West PA Book Festival

The West PA Book Festival came about as the result of an effort to gather local authors to do combined events and in imitation of large and spreading book festivals across the country. Festival founder LK Hunsaker is a well-established author with 14 books out under two names. She has run an online writer's group for several years, owns her own publishing company where she formats, designs, and illustrates her books, and has plenty of event planning experience, to include hosting a large music-centered fest with a guest artist from overseas that brought people from all over the country to Alexandria, Virginia. Committee members Rhonda Paglia, Cathy Coulter, Gene Jordan, and Mollie Lyon jumped right in to help with the event. Be sure to find their author features on our website! Our authors live in the area between Erie and Pittsburgh, out toward Oil City, and one or two are from just over the Ohio or New York border. We write in many different genres and have a variety of experience, from new authors to long established authors, traditionally published and indie published. Along with sharing our own work, we are committed to spreading literacy information and the love of reading, to build a bigger reading audience, and to provide a fun community building activity.