Author Event: Julie Berry
Julie Berry, award-winning author of The Passion of Dolssa and Lovely War, will be joining us to celebrate the release of her new book, If Looks Could Kill. The evening will include a presentation and book signing at the Provo Library, 550 North University AvenueProvo, UT, 84601.
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Author Event: Michael Walton
Please join us and author Michael Walton as he discusses his new book: BASTION
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Event Details: Author talk, Q&A, followed by a signing.
Location: Poppy Books & Gifts.
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ABOUT THE BOOK:
Ten years after the devastating Solar Gulf War, former Bastion soldier Alis has built a new home on the utopic post-war, post-capitalist Earth with refugee runner and fellow survivor Toristani Arcay Orius. But that home, too, is on the verge of slipping away.
Together, they ended the war, but not without consequence: defecting from Bastion and ejecting from her Aegis mech caused Alis’ state-installed mindjack to malfunction. Now, when Earth aligns with Mars, the Wolf emerges. And where the Wolf walks, death follows.
When a mission to finally cure the Wolf ends in blood and betrayal, Alis and Toris are thrust back into a fight they thought was over. If Toris hopes to save Alis, and if she hopes to save herself, they must finally confront the consequences of the war they ended—and the ghosts that chase them—before the cycles of history turn again and snag them in its jaws.
From grappling with fifty-foot mechs above Mars to slicing through the last capitalist stronghold on Earth, Bastion is a gripping solarpunk sci-fi epic about identity, resistance, and the courage it takes to build something better from what’s broken.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Michael Scott Walton (yes, that's really his middle name; no, his parents don't hate him) writes literary-leaning commercial science fiction and fantasy. That means he has the fast pacing and big stakes of authors like James S.A. Corey, Pierce Brown, and Brandon Sanderson, but the sociopolitical exploration and deep characters more aligned with N.K. Jemisin, Octavia Butler, and Ursula Le Guin (though just evoking those names makes Michael feel unworthy).
BASTION is Michael’s debut, but he’s been writing novels since seventh grade, when he penned a 300-page fantasy in a college-ruled notebook. His professional and academic lives have also revolved around storytelling: he has a master’s degree in English—with an emphasis in writing and rhetoric—and works as director of a content marketing team.
When Michael isn't working, writing, or dreaming of stories while he really should focus on driving, you’ll find him adventuring with his family in the foothills of Utah’s mountains.
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Book Launch: TRICIA LEVENSELLER
Please join us and author Tricia Levenseller as she discusses her new book: WHAT FURY BRINGS
Event Details: Author talk followed by a signing.
Location: Poppy Books & Gifts.
Ticket Options:
Ticket + Book: Admission for 1 person and 1 copy of the featured book.
RSVP: Admission for 1 person
Tickets are divided into alphabetical groups. Each group will be called to the signing line in order.
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ABOUT THE BOOK:
There’s a shortage of men in the kingdom of Amarra. After a failed rebellion against the matriarchy, most noblemen in the country are dead. Now the women of Amarra must obtain their husbands (should they want one) by kidnapping them from other kingdoms.
Olerra, a warrior princess vying for the throne, is determined to prove her worth by kidnapping a husband. And not just any husband. To outmaneuver her treacherous cousin, she needs the best. Fortunately, the second-born prince of their greatest enemy is widely known for both his looks and his sweet and docile temperament. He’s the perfect choice to secure her claim to the throne.
Sanos, heir to the Kingdom of Brutus, has nothing but contempt for the idea of a society run by women. Trained from birth to fight, lead, and follow in his father’s overbearing footsteps, his path has always been set. Until he takes his younger brother’s place in a drunken prank and finds himself kidnapped, carted off to the Amarran Palace, and informed that he is to become the husband of Queen Potential Olerra. Sanos needs to escape before anyone learns his real identity, but the more he gets to know his captor, the less sure he is of what he wants.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Tricia Levenseller is the #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of eight YA romantasies, including the Daughter of the Pirate King duology and The Shadows between Us. Her books have been translated into twenty languages and counting.
