published two nonfiction books, including One L, about his experience as a law student and has frequently contributed essays and op-ed pieces to publications such as the New York Times and Washington Post. Suspect is a riveting legal thriller in which a reckless private detective is embroiled in a fraught police scandal.
Session: Didn't See That Coming | Calvary Moravian | 3:30pm-4:15pm
Booksigning Tent: 4:30pm
TIA WILLIAMS
Tia Williams had a fifteen‑year career as a beauty editor for magazines including Elle, Glamour, Lucky, Teen People, and Essence. She wrote the bestselling debut novel The Accidental Diva and penned two young adult novels, It Chicks and Sixteen Candles. Her previous novel, the award‑winning The Perfect Find, is being adapted by Netflix for a film starring Gabrielle Union. Tia is currently an editorial director at Estée Lauder Companies. Seven Days in June is a hilarious, romantic, and sexy-as-hell story of two writers discovering their second chance at love.
Session: Book Club Favorites with the Modern Mrs Darcy | Calvary Moravian | 1:45pm-2:30pm
Booksigning Tent: 2:45pm
RITA WOODS
Rita Woods is a family doctor and the director of a wellness center. When she's not busy working or writing Dr. Woods spends time with her family or at the Homer Glen library where she served on the board for ten years. The Last Dreamwalker tells the story of two women, separated by nearly two centuries yet inextricably linked by the Gullah-Geechee Islands off the coast of South Carolina--and their connection to a mysterious and extraordinary gift passed from generation to generation. Photo courtesy of Latrice Murphy, Latrice Murphy Design.
Session: Ties That Bind | Hanesbrands Theatre | 10:00am-10:45am
Booksigning Tent: 11:00am
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