SPEAKERS, PANELISTS PRESENTERS AND

SATURDAY | 10 AM

Gold Coast Novelists Beckman Hall 404 Moderator: Lugene Rosen

• Ramona Ausubel is the author of the novel No One is Here Except All of Us, which was a New York Times Editor’s Choice, a San Francisco Chronicle and Huffington Post Best Book of the Year and a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award and the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. Her new collection of stories, A Guide to Being Born, was also a New York Times Editors’ Choice and was long-listed for the Frank O’Connor International Story Award.

• Alan Rifkin is a former LA Weekly and Details contributing editor who has taught Feature Writing and Creative Writing at UCLA Extension, Santa Monica College, and California State University, Long Beach. His forthcoming book, Wounds to Bind: A Memoir of the Folk Rock Revolution, with We Five’s Jerry Burgan, will be published in April 2014 by Scarecrow Press.

• Candi Sary is the author of Black Crow White Lie, winner of the Reader Views Literary Award for the West-Pacific, and first runner-up in the Eric Hoffer Book Award for fiction.

• Beatriz Williams is a widely-praised historical novelist. Her works Overseas and A Hundred Summers, both from G.P. Putnam’s Sons, are international bestsellers.

Spells & Chills: Fantasy and Paranormal Panel Argyros Forum 209 Moderator: Peggy Hesketh

• Susan Squires began her career in 2000 with Danegeld, which won a Golden Heart for the best, unpublished manuscript from Romance Writers of America, Susan published seventeen novels and four novellas with Dorchester Publishing and St. Martin’s Press, as well as dipping her toe into selfpublishing.

• S.M. Wheeler lives in California, where she ignores the perfect weather in favor of folklore, fiction, and the Oxford English Grammar. Sea Change is her first novel.

• Maer Wilson has always loved stories, especially fantasy, mystery and sci-fi. Relics is her first novel. It’s the first in a series that also includes short stories, such as Ghost Memory.

White-Knuckled Lawlessness: Thriller and Crime Panel Argyros Forum 201

• Lisa Brackman debut novel, Rock Paper Tiger, set on the fringes of the Chinese art world. Her second novel, Getaway, a thriller in Mexico. Lisa’s new book, Hour of the Rat, features the return of Rock Paper Tiger heroine Ellie McEnroe.

• Linda Lee Peterson is the author of two mysteries, The Devil’s Interval and Edited to Death, both featuring the San Francisco sleuth and magazine editor Maggie Fiori.

• Theresa Schwegel is the author of four crime novels set in and around the Chicago area. Her debut, Officer Down, was published in 2005. Her fifth novel, The Good Boy, will be released in November 2013.

SATURDAY | 11 AM-Noon

A Conversation with Alan Cheuse and Michael Silverblatt Irvine Lecture Hall Moderator: Tom Zoellner

• Alan Cheuse is author of the novels The Bohemians, The Grandmothers’ Club, The Light Possessed, the awardwinning To Catch the Lightning, and Song of Slaves in the Desert, plus several collections of short fiction and novellas. He has also published a memoir titled Fall Out of Heaven: An Autobiographical Journey and A Trance After Breakfast, a collection of travel essays. As a book commentator, Cheuse is a regular contributor to National Public Radio’s All Things Considered.

• Michael Silverblatt, described as “the guy authors go to when they want a serious literary conversation about their work,” is the host of KCRW’s Bookworm, a nationally syndicated radio program showcasing writers of fiction and poetry. Describing his interviews as “conversations,” Silverblatt has hosted hundreds of our most celebrated writers, including David Foster Wallace, Salman Rushdie, Joyce Carol Oates, and Susan Sontag.