Tricia grew up in Oregon, where she spent her childhood climbing trees and playing make believe. She now lives in Utah with her bossy dog, Rosy, where she writes full time. When she’s not writing or reading, Tricia enjoys putting together jigsaw puzzles, playing video games, and finding tasty restaurants to frequent.
Author Event: Rachel Harrison
Please join us and author Rachel Harrison as she discusses her new book: PLAY NICE
Event Details: Author talk followed by a signing.
Location: Poppy Books & Gifts.
Book Sales: All of Rachel’s books will be available for sale at the event. However, to guarantee a copy of PLAY NICE, please choose the Ticket + Book option when purchasing your ticket.
Ticket Options:
Ticket + Book: Admission for 1 person and 1 copy of the featured book.
RSVP: Admission for 1.
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ABOUT THE BOOK:
A woman must confront the demons of her past when she attempts to fix up her childhood home in this devilishly clever take on the haunted house novel from the USA Today bestselling author of Black Sheep and So Thirsty.
Clio Louise Barnes leads a picture-perfect life as a stylist and influencer, but beneath the glossy veneer she harbors a not-so glamorous secret: she grew up in a haunted house. Well, not haunted. Possessed. After Clio's parent's messy divorce, her mother, Alex, moved Clio and her sisters into a house occupied by a demon. Or so Alex claimed. That's not what Clio's sisters remember or what the courts determined when they stripped her of custody after she went off the deep end. But Alex was insistent; she even wrote a book about her experience in the house. After Alex's sudden death, the supposedly possessed house passes to Clio and her sisters. Where her sisters see childhood trauma, Clio sees an opportunity for house flipping content. Only, as the home makeover process begins, Clio discovers there might be some truth to her mother's claims. As memories resurface and Clio finally reads her mother's book, the presence in the house becomes more real, and more sinister, revealing ugly truths that threaten to shake Clio's beautiful life to its very foundation.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Rachel Harrison is the USA Today Bestselling author of SO THIRSTY, BLACK SHEEP, SUCH SHARP TEETH, CACKLE, and THE RETURN, which was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel. Her short fiction has appeared in Guernica, Electric Literature's Recommended Reading, as an Audible Original, and in her debut story collection BAD DOLLS.
Author Event:Kasie West
Please join us and author Kasie West in conversation with Tiana Smith!
Event Details: Author talk followed by a signing.
Location: Poppy Books & Gifts.
This event is free but we kindly ask that you RSVP. Walk-ins are welcomed if seating is available.
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ABOUT THE BOOK:
Can a swipe right turn into swept away?
Margot Hart is a hopeless romantic. That’s why she wants to be a literary agent—to help bring romance books to the world. It’s also why she hates dating apps with all her romance loving soul. She wants her own love story to be just as much fun as the books she reads—a mixed up coffee order, a mistaken identity. She’s not going to tell the story that she swiped right on future husband’s shirtless pic for the rest of her life.
The problem is that her most consistent relationship over the last several years is with Oliver, a guy she keeps rematching with on the apps. They’ve only been on one date and it was a disaster…well, until the make out session in the car before parting ways. But, she keeps reminding herself, a make out session does not a relationship make. And so there will not be a date two regardless of how witty their app banter is.
When Margot gets fired from her job on the same day she meets Oliver again, her life becomes a veritable shit show. Her dream career is dying right before her eyes, and Oliver thinks she’s interested in only one thing: a repeat of the hot make out session they had three years ago so she can get him out of her system. And maybe that is all she wants from him, because she and Oliver are definitely not compatible—he doesn’t hit the snooze button, he runs five miles every morning, he reads nonfiction, and worst of all, she didn’t meet him in cute way! But in her scramble to keep her dream career alive, by opening her own agency, Oliver is there with his golden retriever energy, more steady and helpful than any man she’s ever dated. Just when she thinks she’s overcome her app bias, she realizes that maybe it’s not her who’s holding back, but him. And his reasons are more than she bargained for.
