Participating Authors 2010
Meet Some of Northern California’s Most Distinguished Authors
Every year, 45 of the region’s best authors in a variety of genres donate their time to participate in Authors on the Move. Below is a list of confirmed participating authors for the 2010 event:

NONFICTION

Sasha Abramsky
Inside Obama’s Brain
Mark Arax
West of the West
Thomas Bachand
Lake Tahoe: A Fragile Beauty

Michael Collopy

Architects of Peace

Phil Cousineau
Stoking the Creative Fires: 9 Ways to Rekindle Passion and Imagination
Judith Horstman
The Scientific American - A Day In the Life of Your Brain
Maria Nemeth
Mastering Life's Energies: Simple Steps to a Luminous Life at Work and Play
John F. Salter
Medicine Trails: A Life In Many Worlds
Daniel Sperling
Two Billion Cars: Driving Toward Sustainability

HISTORY

William Burg
Sacramento: Then & Now
Elaine Elinson
Wherever There's a Fight: How Runaway Slaves, Suffragists, Immigrants, Strikers, and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties in California

FICTION

Margo Candela
More Than This
Peter Grandbois
The Arsenic Lobster: A Hybrid Memoir
Monte Shultz
This Side of Jordan

ROMANCE

Eva Gordon
Beast Warrior
Eileen Rendahl
Don’t Kill the Messenger

POETRY

Francisco X. Alarcón

Animal Poems of the Iguazú

Susan Kelly-DeWitt
The Fortunate Islands
Tim Kahl
Possessing Yourself

Indigo Moor

Tap-Root

Bob Stanley
Sometimes in the Open: Poems From California’s Poets Laureate

THRILLER

Allison Brennan
Original Sin
Robin Burcell
Bone Chamber
Jeff Carlson
The Plague Year trilogy
Alan Jacobson
Crush
John Lescroart
Treasure Hunt
Keith Raffel
Smasher: A Silicon Valley Thriller

MYSTERY

Todd Borg
Tahoe Night
Mark Coggins
The Big Wake Up
Richard Dokey
The Hollywood Café
Rita Lakin
Getting Old Is A Disaster
Sheldon Siegel
Judgment Day
 
YOUNG ADULT

Sheila Keller
Desperado Moon
Marilyn Reynolds

True-to-Life from Hamilton High series


CHILDRENS’ YOUNG ADULT

Susan Taylor Brown
Hugging the Rock
Doug Hansen
Mother Goose in California
Sheila Keller
Desperado moon
Patricia Newman
Nugget on the Flight Deck

MEMOIR

Frances Lefkowitz
To Have Not
Susan Pohlman
Halfway to Each Other
Irene Spencer
Cult Insanity

CULINARY

Georgeanne Brennan
Gather: Memorable Menus for Entertaining Throughout the Seasons

Rima Barkett

Cooking Dinner -- Simple Italian Family Recipes Everyone Can Make

Randall Grahm

Been Doon So Long: A Randall Grahm Vinthology

Mai Pham
The Flavors of Asia
Jonah Raskin
Field Days