Local Dad and Daughter Featured at Author Expo 25

ONEONTA — Dad and daughter authors Dana and Libby Cudmore will be among those featured in Author Expo 2025 on Sunday, Oct. 12 at the Foothills Performing Arts Center, Oneonta.

Hours are from 2 to 4 p.m. and admission is free. There will be a cash bar.

Dana Cudmore of Cobleskill is the author of books on the area’s caves and limestone quarries.  His most recent is The Cave Electrician’s Widow: The Tragedy at Howe Caverns and Dramatic Courtroom Fight for Justice from 2024. Other popular titles include Farming With Dynamite: The Forgotten Stone boom in Schoharie County, 2023; and Underground Empires: Two Centuries of Exploration, Adventures & Enterprise in NY’s Cave Country, 2021.

Libby Cudmore, a national award-winning author who lives in Oneonta, is the author of Negative Girl, a mystery-thriller, published in September 2024 by Datura Books of London. The novel is distributed in the US by Random House.  It is her second novel; and follows the debut of The Big Rewind. Her short stories have appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Ellery Queen and Tough.

The annual expo celebrates the region’s literary community. Those attending have the opportunity to meet as many as 20 authors, buy signed copies of their books and make new friends in the publishing field.

The performing arts center venue is located at 24 Market St.