Kasie West's romantic and sexy adult debut is full of witty banter, meet cutes gone awry and, ultimately, true love.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS:
Kasie West is the author of many YA novels, including The Fill-in Boyfriend, P.S. I Like You, Lucky in Love, and Listen to Your Heart. Her books have been named ALA-YALSA Quick Picks, JLG selections, and ALA-YALSA Best Books for Young Adults. When she’s not writing, she’s binge-watching television, devouring books, or bury-ing her toes in the sand of the Central Coast. Kasie lives in Fresno, California, with her family. You can find her online at kasiewest.com.
Tiana Smith is a web designer turned novelist who grew up in the Rocky Mountains. She graduated from Westminster University with double degrees in Honors and English with a focus in creative writing. In her spare time she’s learning sign language with her hard of hearing husband and she volunteers with special needs individuals attending the bi-weekly activities for Utah County’s SNAP program.
Author Event: Allison Anderson
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This event is free but please RSVP
Event Details: Author talk, Q&A, followed by a signing.
Location: Poppy Books & Gifts.
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ABOUT THE BOOK:
Axel Ashersson is the greatest hero in Åldran song. As the only son ever born to a Häxa, women gifted by the gods with magic, he is unmatched in strength and impervious to mortal injury. But with his power also comes a curse. Prophesied when he was but a babe, if Axel ever trades his heart to another, he will lose his gifts and Åldras will fall in the war against the Sidan invaders. Luckily, only one woman has ever had any claim to his heart and he’s under no illusions that she’ll ever give her heart to him.As a soldier in Åldras’s army, Petyr Mallorysson is an esteemed warrior, a silent assassin—and also a she. For eight war-torn years, she’s hidden that fact from all of Åldras. Pet knows if anyone besides Axel were to discover her gender, she would be separated from the only family she has left, and the secrets she’s smothered for years will alight.When the High King of Åldras demands Axel and Pet’s aid, they must venture into dangerous waters, survive the mythical creatures guarding the way to the illusive Häxa, and evade the Sidans pursuing them. While the journey may be perilous, the lies under the foundation of this war may be more than Pet, Axel, or the warring kingdoms will ever be able to defeat.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Allison Anderson lives her best life as a wife, a mom, a dedicated member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and a fantasy writer. As a life long fantasy nerd, she finds it natural to create stories of her own and you can often find her jotting down new story ideas or talking about dragons. She’s spent most of her life across the southwestern United States.
Author Event: Jennifer A. Nielsen
Please join us and author Jennifer A. Nielsen as she discusses her new book: THE FREE STATE OF JAX. This event aligns with the Utah Humanities Book Festival, where Jennifer will serve as the keynote speaker!
Event Details: Author talk followed by a signing.
Location: Orem Public Library
This event is free, but we kindly ask that you RSVP. We also encourage you to consider donating to Utah Humanities (details below).
For questions, please email: events@poppybookssf.com.
ABOUT UTAH HUMANITIES:
Utah Humanities is an independent non-profit established in 1975. With a small, dedicated staff and volunteer board of directors, we offer public humanities programs across the state that involve thousands of people and organizations.
••Your donation at checkout helps Utah Humanities continue their incredible work in strengthening our community, thank you for your support!••
ABOUT THE BOOK:
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer A. Nielsen, this charmingly quirky coming-of-age story about a boy fighting for his freedom and a place to call home is brimming with mystery and adventure.
Jaxon Averett has had some terrifically bad luck. Because only the worst luck in the world can account for the fact that he has to live with his Uncle Clive Grimmitz, Aunt Helga, and their six kids in dead-end Walkonby, Kansas. Life with Jax's cousins isn't easy -- they're all bullies, and his aunt and uncle can't even remember his name.
Which is why, on the night before his twelfth birthday, Jax sneaks over to the neighboring property, floats a raft out into the middle of the hot springs lake, and drops anchor.
Jax is now the president and sole citizen of his own micronation, the Free State of Jax.
