A Day Of Authors - March 28, 2026

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Transforming Lives • Strengthening Community

We appreciate your continuing support of ALPHA and are happy to share that our annual A Day of Authors event is set for March 28, 2026. This will be our 33rd year of hosting this wonderful, local event. We have finalized our authors for our event and know you will be as excited to hear them speak as we are to have them.

Keynote speakers are NYT bestselling author, Lisa Unger, and acclaimed TV and film scriptwriter, Daniel Kraus. Our five breakout authors from whom attendees choose two include Julie Clark, Chris Epting, Alka Joshi, Kaira Rouda and Holly Goldberg Sloan. This will be our 33rd year of holding our A Day of Authors event. We continue to attract authors of distinction. Please see the full list here.

ALPHA members both give back to our local communities and know how to have fun! We even have our own book club! We’d love to hear from you. Whether you are a supporter or would like to join us, please do not hesitate to communicate with us via email at alpha.fullerton@yahoo.com or on our Facebook pages, A Day of Authors or Alpha of Fullerton.

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Each spring for over 30 years, ALPHA has hosted “A Day of Authors,” where prominent authors inform and entertain more than 400 book lovers. Presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, biographer A. Scott Berg, Elizabeth ... ...more

About A Day of Authors

Each spring for over 30 years, ALPHA has hosted “A Day of Authors,” where prominent authors inform and entertain more than 400 book lovers. Presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, biographer A. Scott Berg, Elizabeth George, Carol Higgins Clark, Janet Fitch, Lisa See, Amy Ephron, T. Jefferson Parker and many others have spoken to “A Day of Authors” audiences.

Proceeds from this fundraising event benefit the following community groups: St. Jude Neighborhood Health Centers, with our Tiny Togs Program, providing layettes, blankets and diapers to needy newborns as well as preschool books; Operation School Bell (a national program) providing clothes, backpacks and books for school children; McKinney – Vento providing personal care kits and birthday gift books to low-income elementary school students; Tara’s Chance providing sponsorship for equine therapy for children with disabilities; and we also provide other scholarship programs. Please see our Philanthropy tab for more information.

About A Day of Authors

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Our Communities are in Need and Together We Can Make a Difference!

Assistance League Professional Humanitarian Auxiliary (ALPHA) is a nonprofit organization that positively impacts the communities of Fullerton, Brea, Buena Park, La Habra, Placentia and Yorba Linda. ALPHA provides backpacks, books, and school clothing through Assistance League’s Operation School Bell©; scholarships to graduating seniors preparing to attend post-secondary schools; personal care kits and birthday gift books to low-income elementary school students; and baby clothes, layettes, diapers, blankets and preschool books in support of St. Jude Neighborhood Clinic.

Professional and Business Women Making a Difference.

ALPHA is comprised of professional or business women who wish to contribute to the community in a meaningful way. ALPHA volunteers commit to financially support and invest their time and varied talents in transforming lives through community programs that meet essential needs, especially those of children and youth. As essential needs are met, families are able to flourish.

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Financial support goes wholly towards providing less fortunate children, youth and adults in our communities with continued hope toward achieving a better quality of life even during such difficult times as these.

Donations are tax deductible.

ALPHA is a 501(c)(3) Corporation; Tax ID #95-6054959, and all contributions are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law in your particular tax situation. If you are willing, in some way to financially support our efforts to make a difference in our communities, please make your check out to ALPHA and mail it to the above address, or you may give online.

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Daniel Kraus - Keynote

Lisa Unger - Keynote

Julie Clark

Chris Epting

Alka Joshi

Kaira Rouda

Holly Goldberg Sloan

Past Guest Authors

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Daniel Kraus - Keynote

Daniel Kraus is a celebrated bestselling novelist and acclaimed TV and film scriptwriter. His newest novel, Angel Down, has Private Bagger and four grunts ordered to undertake a deadly mission to No Man’s Land to euthanize a wounded soldier. They find a fallen angel trapped. Does she hold the key to end the brutal conflict or a descent into hell? Inner demons tear apart the group. Angel Down was selected the 2025 Best Book of the Year by the New York Times. A film based on his highly acclaimed Whale Fall is out in October, 2026.
Lisa Unger - Keynote

Lisa Unger, NYT critically acclaimed bestselling author, released her 23^rdnovel, Served Him Right, March 10, 2026. Vengeful Ana has collected her closest friends to celebrate her breakup with Paul, but shocking news about Paul and his new girlfriend puts Ana under suspicion. She certainly wants retaliation, but there are others sharing those same feelings. This riveting tale holds the reader’s interest through Ana’s and her sister’s hidden history, ancient methods of obtaining justice, and deadly revenge. Never underestimate Ana’s determination.
Julie Clark

Julie Clark’s latest offering, The Ghostwriter, continues her string of bestsellers. The novel is set in Ojai during 1975. Daughter Olivia is hired to ghostwrite a book for her estranged father, Vincent. He has established a successful career as a horror writer. Olivia is offered the job of ghostwriting what will be his last book. Thinking she will be writing another book in that genre, she has been unknowingly hired to write about a night 50 years earlier that shattered Vincent’s family, the night his siblings were murdered.
Chris Epting

Chris Epting is a NYT bestselling author of history, travel, music, and pop culture. His latest book is Theodore Roosevelt in California: The Presidential Pilgrimage That Saved the Wilderness. Much of the book’s focus is on a three-night California camping trip President Roosevelt took alongside naturalist John Muir. Roosevelt, thoroughly fascinated, decided America needed a national park system. The African-American Buffalo Soldiers who protected Roosevelt during these travels became the first guardians of the new parks, underscoring the book’s emphasis on the modern conservation movement.
Alka Joshi

Alka Joshi, is an international bestselling author. Six Days in Bombay follows Sona, an Anglo-Indian nurse who cares for Mira Novak, a Hungarian-Indian painter living in a world filled with art and passion in 1937. While in Sona’s care, Mira aches over a devastating miscarriage. When Mira dies, Sona finds herself under suspicion. Embarking on a journey across Europe to prove her innocence, she confronts her bicultural identity and destiny. Joshi’s debut novel, The Henna Artist, is praised worldwide for its vibrant characters, evocative imagery, and sumptuous prose.
Kaira Rouda

Kaira Rouda is a USA Today bestselling author of contemporary fiction in the mystery, thriller, and suspense genres. We Were Never Friends (release in February, 2026) tells the story of sorority sisters who have planned a reunion weekend. Roxy, the ruthless former sorority president, set up by the reunion to celebrate her son’s engagement to the daughter of Beth, the student who never quite fit in. Twenty-five-year-old tensions and secrets surface. Celebrating the future is problematic when it is impossible to bury the past.
Holly Goldberg Sloan

Holly Goldberg Sloan writes NYT bestsellers celebrating family and friendship. Finding Lost, her book released in Oct, 2025, was inspired by a true story of the loss of a crab fisherman when his boat capsized in Florence, Oregon. Written for middle schoolers, the novel depicts Cordy and her family falling in love with a stray dog they named Lost. The characters demonstrate that people can survive devastating loss and grief while still finding peace since the possibility of new and unexpected joy always exists.
Past Guest Authors

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