Author appearances are subject to change

Click on an author’s photo to learn more about them and (once available) see their schedule

All authors participate in panels and a signing on Saturday. Select authors will also appear on Friday at the Santa Monica Public Library. Some authors signing lines will be ticketed for capacity and the safety of both attendees and authors. This information will be released with the full schedule.

YALLWEST 2026 is presented by Epic Reads

Featured

Victoria Aveyard

Red Queen
Fate Breaker
Realm Breaker

Veronica Roth

Seek the Traitor’s Son
Divergent Deluxe Limited Edition
When Among Crows

Tracy Deonn

Legendborn
Bloodmarked
Oathbound

Tesia Tsai

Deathly Fates

Tahereh Mafi

Release Me
Every Spiral of Fate
Shatter Me

Sunya Mara

Embrace the Serpent
The Darkening
The Lightstruck

Sujin Witherspoon

Seyoon and Dean, Unscripted
Bingsu for Two

Stuart Gibbs

Ape Escape
Spy School Blackout
Spy School Secret Service the Graphic Novel

Stephanie Garber

Alchemy of Secrets
Once Upon a Broken Heart
Caraval

Stacey Lee

Heiress of Nowhere
The Downstairs Girl
Kill Her Twice

Shelly Page

Charmed and Dangerous
Brewed with Love
Night of the Living Queers

Shannon J. Spann

A Stage Set for Villains

Scott Reintgen

Devious Prey
The Last Dragon on Mars
The Rise of Neptune

Roseanne A. Brown

Ghost-Spider: Broken Chords (An Original Spider-Gwen Graphic Novel)
A Song of Wraiths and Ruin
A Psalm of Storms and Silence

Romina Garber

The Last Vampire
Castle of the Cursed
Lobizona

René Peña-Govea

Estela, Undrowning

Rebekah Weatherspoon

Summer Official
Her Good Side

Raphael Simon

The Anti-Book
The Unbelievable Oliver
The Name of This Book is Secret

Ransom Riggs

Sunderworld, Vol. I: The Extraordinary Disappointments of Leopold Berry
Sunderworld, Vol 2: The Unfortunate Responsibilities of Leopold Berry
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children