What is a "Featured Author"

An author at at least one of our upcoming events that will have a table near the check-in table and be one of the first faces you see when entering the event space!

2025 Featured Authors (Virginia Beach and Owosso)

Amy Cecil

Virginia Beach

Amy Cecil is an award-winning Indie author of both historical and contemporary romance. Her penchant for Austen fan fiction, won her the title of Favorite Historical Romance Author (2016-2017) while her MC series has won several awards throughout the Indie community. Recently, she has expanded her repertoire to the thriller and erotic genres

K. Rose

Author of Fantastical Fiction and Romance A Mood writer for the Mood reader

Deanna L. Rowley

Virginia Beach

Deanna has loved to read all her life. She was in the third grade when she fell in love with books while working in the school library. She turned that love of reading into writing. Now Deanna can be found in her writing cave, sharing her keyboard with her furbaby, reading, or plotting more books to write.

Elise Gedicke

Virginia Beach - Sponsor

I am a full-time RVer. I travel the country in my motorhome with my dog, Porthos. I enjoy reading, hiking, kayaking, biking, and camping. Follow me @elisegedickeauthor!

Stephanie Ayers / Brie Maddox

Owosso - Sponsor

A creative ninja with a dark mind and a quirky nature, Stephanie Ayers writes all the words and spins twisted tales filled with horror, fantasy, suspense, and anything in between.