2026 Nightcapper Autographing Reception
Sunday, September 27 - 9:30 pm - 11:00 pm
Columbia Event Center B
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Open to all badged attendees |
A room full of authors at signing stations with a reception wrapping up the first day of the show.
Author photo: Alyssa Bryan
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Kendall Annette | Tylor Whitlock Just Won't Die | Scholastic As an only child, Kendall Annette began writing stories that made her feel less alone, and has never put down a pen since. Now, as an adult, she writes in hopes of doing the same for other readers. Her debut novel, Tylor Whitlock Just Won't Die, is a genre-bending YA slasher rom-com that delivers high-stakes suspense alongside an irresistible best-friends-to-lovers romance, perfect for readers who want their horror sharp, their humor biting, and their love stories unforgettable. Kendall Annette lives with her husband and their Goldador, Loki.
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Two separate National Science Foundation Artists & Writers Fellowships have taken Lucy Jane Bledsoe to Antarctica, where she spent months in the field with scientists studying penguins, cosmology, climate change, and krill. All Hands on Deck makes use of that experience, with a novel of existential reckoning in Antarctica and beyond. After the death of her wife, retired marine biologist Sarah faces a startling set of choices in her pursuit of love, friendship, and harmony with the natural world.
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Bat advocate Niki Desautels celebrates the astonishing diversity of bats, revealing their unique behaviors, habitats, and physiology while making a compelling case for stewardship and conservation. In For the Love of Bats she shares a vivid, place-based exploration of the West’s only flying mammals, blending natural history with in-the-field experiences. She lives in Seattle with her husband, her dogs, Raven and Mara, and a collection of bat houses.
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Author photo: Lores
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Nicole Georges | The Ballad of X-ray and Koko| Holiday House Nicole J. Georges’s at once wry and heartfelt voice and her spirited illustrations bring to life an unforgettable cast of characters in The Ballad of X-Ray and Koko. The story of a girl named X-Ray, her pet chicken, a life-changing queer crush, and her journey to finding the place she belongs—from the Lambda Award-winning graphic novelist behind Calling Dr. Laura. Inspired by so many children’s classics that either feature mean adults or a world where children have to survive on their own, The Ballad of X-Ray and Koko movingly explores similar themes of agency, disappointment, and resilience.
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Rachel & Spencer Greening | Gyetk: Coastal Fusion and Ancestral Knowledge from a Ts'msyen Kitchen | Wellfleet Press/The Quarto Group Gyetk - Coastal Fusion and Ancestral Knowledge from a Ts'msyen Kitchen, is a guide to the rich food traditions and knowledge of the Ts'msyen (Tsimshian) people. Gyetk, meaning "to feed the people", blends modern culinary fusion with scholarly research, as this book follows the traditional Ts'msyen seasonal round, weaving together ancestral foodways, ecological knowledge, dietetic perspectives, and thoughtful harvesting practices - inviting readers to feast in relationship with the natural world. Rachel Greening (Sag̱u Ts’imuu Ssgyiik) was born and raised in Ts’msyen territory in Prince Rupert, B.C. She is Ts’msyen from Lax Kw’alaams of the Gispaxlo’ots Tribe, Eagle clan, and Cantonese. Spencer Greening (La'goot) is Ts'msyen, and a member of the Gitga'at First Nation.
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Author photo: Laura Friedelbell
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Daryl Gregory is an award-winning writer of genre-mixing novels and stories. His novella, We Are All Completely Fine, won the World Fantasy and the Shirley Jackson Awards and his novel When We Were Real was a Kirkus book of the year. In his newest adventure, The Porcelain Sisters, Gregory takes us on a dizzying romp through the horrors of sisterhood. A shy young woman and her deeply unpleasant—and literally porcelain—sister fight for their inheritance, taking on an impossible array of enemies, including a chain-smoking demon crow, an unkillable assassin, and a secret clan of French sorceresses. Gregory lives in Seattle.
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Elizabeth Haidle is the creative director for Illustoria magazine and the author/illustrator of Before They Were Authors: Famous Writers as Kids and Before They Were Artists: Famous Illustrators As Kids, and the illustrator of several books for children, including Christo & Jeanne-Claude Wrap the World by G. Neri. Her latest work gorgeously illustrates Nelly Buchet’s The Weather Keeper, which celebrates a female lineage of weather keepers stationed on an Icelandic farm where the extreme temperatures make their job impossible for machines to do. Haidle lives in Portland, Oregon.
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Brooke Hartman is an Alaskan mom and author of silly, serious, and sometimes strange stories for children and young adults. Her writing has garnered national awards, including honors from Writer’s Digest, Pacific Northwest Writers Association, and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. When she’s not writing, she can be found flying, fishing, and having fun with her family in their home state of Alaska.
