THE AUTHORS

■ Lisa Black ("Unpunished")

— 7 p.m. Thursday, Columbus Museum of Art, 480 E. Broad St.; Thurber House Evenings With Authors event, $25 at door

■ Sieglinde Martin ("Small Feet on the Run") — 7 p.m. Thursday, Bexley Public Library, 2411 E. Main St., Bexley

■ Sally Derby ("A New School Year: Stories in Six Voices") — 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Paragraphs Bookstore, 229 S. Main St., Mount Vernon

■ Andrew Welsh Huggins ("The Hunt: An Andy Hayes Mystery") — Sisters in Crime annual conference starts at 9 a.m. Saturday, 6975 E. Livingston Ave., Reynoldsburg; $60 members, $70 nonmembers

■ B-Fest Teen Book Fest with Margaret Peterson Haddix ("Children of Refuge"), Liz Coley ("Pretty Girl-13"), Natalie Richards ("One Was Lost"), Terri Libenson ("Invisible Emmie") and Jennifer Maschari ("Things That Surprise You") — 11 a.m. Saturday, Barnes & Noble, 1560 Polaris Parkway

■ B-Fest Teen Book Fest with Natalie Richards ("One Was Lost"), Mindy McGinnis ("The Female of the Species"), Mindee Arnett ("The Nightmare Charade"), Laura Bickle ("Flesh") and Liz Coley ("Pretty Girl-13") — 1 p.m. Saturday, Barnes & Noble, 1738 Hill Road N., Pickerington

■ B-Fest Teen Book Fest with Jasmine Warga ("My Heart and Other Black Holes") — festival starts at 1 p.m. Saturday, Warga appears at 3 p.m., Barnes & Noble, 3685 W. Dublin-Granville Road.

■ B-Fest Teen Book Fest with Kristen Orlando ("You Don't Know My Name") — festival starts at 1 p.m. Saturday, Orlando appears at 2 p.m., Barnes & Noble, Easton Town Center, 4005 Townsfair Way

■ Joseph W. Lee ("Scrolls From the Soul: Presents Scrolling Through the Bible") — 1 p.m. next Sunday, Book Loft, 631 S. 3rd St.