Local Author Conference

November 22, 2025

Aaronson Auditorium 12-2 pm

Are you interested in selling your work at our Local Author Bookfair following the conference? Apply below! 

Application

Booksellers will be provided only with a table space for their work. Means for collecting payment will not be provided by the library. 

Meet Our Speakers 

Aubrey Green

Aubrey has been all over the world, including almost a year in China, but she keeps coming back to Tulsa, OK. When she started her degree in creative writing she assumed she’d, you know, write. But a surprise love for the editing process moved her to start Blue Clover Editing, a freelance editing business. Now she polishes the work of many writers, is the managing editor and podcast host for eMerge Magazine, reads submissions for the online literary journal Apple in the Dark, edits anthologies, judges contests, and when she makes the time, still writes. Her poetry, short stories, and essays have won various awards and appeared in eMerge Magazine, The Talon Literary Journal, The Okie Bookcast, Brio magazine and others. She’s a Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee. She tries to ensure her husband, son, dog, and cats are all fed periodically. 

TwylaBeth Lambert

I am drawn to powerful stories—whether reading, telling, or helping create them. I thrive by helping authors chase their dreams and find their path. I serve aspiring and established authors as editor and educator.

    I provide editing support across the continuum, from developmental to final dust-offs and copy-proofs in multiple fiction and limited non-fiction genres. I also teach workshops that help authors create stories, characters, and worlds that grab readers.

    Some powerful stories I’ve edited include THE UNFAVORED CHILDREN’S CLUB, coming soon, and award-winning THE FORGOTTEN SON by B.J. Sloan; THE MORTICIAN MURDERS series and AN ALMOST TRUE CRIME STORY series by USA Today Bestselling author Greta Boris; award-winning MEXICANOS HUSTLE by J. Benjamin Sanders; AUNT CLAIR’ES PET CARE series by Katie Evans; MY STORIED YEAR and other books by Katie Proctor; and WORST CASE SCENARIO and  other political thrillers and ROB AND FRANK mysteries by Larry Enmon. 

Jes McCutchen

Jes lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma with her partner and their kiddo. As well as two weenie dogs, Rocket Xavier and Fable Rose Pond. When she’s not writing, she is working at a community college as a writing tutor. She loves board games, soft sci-fi shows, and using stickers in her planner.

Jes is a Science-Fiction & Fantasy YA author whose works are full of ensemble disaster queer casts and the occasional crime and/or alien. She writes books that are nostalgic and humorous with (spoiler alert) happy endings for the sweet baby gays. (An editor once compared her writing to “Stranger Things minus the trauma”).

She writes and edits everything from YA, to poetry, to short story anthologies and lots in between, always striving to amplify local creators. 

Kate Minty 

Kate Minty is a newish author but a long-time jigsaw puzzle enthusiast. During a puzzle competition, she bragged quite enthusiastically to a local news station that her team would win the whole thing when in fact, her team came in dead last. The team was escorted out of the library as the librarians turned the lights off and locked the doors. Kate also enjoys a nice charcuterie board in her leisure time.

Maegan Able

Maegan Abel started writing at age six, when her great grandmother gave her a notebook and encouraged her to tell the story of her life in her own words. She dedicated her first book to that same grandma.

Much of Maegan’s adult life is spent in the theatre, working wardrobe on touring Broadway productions and concerts in her hometown and the surrounding area along with being head of wardrobe for a major opera company. It was working one of these shows that she finally put the pieces together and started writing her first romance novel back in 2013.
 
Maegan released her debut novel, Perfectly Broken, the first of four books in her romantic suspense series, in February of 2014. She followed that series with Peace of Infinity, a standalone contemporary romance, and Exposed, a contemporary rockstar romance. She lives in Tulsa with her amazingly supportive fiancé, who spends entirely too much of his time working so she can chase this dream.
 
Follow Maegan on all social media platforms at @AuthorMaeganAbel

Heather Ryder

Heather Ryder writes romance stories filled with love, pain, and happiness. She grew up in small-town USA, and enjoys weaving childhood shenanigans into her books. Her stories brim with nail-biting angst, realistic rugged men, and unique, stubborn women—all tied together with a bow of happily-ever-afters. Readers who enjoy genuine, relatable characters navigating life with a bit of spunk, spice, and spirit will find plenty to love in her work.