With the help of new friends, a local lawyer, and the property owner Owen O'Keefe, Jax's micronation begins to flourish. But the Grimmitzes will do anything to get him back and they are not above sabotage. On top of that, Jax is quickly embroiled in the mystery of Owen's missing brother -- and a lost windfall of the town's money.
Investigating puts everything Jax has built at risk, and when long-buried family secrets are unearthed, he must find the courage to do what's right, even if it means losing his only chance at freedom.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
#1 New York Times Bestselling author, Jennifer Nielsen, was born and raised in northern Utah, where she still lives today with her family. She is the author of The Ascendance series, beginning with THE FALSE PRINCE; the TRAITOR’S GAME series, the historical novels, ICEBERG, A NIGHT DIVIDED, WORDS ON FIRE, LINES OF COURAGE and several other titles. She loves chocolate, old books, and lazy days in the mountains.
Author Event: Adrienne Young
Please join us and author Adrienne Young as she discusses her new book: FALLEN CITY. Adrienne will be in conversation with Ruth McKell.
Important Information:
This is a ticketed event: a book purchase is required.
Event Details: Author talk, Q&A, followed by a signing.
Location: Spanish Fork Library
Signing Line: The signing line will be open for personalized/signed copies of FALLENCITY, with the option to have up to two additional titles signed (no personalization).
Any pre-orders not picked up at the event must be picked up from Poppy Books within two weeks.
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ABOUT THE BOOK: FALLEN CITY
A Greco-Roman inspired fantasy where a glittering world, a political system built on lies, and a forbidden romance come together as a Magistrate's daughter desperately attempts to escape a city under siege.
In the great walled city of Isara, political turmoil ignites a rebellion one hundred years in the making. But when a legionnaire falls in love with a Magistrate's daughter, their love will threaten the fate of the city and the will of the gods.
Luca Matius has one purpose—to carry on the family name, maintaining its presence in the Forum once his powerful and cruel uncle dies. But his noviceship with the city's Philosopher places him in the middle of a catastrophe that will alter the destiny of his people.
Maris Casperia was raised amidst the strategic maneuvers of the Citadel's inner workings, and she knows what her future holds—a lifetime of service to a corrupt city. But her years of serving as a novice to the last Priestess who possesses the stolen magic of the Old War has made her envision a different kind of future for the city. When she meets Luca, a fated chain of events is set into motion that will divinely entangle their lives.
As a secret comes to light and throws the city into chaos, Luca and Maris hatch a plot to create a calculated alliance that could tip the scales of power. But when an execution forces Luca to become the symbol of rebellion, he and Maris are thrown onto opposite sides of a holy war. As their fates diverge, they learn they are at the center of a story the gods are writing. And even if they can find their way back to each other, there may be nothing left.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
ADRIENNE YOUNG is a foodie with a deep love of history and travel and a shameless addiction to coffee. When she’s not writing, you can find her on her yoga mat, sipping wine over long dinners or disappearing into her favorite art museums. She lives with her documentary filmmaker husband and their four little wildlings in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling Sky in the Deep duology and the Fable duology.
Author Event: Mac Barnett & Shawn Harris
Join us for an immersive theatrical spectacular with Mac Barnett and Shawn Harris, the authors of The First Cat in Space and the Baby Pirate's Revenge! There will be live music, dramatic performances, and thrilling adventure, all in celebration of the fourth book in the bestselling First Cat in Space graphic novel series. And if you show up dressed as your favorite character from the books, you’ll get a special prize from Shawn & Mac!
IMPORTANT INFO:
This is a ticketed event: a book purchase is required for each transaction.
Location: Poppy Books & Gifts.
Event Details: Presentation followed by a photo op.
Signing: In lieu of a signing line, there will be a photo op with Mac & Shawn after the presentation.
First Cat merch and books will be available for purchase at the event - all books for sale will be pre-signed.
Any pre-orders not picked up at the event must be picked up from Poppy Books within two weeks.
TICKET OPTIONS:
Ticket + Book: Includes entry for 1 person and 1 copy of the featured book.
