Tucson, Arizona, is famous for its incredible arts scene and creative people. This September 25th, from 2:00 pm-5:00 pm, we are partnering with a handful of our favorite local authors. Join us at our Bookmans Midtown (3330 E Speedway Blvd) location and support these incredible influencers.

Local Authors! If you would like to be featured in this free event, please send an e-mail to jamesr@bookmans.com with a description of your book. Spaces are limited and they are on a first-come-first-served basis.

Some of our featured authors include:

Kathleen Glasgow

Kathleen Glasgow is the New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces, You’d Be Home Now, How to Make Friends With the Dark, and The Agathas (with Liz Lawson). She received her undergraduate degree from the University of New Mexico and her MFA from the University of Minnesota. Her upcoming book. You’d Be Home Now, can be preordered till the end of September. She lives in Tucson, Arizona.

Weston Ochse

The American Library Association calls Weston Ochse “one of the major horror authors of the 21st Century.” His work has won the Bram Stoker Award, been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and won three New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards. A writer of more than thirty books in multiple genres, his Burning Sky Duology has been hailed as the best military horror of the generation. His military supernatural series SEAL Team 666 has been optioned to be a movie starring Dwayne Johnson and his military sci-fi trilogy, which starts with Grunt Life, has been praised for its PTSD-positive depiction of soldiers at peace and at war. Weston has also published literary fiction, poetry, comics, and non-fiction articles. His shorter work has appeared in DC Comics, IDW Comics, Soldier of Fortune Magazine, Cemetery Dance, and peered literary journals. His franchise work includes the X-Files, Predator, Aliens, Hellboy, Clive Barker’s Midian, and V-Wars. Weston holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and teaches at Southern New Hampshire University. He lives in Arizona with his wife, and fellow author, Yvonne Navarro, and their Great Danes.

Brent Miller

Brent Miller is a local author born and raised in Arizona.  Growing up in Yuma, he moved to Tucson to avoid the heat (and attend university).  His three siblings also attended the University of Arizona, so Brent is able to spend time with his family. After graduating, he published Cursed and has been continuing the series ever since.  Brent has earned a degree in Biomedical Engineering and a black belt in Tang Soo do, both of which prove useful in providing a bit of realism to the fantasy worlds which he creates.

J.D. Richards

J. D. Richards graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering and holds an M.E. in Systems Engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. He loves working as a systems engineer in the aerospace defense industry by day and transforming into a science fiction writer by night. What started as a simple Friday night hobby of reading and writing (they call it Literature Night at the Richards’ house, or Lit’ Nite) has turned into a passion. J. D. is fascinated by the liminal spaces within the broad human experience, and science fiction is the perfect medium to explore those spaces. His work focuses on characters who feel they live “in-between” worlds. The Blue Jewel (2019) is his debut novel, and he is actively seeking agent representation for his second novel in the same universe, The Emerald Princess (2021). His third novel, Beyond God and Devils, is expected in the summer of 2022. J. D., his artist-illustrator wife Corina, and their young family love life in Tucson, Arizona. They enjoy reading, doodling, and playing guitar. Their house is full of books, quiet reading spaces, a couple napping Russian Blue cats, and two rambunctious toddlers.

James McKnight

Jessica Feinberg

Jessica Feinberg is a quirky creator known for mixing mundane and magic in her paintings of wildlife, trees, dragons, faeries, clockwork, and strange creatures. She writes and illustrates books including guides to fantastical creatures, coloring books, and more! She has also created decks of playing cards, oracle decks, games, and more. Jessica has successfully funded almost 50 Kickstarter projects, runs a monthly Patreon, an online store, streams art and oracle readings live on twitch, and guest speaks at events. Blending traditional media, magic, and technology, she works in watercolor, digital paint, pencil, ink, and more. She currently resides in Tucson, Arizona with coyotes, faeires, dragons, roadrunners, jackalopes, six crazy cats, and her awesome boyfriend and partner.

S.F. Edwards

Creator of the Spiral War Military Sci-Fi Space Opera series, SF Edwards is a recognized expert in aircraft night vision equipment for military and civilian operators. His work has been praised as “able to conjure up a world in just a few paragraphs and leave you wondering what will come.” (Peter F. Hamilton). A weaver of stories his whole life, SF crafts stories in alien worlds that still make the characters feel familiar. His characters, while often having exceptional qualities, also have human failings and issues that draw the reader in. SJ Schauer has recently returned to his hometown of Tucson, AZ with his 3 sons, one of whom is afflicted with a severe lifelong disability. The boys are his greatest joy and he works hard to make sure that they will become responsible, capable young men.

Karen Papagapitos

Karen Kalliopi Papagapitos is a native Tucsonan and local author. Ms. Papagapitos moved to New York City when she was 25 upon the occasion of her marriage. During her many decades in New York City, Papagapitos worked for WNET/13, the public education network, as a script consultant. In addition, she began writing for educational publishers such as McGraw Hill, Scholastic, and Macmillan. Papagapitos is also the author of four books: two award-winning children’s books, a poetry volume, and a memoir of her first 25 years in Tucson, Arizona where she had extraordinary visitation experiences with those she called Bright Friends, who took her for rides in the desert skies aboard their space ships.

Yvonne Navarro

Yvonne Navarro is an award-winning author of twenty-three published novels and a lot of short stories, articles, and a reference dictionary. She writes in a wide variety of genres but favors horror or dark fantasy because, well, that’s just how she rolls. She lives way down in the southeastern corner of Arizona, fifteen miles from the Mexican border, is married to author Weston Ochse, and dotes on their rescued Great Danes.

Jonathan Shuerger

Jonathan Shuerger is a Marine Corps veteran and author with a passion for telling stories and making people laugh. His first novella, The Exorcism of Frosty the Snowman, was released in 2017, and his first novel, Shades of Black I: In Darkness Cast, was released Nov. 10, 2020. He lives in Tucson, AZ, with his wife and three daughters, who moonlight as domestic terrorists in their free time. Jonathan war-games, DMs tabletop RPGs, defuses unicorn IEDs and slays it at Smash Bros. and Mario Kart, as every dad should.

Tom Deady

Tom Deady’s first novel, HAVEN, won the 2016 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel. He has since published several novels, novellas, and a short story collection. Tom has several publications, including the sequel to Eternal Darkness coming out in 2021. He has a Master’s Degree in English and Creative Writing and is a member of both the Horror Writers Association and the New England Horror Writers Association.