2023 WAI Authors Connect
Authors Connect at WAI2023 is located in the Exhibit Hall in Booth 462 and organized by Liz Booker, Authors Connect columnist and founder of Aviatrix Book Review.
Authors Connect at WAI2023 is located in the Exhibit Hall in Booth 462 and organized by Liz Booker, Authors Connect columnist and founder of Aviatrix Book Review.
Join the authors at a special Authors Connect Reading and Reception on Thursday, February 23, 7:30–9:30 p.m. at Bogart & Co., adjacent to the Pacific Gallery & Patio, at the Long Beach Convention Center.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23
1–2:30 p.m.
Erin Miller
Final Flight, Final Fight: My Grandmother, the WASP, and Arlington National Cemetery & What
Grandma Did
Karlene Petitt
Flight to Success, Flight for ...
2:30–4 p.m.
Laura Savino
Jet Boss: A Female Pilot Taking Risks and Flying High
Lynn Rippelmeyer
Life Takes Wings: Becoming the World’s First Female 747 Pilot
4–5:30 p.m.
Merryl Tengesdal
Shatter the Sky: What Going to the Stratosphere Taught Me About Self-Worth, Sacrifice, and Discipline
Cecilia Aragon
Flying Free: My Victory over Fear to Become the First Latina National Aerobatic Champion
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24
10:30 a.m.–12 p.m.
Robin Kardon
Flygirl, Angel Flight, Flying Home
Julie Clark
Nothing Stood in Her Way
Victoria Yeager
101 Chuck Yeager-isms: Wit and Wisdom from America’s Hero
12–1:30 p.m.
Laura Savino
Jet Boss: A Female Pilot on Taking Risks and Flying High
Julie Tizard
The Road to Wings, Flight to the Hori-zon, Free Fall at Angel Creek
1:30–3 p.m.
Lynn Rippelmeyer
Life Takes Wings: Becoming the World’s First Female 747 Pilot
Mary Bush Shipko
AVIATRIX: First Woman Pilot for Hughes Airwest & Daring Mary Aviation Pioneer
3–5 p.m.
John and Martha King
LIFT: How to Start, Run, and Grow Your Own Successful Business
Tammie Jo Shults
Nerves of Steel: How I Followed my Dreams, Earned my Wings, and Faced my Greatest Challenge
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25
10:30 a.m.–noon
Merryl Tengesdal
Shatter the Sky: What Going to the Stratosphere Taught Me About Self-Worth, Sacrifice, and Discipline
Robin Kardon
Flygirl, Angel Flight, Flying Home
Noon–1:30 p.m.
Graciela Tiscareño-Sato
Taking Flight with Captain Mama/Despegando con Capitán Mamá (3rd in Picture Book trilogy)
Erin Miller
Final Flight, Final Fight: My Grandmoth-er, the WASP, and Arlington National Cemetery & What
Grandma Did
1:30–3 p.m.
Julie Clark
Nothing Stood in Her Way
Victoria Yeager
101 Chuck Yeager-isms: Wit and Wisdom from America’s Hero
Mary Bush Shipko
AVIATRIX: First Woman Pilot for Hughes Airwest & Daring Mary Aviation Pioneer