Plus One Ticket(s): Includes entry for 1 guest (max 2). Only valid when purchased with a Ticket + Book. IMPORTANT: Plus One tickets cannot be added alone. If you add a Plus One without a Ticket + Book, your order will be cancelled. Thank you for your understanding!
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ABOUT THE BOOK:
In the fourth installment of Mac Barnett and Shawn Harris’s New York Times bestselling series, the heroic trio of First Cat, LOZ 4000, and the Moon Queen take on Captain Babybeard and his crew of swashbuckling pirates.
Robot dog rovers on Mars! A nefarious banana! And a lot of other freaky stuff that really scares First Cat… that’s what’s in store for our feline hero and his friends in the next cataclysmic chapter of our bestselling blockbuster series.
When the notorious pirate Babybeard is mutinied and marooned on a deserted island, the Moon Queen enlists him as a privateer, where he’ll have to learn to rely on others to reclaim his ship—and restore his infamous reputation as the most dreaded pirate roaming the spacewaves!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR:
Mac Barnett is the 2025–26 Library of Congress National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature and a New York Times bestselling author whose books have been translated into more than thirty languages. His picture books include two Caldecott Honor–winning collaborations with Jon Klassen: Sam & Dave Dig a Hole and Extra Yarn. Among his other popular books are I Love You Like a Pig, illustrated by Greg Pizzoli, and The Magic Word, illustrated by Elise Parsley. He lives in Oakland, California. You can visit him online at macbarnett.com.
Shawn Harris’s first illustrated book, Her Right Foot by Dave Eggers, received seven starred reviews, was an Orbis Pictus Award Honor Book, an ALA Notable, and a PW Best Book of the Year. His other picture books include Eggers's What Can a Citizen Do, which was a Time Magazine Best Children’s Book, Everyone’s Awake by Colin Meloy, A Polar Bear in the Snow by Mac Barnett, and his own author-illustrated works Have You Ever Seen a Flower? and Doing Business. Harris also occasionally moonlights as singer-songwriter of the popular Oakland, California, band the Matches, whose early 2000s album art sparked his illustration career.
Author Event: Joanna Ruth Meyer & Charlie N. Holmberg
This event has been canceled.
Event Details: Author talk, Q&A, followed by a signing.
Location: Poppy Books & Gifts.
This event is free but please RSVP
Book Sales: Books will be available for sale at the event. However, to guarantee a copy, please choose the Ticket + Book option when purchasing your ticket.
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ABOUT THE BOOKS:
WHILE THE DARK REMAINS by Joanna Ruth Meyer:
In an icebound palace of magic and menace, a young woman plots to outwit a cruel king in a bracing fantasy about love, found family, and immeasurable revenge.
Brynja spent her childhood as a captive performer in Tenebris, the imposing mountain palace of King Kallias. Every night she risked death for the king’s entertainment until his rebellious son, Prince Ballast, helped her escape. Now twenty, Brynja has never forgotten the brutal king. Or forgiven him. Under the cloak of a three-month-long Winter Dark, Brynja is returning to Tenebris for revenge.
Accompanied by a rival court, including the alluring Prince Vil, Brynja poses as diplomatic royalty to barter peace between nations. No one is better equipped to infiltrate the palace than Brynja―she remembers every hidden passage like a bad dream. But her quest to destroy Kallias is complicated by her feelings for Prince Ballast, whom she isn’t sure she can still trust. And Kallias’s own quest to mine a catastrophic weapon of war buried in the mountain’s heart will threaten them all, and force Brynja to face the darkest parts of herself.
The lives of everyone she loves depend on the choices she must make. So, too, does the fate of the world.
THE SHATTERED KING, Charlie N. Holmberg:
The kingdom of Cansere is on the brink of war. Young men are conscripted from their homes, and a royal decree from the queen has made healing the only legal form of craftlock. Nym, a healer and beekeeper, is the sole provider for her family of seven now that her younger brother has been sent to the war front. But when a letter comes from the queen, summoning Nym to the palace to heal Prince Renn, the kingdom’s ailing shut-in, Nym finds herself making the tumultuous journey from her family’s apiary to the capital city. Nym is determined to fail the queen’s mission and return to her younger siblings as soon as she can.
