Life happens and plans change, the following authors have had to cancel their appearance at this year's Louisiana Book Festival:

Kathleen M. Byrd, Natchitoches, Louisiana, 1803-1840: A Creole Community on the American Frontier

Emily Carpenter, Gothictown: A Novel

Rod Davis, Life in the Time of Hurricanes

Kathleen Glasgow, The Glass Girl

C.M. Kushins, Cooler than Cool: The Life and Work of Elmore Leonard

K.A. Linde, The Robin on the Oak Throne

Robert Mann, You Are My Sunshine: Jimmie Davis and the Biography of a Song

Maren Moore, Red Card

Alice Murphy, A Showgirl's Rules for Falling in Love

Denise M. Rogers, The Word for When: Poems

Candace Rondeaux, Putin's Sledgehammer: The Wagner Group and Russia's Collapse into Mercenary Chaos

Katy Morlas Shannon, Invisible Blackness: A Louisiana Family in the Age of Racial Passing