The Author Expo 2013 is set for 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sept. 21 at the Willoughby Hills Community Center, 35400 Chardon Road in Willoughby Hills.

Local authors will be available to chat, and you'll be able to purchase books and have them signed. (Cash, check, credit card and debit card will be accepted.)

Participating authors include:

• Deanna Adams ("Rock love story first novel for Mentor rock and roll nonfiction writer" by Janet Podolak)
• Patricia Averbach
• James Badel
• Dan Coughlin
• Casey Daniels
• Michael DeAloia
• Alan Dutka
• Euclid Beach Park Now
• Dick Goddard
• John Gorman
• Michael Heaton
• James Hopkins (a member of The News-Herald's Community Media Lab, Looking Back at Several Hills) ("1850 shipwreck memorialized at Lakefront Park in Willowick" by Caitlin Fertal)
• Cathy Jo
• Christine Kriha Kastner
• Chris Lambert (a member of The News-Herald's Community Media Lab, Comics: Don't Get Me Started)
• Scott Longert
• Brian McClellan
• Rick Porrello
• James Renner
• Les Roberts
• Calvin Rydbom
• Laura Taxel
• Jane Ann Turzillo
• Thrity Umrigar
• Cathi Weber
• Mary Ann Whitley
• Neil Zurcher

Sponsors include Barnes & Noble, Friends of the Willoughby-Eastlake Public Library, Gray and Company Publising, Willoughby Hills Community Center and Zeppe's Pizzeria-Willoughby Hills.

Visit the Willoughby-Eastlake Public Library's website for more information.