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Join local authors in a celebration of self-publishing and local ingenuity, with scheduled book readings, writing resources, books for sale, and more!
Local Author Fair
Saturday, Nov. 15 • 1:00 – 4:00 pm
EVPL Central
Book Readings
Please note that this schedule is subject to change.
| Author | Time |
|---|---|
| Kim Freeman | 1:30 pm |
| Susan Anslinger | 1:45 pm |
| Dr. James Macleod | 2:00 pm |
| Linda Neal Reising | 2:15 pm |
| Mark Rigney | 2:30 pm |
| Ashley M. Watson | 2:45 pm |
| C.L. Stambush | 3:00 pm |
| Mark Williams | 3:15 pm |
| Mary Ellen Ziliak | 3:30 pm |
Local Authors
Brent Abell
Brent Abell resides in Southern Indiana with his wife and a few ghosts. Brent enjoys thrash metal and anything horror-related. In his writing career, he’s had stories featured in over 30 publications from multiple presses. His books, The Eldritch Night, his Southern Devils Trilogy, The Calling, Dragonflies, Small Town Terrors, Phoenix Protocol, Dying Days: Death Sentence, Dying Days: Zealot, and Death Inc., are available now. He is also a co-author of the horror-comedy Hellmouth series. Currently, he is working on a multitude of projects and his travel content. You can hang out with him at http://brentabell.com.
Susan Anslinger
Susan is an author with a love for storytelling, travel, and lifelong learning. She finds joy in reading, writing, and exploring new places, as well as giving back through community volunteering. Known for hosting warm and welcoming tea parties, Susan has a gift for bringing people together. Above all, she values time spent with family, where her happiest memories are made.
J.L. Bundy
J.L. BUNDY is an aspiring Christian Fiction author. From a young age, Bundy’s passions were writing, playing musical instruments, and singing. Her journey began with writing a monthly column for the local newspaper. She later began working with an Ohio-based company, Rock of Israel. Bundy and her husband are worship pastors at their local church. Bundy also works at the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra. When not writing, she enjoys spending time with her children and grandchildren. Contact the author at jlbundy@proton.me or for more information about the author, visit www.jlbundy.com.
Kim Freeman
Kim Freeman is a children’s book author from Bloomington, Indiana. She enjoys writing picture books that inspire children to follow their dreams. Kim co-authored ICE CREAM MAN: How Augustus Jackson Made a Sweet Treat Better with fellow author Glenda Armand. Kim and Glenda were thrilled that their picture book biography won the 2025 Texas Bluebonnet Award! Ice Cream Man is also a nominee for the 2025-2026 Young Hoosier Book Award. Kim is currently a Guest Teacher for the Monroe County School Corporation and she enjoys spending time with her family when she isn’t writing or teaching.
Dr. James MacLeod
Dr MacLeod is the author of Lost Evansville, Evansville in World War Two, which was published in 2015, and The Cartoons of Evansville’s Karl Kae Knecht, published in February 2017. In 2016, he wrote and co-produced a 2-part documentary on Evansville in World War II for WNIN entitled Evansville at War. In 2000, he published a book on 19th-century British religion, The Second Disruption, and has also written over 30 other scholarly publications. He has delivered hundreds of public lectures has won many awards for his teaching and scholarship.
Austin Maxheimer
Austin is a community mobilizer and passionate advocate for neighborhood transformation led and enacted by residents. With years of experience leading neighborhood initiatives, he combines practical expertise with a vision for justice, belonging, and shared flourishing. His work aims to bridge the gap between theory and lived experience, inspiring communities to see their own potential as agents of renewal and resourcing them to be the change they hope to see. Austin lives in the Evansville Tepe Park neighborhood with his family. He holds a Doctorate of Ministry and is the author of five books, including Neighborhoods & Jesus.
