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BayCon 2025 / Westercon 77

BayCon 2025 / Westercon 77

Visit the Small Publishing in a Big Universe Marketplace at BayCon 2025 / Westercon 77!

Meet the authors and purchase personally signed editions!

Friday, July 4, 2024 – Monday, July 7, 2024

Santa Clara Marriott, Santa Clara, California

Arlo Z. Graves

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Arlo “Zven” Graves lives in a salvaged shack deep in the woods. Zven enjoys hiking at night, weird rocks, and ocarinas. They’re not so good at small talk, but exceptional at Dance Dance Revolution. Their short work can be found at Dragon Soul Press, the 96th of October, and others. Zven’s short memoir about the CZU Lightning Complex fire won the Stories That Need to be Told 2023 grand prize. Arlo is also the author of Black Rose by Graveside Press.

  • The Ice Moves For No One (front cover)

    The Ice Moves For No One

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Rebecca Inch-Partridge

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Rebecca Inch-Partridge first wrote her YA science fantasy, Escaping the Dashia when she was 15. After decades of leading various writing critique groups, Rebecca became a freelance editor in 2017. She’s loved helping authors bring their rough drafts to a final draft, ready for publication.

  • Abby's Fire

    Abby’s Fire

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  • Escaping the Dashia

    Escaping the Dashia

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Palmer Pickering

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Palmer Pickering has been writing fiction since she was eight. She received her BA in American Studies from Wesleyan University, with concentrations in Religion and Race Relations. She currently works in Silicon Valley in the gaming industry and high tech. She lives and writes in the magical redwood forest of the Santa Cruz Mountains, California.

  • Dark Town

    Dark Town

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  • Moon Deeds

    Moon Deeds

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  • Light Fighters

    Light Fighters

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  • Heliotrope

    Heliotrope

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Mark London Williams

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Mark London Williams wrote the Los Angeles Times best-selling Danger Boy time travel series, among other books and anthology contributions. Mark is also the author of Max Random and the Zombie 500. He covers show business, its content and discontents, as a columnist in Los Angeles.

  • Two Trickster Tango

    Two Trickster Tango

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Kelley York

Kelley York can be found with her wife playing video games and D&D in the redwoods of the Northern California coast. Her stories are a mishmash of queer characters, mental health issues, dark twists, bittersweet endings, and the macabre. In addition to writing, Kelley is the mastermind behind Sleepy Fox Studio, creating book covers for other authors like her.

  • Glass Castles (front cover)

    Glass Castles

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  • Into the Glittering Dark

    Into the Glittering Dark

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  • Suicide Watch (front cover)

    Suicide Watch

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Kelley York and Rowan Altwood

Kelley York can be found with her wife playing video games and D&D in the redwoods of the Northern California coast. Her stories are a mishmash of queer characters, mental health issues, dark twists, bittersweet endings, and the macabre. In addition to writing, Kelley is the mastermind behind Sleepy Fox Studio, creating book covers for other authors like her.

  • A Hymn in the Silence

    A Hymn in the Silence

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  • A Light Amongst Shadows

    A Light Amongst Shadows

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  • The Wrath of Wolves

    The Wrath of Wolves

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Hannah Rebekah Graves

Kelley York can be found with her wife playing video games and D&D in the redwoods of the Northern California coast. Her stories are a mishmash of queer characters, mental health issues, dark twists, bittersweet endings, and the macabre. In addition to writing, Kelley is the mastermind behind Sleepy Fox Studio, creating book covers for other authors like her.

  • The Damnedest Thing

    The Damnedest Thing

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Stephanie Rose

Stephanie Rose is an indie author of historical romance and Greek mythology horror. She’s also a Wattpad Originals author of steamy sapphic romance, and other steamy romances. And she’s known to dabble in the fantasy and paranormal genres.

  • The Golden Flower (front cover)

    The Golden Flower

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    EVENT: Rinconada Book Fair

    April 4, 2026  12:00 pm - 4:00 pm
    Palo Alto Art Center, 1313 Newell Rd, Palo Alto, CA 94303, USA

    Hear authors, editors, publishers and writing associations talk about their work and their services at this afternoon event in the Palo Alto Art Center auditorium. The event will include a moderated panel discussion or five authors and ten individual presentations. Ten tables are available for authors, editors, publishers and writing groups and participants will likely share a table depending on registration.
     
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    April 19, 2026  10:00 am - 5:00 pm
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