Fourteen SDWEG members, plus the Guild itself, were among the local San Diego authors featured in the San Diego Public Library’s 60th Local Author Showcase on Saturday, January 24. Several Board members attended the event which featured Dean Nelson, a former Odin Award recipient as the speaker. 

If you missed the event, you can see all the books with information about the authors on the Library’s 2025 Local Library Showcase website.

Guild members represented among the exhibits include Connie Bennett, Susan Black Allen, M. Lee Buompensiero, Richard Carrico, and Corey Lynn Fayman. Their book covers appear above.

Other Guild members represented at the Showcase include Cynthia Gould, Cary Lowe, Erik Martin, Tamara Merrill, and Richad Opper. Their book covers appear above.

In addition to the Guild’s anthology, books by R.H. Riffenburgh, Patricia Santana, JR Strayve JR, and Thomas WIng round out the Guild’s representation in the Showcase.

Featured speaker Dean Nelson, also represented at the showcase with his book Talking to Writers based on his experience interviewing writers at the Point Loma Writers Conference by the Sea, encouraged all participants to keep writing or to start writing. Next year we’d like to see more Guild members represented at this, the longest running event of its kind in the US.