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Barbara Herkert is the author of two nonfiction picture books, including This Old Madrone Tree, and three picture book biographies. Heronry explores the nesting grounds and practices of great blue herons. Discover the habitat and routines of these stunning birds with this up-close perspective. Herkert lives on the Olympic Peninsula with her family, two dogs, and a variety of wildlife, including a nearby heronry.
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Tyler Hooper | Beneath Waves and Shadows: The Sinking of the Steamship Valencia | St. Martin's Publishing Group Tyler Hooper is a writer and the host of the podcasts The Missing and Unexplained, which covers missing-person cases, and True to the Story, which explores the experiences of Afghan interpreters who worked alongside the Canadian military. His debut nonfiction work, Beneath Waves and Shadows, tells the story of the sinking of the Valencia–one of the most harrowing and significant disasters of its era—and an important precursor to the fabled sinking of the Titanic six years later. Hooper’s painstaking archival research brings the catastrophic sinking to life and establishes it as a pivotal moment in the remarkable history of the Pacific Northwest. Hooper lives in Victoria.
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Chihiro Howe is a Japanese-American manga artist from Kishiwada, Osaka, Japan, now living in Eugene, Oregon. Perfect for fans of fairy tales and Studio Ghibli, Raven Saga tells the story of a girl on an epic quest to rescue her grandmother in a world populated by fairy tale characters. When a mysterious boy abducts her grandmother, sheltered Wen leaves the magical barrier protecting her home and embarks on an epic quest with a prince and a talking swallow. Along the way, she discovers a dangerous world beyond the fairy tales—and secrets about her own past.
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Yas Imamura is an illustrator based in Portland, Oregon, working primarily in gouache and watercolor. She is best known for her work in children’s publishing, including Love in the Library by Maggie Tokuda-Hall and a Yoko Ono biography titled Can You Imagine? by Lisa Tolin. Her latest illustrations, in Bathtime for Snow Monkeys, offer a window into the serene and relaxing world of the snow monkeys of Nagano, Japan, pairing perfectly with Maggie Tokuda-Hall’s soothing narration.
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Author photo: Tiffany Brooks
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Julie Salmon Kelleher grew up in five different towns in Washington State. Granddaughter to an Irish lawyer, an English teacher, a farm wife, and a logger turned dairyman, she lives with her family in a Cascadian college town, midway between the mountains and the sea. Set in a mythic, contemporary Pacific Northwest shaped by Native and European storytelling, artist communes, and corporate fakelore, The Sea-Glass Shore is a fable about the power of the past and the making of a daily present.
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Lindsay Kent is a filmmaker whose work explores altered states of consciousness, a subject at the heart of her debut psychedelic novel, My Twin the Murderer. When identical twins Evelyn and Vivian Malcolm are accused of murder, they’re forced to confront buried memories, psychedelic drugs, and a secret experiment with roots in the dark history of MKUltra. As they race to uncover what really happened—and clear their names—the line between memory, hallucination, and truth begins to fracture. My Twin the Murderer is a twisty psychological thriller about identity, sisterhood, consciousness, and how well we can ever truly know the person who knows us best.
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T.Z. Layton | Doubles | Sourcebooks/Sourcebooks Young Readers T.Z. LAYTON is the author of the award-winning Academy series, which has been optioned for film and sold translation rights around the world. The author writes adult fiction under Layton Green and is also a soccer dad, youth coach, former collegiate player, and lifelong fan of the beautiful game. His latest, Doubles, is a story about redemption, friendship, love—and edge-of-your-seat, high-stakes volleyball. Catherine Artemis Griffin doesn't think her sophomore year of high school can get any worse after tragedy strikes her small Kentucky town. But she's proven wrong when she is forced to move to California to live with her estranged father.
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Author photo: Stacy Studebaker
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Nancy Lord writes fiction and non-fiction about place, history, and the natural environment. From her many years of commercial salmon fishing and, later, work as a naturalist and historian on adventure cruise ships, she’s explored the myths and realities of life in the north. Alaska Literary Field Guide is a vibrant and immersive celebration of Alaska’s wild beauty, blending science, storytelling, and stunning artwork. This unique anthology brings together a diverse range of the state’s most respected contemporary poets and writers alongside original, full-color artwork. More than 90 species and natural elements are brought to life through poetic reflections, vivid prose, and detailed scientific natural histories. Nancy makes her home in Homer with her partner.
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Nicole Magistro | The Day After the Storm: An Eco-Grief Story Sourcebooks/Sourcebooks Explore Nicole Magistro is the award-winning author of Read Island. Her writing sparkles with wonder and hope, always rooted in the beauty of nature and the small, powerful moments that shape a child’s life. The Day After the Storm, is a gentle, empowering picture book that explores eco-grief, resilience, and what it means to move forward in a changing world.
