Local Authors

Sandy Nelson has authored five mystery novels under the pen name S. Resler Nelson. She grew up in Redding, California, and wrote short stories and a novella in high school. She attended San Francisco State University and continued creating short stories and award-winning poetry while pursuing her career as a high school English and art teacher in Southern Oregon.

Linda King is a storyteller, author, poet, and visual artist who has published books for a variety of readers from kids to adults. Linda is best known for her children’s book I’ve Never Seen a Bird Eat a Lemon and her adult book series, That Fluffy Bitch, as well as her art showings at local hot-spots in Arizona.

Laura Roberts was born in Oakland California and grew up in the Bay Area where she expressed herself through dance, writing, and loving each new adventure. Her years of experience working with elementary school children was her seed for Little L’s Butterflies. 

Raised on a cotton, alfalfa, and dairy farm in the small San Joaquin Valley town of Kerman, California, climbing trees and catching frogs in the irrigation ditch was a normal part of Diane Iverson’s childhood. They also were a solid foundation for her lifelong curiosity about nature, a dominant theme in her work.

A Prescott resident for thirty-one years, Amy Lukavics has always been intrigued by scary stories that explore the darker side of humanity. A lifelong bookworm who discovered Stephen King on her mother’s bookshelf, she landed her first book deal with a major publishing house at age twenty-six and has since published four young adult horror novels, multiple short stories, and five children’s chapter books under the pen name Scarlet Varlow. She is internationally published in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Iran.

Amy M. Hale is an award-winning author who lives and works on Spider Ranch, a 50,000-acre cattle operation in the rough terrain of Yavapai County. The ranch’s goal is to raise food in a sustainable manner while working in tandem with government agencies. Amy and her husband, Gail Steiger cowboy together on the ranch and are sought-after presenters of story, spoken word, and music in venues all over the country. 

New York Times Bestselling Author Finds Inspiration in Prescott According to New York Times bestselling author Kat Martin, living in the beautiful city of Prescott where she can swivel her chair toward a view of Thumb Butte renews her spirit and fires her imagination....