Registration for SIBA's New Orleans event September 7&8 has sold out! Although it is closed, booksellers can ask to be on the waiting list by emailing lindamarie@sibaweb.com. Attendees should bookmark SIBA's event page, which will serve as the program and "app" for the event.
https://sibaweb.com/mpage/nola-2022

Who will you meet at the Author Luncheon?

DIANE MARIE BROWN is a professor at Orange Coast College and a public health professional for the Long Beach Health Department. She has a BA and MPH from UCLA and a degree in fiction from USC’s Master of Professional Writing Program. She grew up in Stockton and now lives in Long Beach, California, with her husband, their four daughters, and their dog, Brownie. Black Candle Women is her debut novel.

GRADY HENDRIX is an award-winning novelist and screenwriter living in New York City. He is the author of How to Sell a Haunted House,  Horrorstör, My Best Friend’s Exorcism (which is being adapted into a feature film by Amazon Studios), We Sold Our Souls, and the New York Times bestseller The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires (currently being adapted into a TV series). Grady also authored the Bram Stoker Award–winning nonfiction book Paperbacks from Hell, a history of the horror paperback boom of the seventies and eighties, and his latest non-fiction book is These Fists Break Bricks: How Kung Fu Movies Swept America and Changed the World.

CIERA HORTON McELROY was raised in Orlando, Florida. She holds a BA from Wheaton College and an MFA from the University of Central Florida. Her work has appeared in AGNI, Bridge Eight, Iron Horse Literary Review, the Crab Orchard Review, and Saw Palm, among others. She currently lives in St. Louis with her husband and son. Atomic Family is her debut novel.

E. M. TRAN’s debut novel, Daughters of the New Year, is forthcoming from Hanover Square Press/HarperCollins. Her stories, essays, and reviews can be found in such places as Joyland Magazine, Prairie Schooner, Harvard Review Online, and more. She spent an inordinate proportion of her adult life working towards an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Mississippi and a PhD in English & Creative Writing from Ohio University. She is from and currently lives in New Orleans, Louisiana, with her husband and two dogs. She was born in the year of the Earth Snake. Ask her about Gilmore Girls or The Bachelor franchise if you want to be her friend.

DE’SHAWN CHARLES WINSLOW is the author of Decent People and In West Mills, a Center for Fiction First Novel Prize winner and a Los Angeles Times Book Awards, Lambda Literary, and Publishing Triangle awards finalist. He was born and raised in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, graduated from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and now lives in Atlanta.