Local Author Showcase

TKE is thrilled to host four local authors for our quarterly Local Author Showcase. Below is info about each author and their books.

This event is free and open to the public but registration is required.

Rachael Beck is the author of the illustarted fairytale, The Girl Raised by a Dragon. was the kind of kid that read during recess and wrote novels in notebooks. To this day, she still believes in magic and fairytales. She knows dragons are real because she’s met more than her fair share. She lives with the three black cats who graciously adopted her.

Scott C. Hammond is the author of Finding the North Wind. He says life's lessons are best learned in the wilderness. He is an adventurer, author, educator and search and rescue specialist. His award winning non fiction books on lost person behavior, and his many years as a canine search specialist inform his fiction and make the stories real for the reader. Hammond says,"I want to let the reader feel what it is like to be lost and the elation of being found." At the center of his fiction books is the joyous character of Boo the-wonder-dog. "Dogs do things for us we cannot do for ourselves. In their drive to please they will go into the worst conditions and find people clinging to hope on the worst day of their lives." Scott is a search and rescue volunteer for one of the busiest teams in the US, and speaks and trains internationally to help teams become better. He is a professor at Utah State University.

John Bonner Hammond is a fantasy/Sci-fi author on the autism spectrum. John started writing at a very young age, and has taken it on as his calling in life. He places a special emphasis on lovable characters, interesting dialogue, and fascinating settings. John and his wife, Audry, live at the base of the beautiful Wasatch Mountains of Utah.

Sandra Schnakenburg is the award-winning author of The Housekeeper's Secert. After earning a B.S. in Finance at Arizona State University and an MBA from the University of Southern California, Sandra and her husband Karl, settled in Singapore, then Australia — where their twins, Kyle and Alexis, were proudly born. She considers faith and family to be themost important part of her life, adding the love of yoga, hiking, biking, and skiing as her main hobbies that keep her centered. After moving back to the United States, they lived in The Woodlands, Texas, where she and Karl raised their family. During that time, she worked on and off in corporate finance until she took up the love of writing. A philosophy of curiosity and a promise led her to write her first Memoir, The Housekeeper’s Secret - a personal story to fulfill her family’s dying housekeeper’s wish. In the process, she grew fascinated by the mechanics of storytelling and the power it holds connecting family through the generations.

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