2023 WAI Authors Connect

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