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Tying knots is one of the most fundamental outdoor skills, useful in everything from building shelters to fishing and trapping. Knots & Ropework combines simple, straightforward instructions with easy-to-follow illustrations for beginning knot-tiers of all ages. Learn about different types of rope and their uses, plus how to make your own cordage from natural materials. Follow the illustrated directions to tie over thirty different kinds of knots—from a figure eight to a monkey fist. Then use them to build simple projects for all abilities: a lasso, cooking tripod, shelter, and more.
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Author photo: Miranda Quade
Author photo: Miranda Quade
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Gregg and Morgan Olsen | Ordinary Wife Storm Publishing Blue Lakes Ranch, Idaho, 1920. A new bride sets out saucers of flypaper on the porch. By nightfall her husband is dead. Lyda Trueblood was beautiful, charming, a wonderful cook. Men fell for her easily — and died easily around her. Six deaths in five years, all traced to arsenic. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen, with Morgan Olsen, comes the true story of America’s Lady Bluebeard — the ordinary wife who poisoned husband after husband, and very nearly got away with all of it.
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Ian Patterson is an award winning author of science fiction, horror, and poetry. His debut, Transference, won the Colorado Book Award for science fiction in 2025, and is part of a complete series called The Narrator Cycle. He can usually be found on his bike somewhere in the mountains of Colorado, or spending time with his family and his two cats. In Fruits of Our Labor, in a near-future America where women have just achieved asexual reproduction, three converging perspectives tell the story of a profound societal transformation that asks who gets to have autonomy, who gets to write the future, and who that future is for.
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Jennifer Scott is a member of the Yakama Band of Indians, with connections to the Confederated Tribes of The Umatilla Reservation. The Trees Talk is a lyrical poem that teaches children about the wisdom of the trees. When our loved ones pass on to the next world, author Jennifer Scott encourages us to sit with the trees. They carry messages from our ancestors for each of us, if we just take the time to listen. Sweeping and lush paintings by Carla Joseph move readers through a journey to learn about the relationship between our ancestors and the nature around us. Jennifer currently resides in Washington state.
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A captivating cookbook for chefs, home cooks, gardeners, and anyone interested in Italian culture, Radicchio offers easy, delicious recipes by contributors from Italy and the US, including chefs, grandmothers, and farmers for using radicchio in pasta, rice, polenta, pizza, with protein, in salads, preserved, and in sweets, celebrating the exuberance of the world of radicchio in all its forms and permutations. With gorgeous photographs showcasing the connection between Italian and North American culinary culture, Radicchio is also the first in-depth book on the subject, sure to be considered the ultimate resource.
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Author photo: Ciccarelli Photography
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Sophia St. Germain is a Swedish-born, American-married author whose obsession with mythology and defiant princesses began with diaries full of stories at ten years old. She writes dark romantasy and romance with fierce, flawed women and the swoon-worthy men who are obsessed with them, always with scorching slow burn and found family. In To the Rotting End, hidden pasts, a fae realm on the brink of destruction, and passions born of hatred converge.
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Laura Stanfill is a book publisher, author, and lifelong believer in the magic of community. She runs Forest Avenue Press and is the author of Singing Lessons for the Stylish Canary, a whimsical historical novel, and Imagine a Door, a creative guide for writers. In their latest, a bootlegger's daughter falls into a world of Tin Pan Alley music and mystery in this unapologetic exploration of friendships, motherhood, and the way women care for each other. Stanfill lives in Portland with her family and dog, Waffles.
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Kyle Sullivan is an award-winning children’s book author whose titles have sold more than 500,000 copies worldwide. Kyle’s board books, picture books, and middle-grade chapter books promote empathy, inclusiveness and imagination, while appealing to parents, guardians, and teachers as much as young readers. In Hobgoblin and the Stanky Eight, it’s been years since Hobgoblin and the Stinkers saved their proudly putrid nation from a wannabe ogre king. With the victory parade still fresh in their noses, a new threat has emerged. When an anti-stink group of masked thugs sweeps into their communities, our heroes must form an unlikely coalition to once again save their stinky way of life. Sullivan lives in Portland.
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Author photo: Beowulf Sheehan
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Monica West, hailed as a "formidable talent" by Ann Patchett, follows 2021’s Revival Season with Light the Way, a literary thriller about the longing for the perfect family, hope and perseverance in the face of impossible odds, and the bravery that young women must harness over and over again, simply to survive this world. Inspired in part by the underreported disappearances of Black women and girls in America, Light the Way is both a gripping story of coercive belief and an intimate portrait of the families left behind.
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