Linda Neal Reising
Linda Neal Reising, a native of Oklahoma and citizen of the Cherokee Nation, has been published in numerous journals and anthologies. Reising’s books include: Re-Writing Family History (Finishing Line), The Keeping (Finishing Line), Stone Roses (Kelsay Books), VIVIA-The Legend of Vivia Thomas: A Novelette in Poems (Kelsay Books), Perpetual Astonishment (Beyond Words Press), and Navigation (Kelsay Books). Cigar Box of Loss: Stories from Route 66 is forthcoming from Belle Point Press. Her awards include the Writer’s Digest Prize, the Eric Hoffer Award, Oklahoma Book Award finalist, and the Western Heritage Book Award. She was named the Eclipse Poet of Indiana.
Mark Rigney
Mark Rigney’s stage plays have been produced in twenty-three U.S. states (including off-Broadway) plus Australia, Austria, Canada, Hong Kong, Nepal, and New Zealand. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild and his published plays are available from Playscripts, Inc., and others. He is the author of the novel Vinyl Wonderland (Castle Bridge) and Deaf Side Story: Deaf Sharks, Hearing Jets and a Classic American Musical (Gallaudet). Nearly seventy of his short stories have found print, in venues ranging from literary (Witness, The Best of the Bellevue Literary Review) to fantasy and horror (Lightspeed, Cemetery Dance, and Black Static).
Cadyn Smithson
Cadyn Smithson is a 19-year-old student at the University of Southern Indiana studying Political Science and Education. He is originally from Manchester, Indiana, and attended Switzerland Co. High School. Cadyn became a published author at the age of 17 with his first book, Benji Goes to Bed. In January of 2025, his second book was released and instantly charted at #1 in children’s books on Amazon. Cadyn is passionate about inspiring the youth, writing, and teaching.
C.L. Stambush
C.L. Stambush is an author and world traveler who has lived, worked, and traveled in more than 20 countries. Her work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Cosmopolitan, Far Eastern Economic Review, Travelers’ Tales, and other publications worldwide. She has received awards and residencies from Hedgebrook, RopeWalk, Split Rock Arts, and Indiana University Writers’ Conference, where an early chapter of this book was named Best Creative Nonfiction by Scott Russell Sanders. She spent six years abroad, traveling across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia by foot, train, truck, boat, camel, donkey cart, and motorcycle.
Ashley M. Watson
Ashley M. Watson received her doctorate in rhetoric from Purdue University, her master’s degree from Miami University of Ohio, and bachelor’s degree from Purdue. She writes about haunted history, commonplace books and spooky folklore on her blog NotebookofGhosts.com. In addition, she maintains a newspaper archive of ghost stories proven to be false (sometimes humorously so) at ItWasNotaGhost.com. Ashley shares her passion of photographing cemeteries, making ’zines, collecting ghosts and Halloween decorations, and reading spooky short stories on her popular Instagram account @notebookofghosts.
Mark Williams
Mark Williams’s poems have appeared in The Southern Review, Rattle, Nimrod, New Ohio Review, The American Journal of Poetry, and other journals and anthologies, including The Sixty-Four: best poets of 2018 (Black Mountain Press). He is the author of the poetry chapbook, Happiness (Finishing Line Press) and the poetry collection, Carrying On (Kelsay Books). His fiction has appeared in Eclectica, Cleaver, Valparaiso Fiction Review, The Main Street Rag, and other journals and anthologies, including Running Wild Novella Anthology, Volume IV (Running Wild Press). He lives in Evansville with his wife, DeeGee.
Kevin Wirthwein
Kevin Wirthwein is the author of Baseball in Evansville: Booms, Busts and One Global Disaster and Black Ball in Evansville: Diamonds in the Shadows. The Evansville native attended Harrison High School and studied Journalism at Butler University in Indianapolis. After graduation, Kevin was a sportswriter and sports editor for The Brownsburg Guide newspaper in Brownsburg, Indiana. There, he won a Hoosier State Press Association Award for his weekly sports column. Kevin was also a staff writer for Trap & Field Magazine and the editor of the Zionsville (IN) Times, before returning to Butler to earn an MBA degree.
Mary Ellen Ziliak
Mary Ellen Ziliak is a retired RN and international speaker who writes nonfiction from her home in Evansville, IN. Roger and Mary Ellen have been married fifty-three years, have three children, and nine grandchildren. She owns Next Harvest Books, LLC. Like Fr. Jerry, Mary Ellen lives life well with the belief that, “all living things are connected…”
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