Here is a growing list of Yolo County/Sacramento Region Local Authors listed by Genre Links lead to either author’s website, Avid reader or Amazon Author page. Some authors may not have a link and may be found in listed in the Yolo County Catalog as a Self-published Author.
Do you see someone we missed? Are you an author that would like to be included on this list? Please email reply@wfol.org with local author listing in the subject line. Include your name, genre or non-fiction topic, and preferred link if you have one.
Fantasy or SciFi
- Beagle, Peter
- Cahill, Thomas A.
- Grivetti, Louis Evan
- Robinson, Kim Stanley
- Labarga, Kory
General Fiction
- Slabach, Lisa
- Barcellos, Anthony
- Corin, Lucy
- Freed, Lynn
- Grande, Reyna
- Houston, Pam
- Joy Fowler, Karen
- Major, Clarence
- Masiel, David
- Montoya, Maceo
- Rendahl, Eileen
- Rhoads, Loren
- Spring Warren
Mystery/Thriller
- Ackley, Harry Steven
- Calvin, Kris
- Lescroart, John
- McPherson, Catriona
- Schulz, Tamsen
- Rendahl, Eileen (Kristi Abbot, Lillian Bell, Eileen Carr)
Romance
- Rendahl, Eileen (Eileen Carr)
- Schulz, Tamsen
Historical
Children’s and Middle Grade
- Alarcon, Francisco
- Black, Rebecca
- Breckenridge, Audrey
- Gough, Lynne
- Kubiak, Jeff
- Marie, Lauren
- McMullen, Beth
- Smith, Nikki Shannon
- Tyson-Arceneaux, Mary Ann
- Zarins, Kim
YA
Poetry
- Breuner, Tarin
- Coley, Marcia
- Glover, Laurie
- Levine, Julia
- McPherson, Sandra
- Montoya, Maceo
- Schwartz, Edythe Haendel
- Snyder, Gary
- Wenderoth, Joe
- West, Barbara
Nonfiction
- Acredolo, Linda – infant communication/child development
- Applegate, Liz – nutrition/fitness
- Bamforth, Charles – food science/brewing
- Bang, Derrick– about the work of Charles Schulz
- Bernhard,Toni – illness, Buddhism
- Biers-Ariel, Matt – memoir
- Braly, Mark – memoir
- Brennan, Georgeanne – cooking, France
- Cahill, Thomas A – autobiography
- Clover, Joshua – muscial genres, political science, history
- Child, Marti Smiley – music
- Corbett, Judy – urban land use planning
- Corbett, Michael & McDermott, Elizabeth – architecture
- Crisp, Tom – Winters history
- Danziger-Russell, Jacqueline – comics, children’s literature
- Davis, Mike– plant pathology
- Dawkins, Dr. Ed – memoir
- De Angelo, Debra – body image, metaphysical, pets, self-help
- DeFazio, Jeanne C – history. Christian theology
- Dewees, Christopher M. – ocean, fisheries
- Dingemans, Dennis – history
- Emmons, Robert – gratitude
- Feldman, Jay – poly sci, history
- Francis, Mark – landscape architecture
- Franck, Marion R. – college admission
- Goodman, Michael – health
- Grande, Reyna – immigation
- Hanchett, Janelle – memoir
- Hanson, Mary K – nature
- Holoman, D. Kern – music related
- Hrdy, Sarah – evolution, feminism, and sociology.
- Jaoudi, Maria – culture, religion
- Joy, Amy Block – exposing fraud
- Levy, Beth E. – music
- Lofland, John – local history
- Lopez, Gloria – local history, memoir
- Lotter, Jane – memoir
- Mackenzie, Robert – discipline
- Madison, Mike – Central Valley
- March, Jeff – music
- McKee, Sally – history
- Montoya, Maceo – Chicano movement
- Olmsted, Kathryn – history
- O’Neill, Dorothy and Jim – Winters History
- Owens, Mark & Delia – travel, nature
- Puente, Carlos E. – religion, science
- Rauchway, Eric – history,economics
- Roe, Bill – memoir travel
- Rominger, Lorraine
- Roosevelt II, Eleanor – history
- Schaefer, Dixie
- Shackelford, James and Penelope – wine
- Sherman & Hannah Stein -mathematics
- Sommer, Robert – mushrooms
- Soohoo, Ron
- Sophia Yin -dog behavior
- Sunder, Madhavi – intellectual property
- Taxiera, Joe – baseball
- Tobias, Dianne – rug hooking
- Vermeij, Geerat – natural history
- Ward Connerly– cultural, political, ethics
- Warren, Louis
- Warren, Spring – gardening/memoir
- Wenderoth, Joe -essays
- Wisner, Franz – memoir, travel