But escaping the castle’s hold isn’t as easy as failing a simple test. Prince Renn is cold and distant, and his illness is like nothing Nym has ever seen before, nothing she could ever imagine treating. In a moment of connection with Prince Renn, Nym manages to remedy the faintest symptom of his ailment―only to discover that no healer before has made such progress. Forced to become the prince’s official healer and a ward of the castle, and with her only hope of returning to her family hinging on the prince’s recovery, Nym must navigate the castle’s cruel and twisted court and uncover the haunting truth behind Prince Renn’s illness―even as she finds herself irrevocably drawn to him.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS:
Joanna Ruth Meyer is the author of five YA fantasies, including the critically acclaimed Echo North, and the forthcoming adult fantasy While the Dark Remains (2025).
She lives in Mesa, AZ, with her husband, son, two orange cats, and a giant grand piano named Prince Imrahil. Joanna loves forests and rainstorms and stories that make her feel things, and in all likelihood, she’s drinking tea right now.
Joanna is represented by Sarah Gerton at New Leaf Literary.
Charlie N. Holmberg is a Wall Street Journal and Amazon Charts bestselling author of fantasy and romance fiction, including the Paper Magician series, the Spellbreaker series, and the Whimbrel House series, and writes contemporary romance under C. N. Holmberg. She is published in over twenty languages and is a Goodreads Choice Award, ALA, and RITA finalist. Born in Salt Lake City, Charlie was raised a Trekkie alongside three sisters who also have boy names. A BYU alumna, she discovered in her thirties that she’s actually a cat person. She lives with her family in Utah. Visit her at www.charlienholmberg.com.
Author Event: Susan Dennard
Please join us and author Susan Dennard discusses her new book: THE EXECUTIONERS THREE!
Event Details: Author talk followed by a signing.
Location: Poppy Books & Gifts.
This event is free but we kindly ask that you RSVP. Walk-ins are welcomed if seating is available.
Ticket Options:
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ABOUT THE BOOK:
Freddie Gellar didn’t mean to get half the rival high school arrested. She’d simply heard shrieks coming from the woods, so she’d called the cops like any good human would do. How was she supposed to know it was just kids partying?Except the next day, a body is found. And while the local sheriff might call it suicide, Freddie’s instincts tell her otherwise. So, like the aspiring sleuth (and true X-Files aficionado) she is, Freddie sets out to prove there’s a murderer at large.But her investigation is quickly disrupted by the rivalry between her school and the school of partying teens she got arrested. For over twenty years now, the two student bodies have had an ongoing prank war, and Freddie’s failed attempt at Good Samaritanism has upped the ante. Big time. Worse, the clever—and gorgeous—leader of the rival prank squad has set his sights on Freddie.As more pranks unfurl, more bodies also start piling up in the forest. But it’s the supernatural warning signs around town—each plucked straight from an old forgotten poem called “The Executioners Three”—that worry Freddie the most. She knows the poem and its blood curse can’t be real, but she’s quickly running out of time to prove it.Because the murderer—or executioners?—knows she’s onto them now, and their next target might just be Freddie.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Susan Dennard is the award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Luminaries trilogy, the Witchlands series, and many more books and tales beyond. Her stories have been translated into tens of languages all over the world.
Before becoming an author, she got to travel globally with her M.Sc. in marine biology. She also runs the popular newsletter for writers, the Misfits and Daydreamers. When not writing or teaching writing, she can be found playing dress up with her daughter or mashing buttons on one of her way too many consoles.
Author Event: RACHEL MICHELLE WILSON
Please join us and author/ illustrator Rachel Michelle Wilson as she discusses her new book: TO CATCH A GHOST.
Event Details:
A reading followed by an interactive drawing activity, a brief show-and-tell, and a signing/photo op to wrap it up! This event is intended for kids 8 and under but ALL picture book lovers are welcome!
This event is free (with an option to pre-order the book at checkout) but we kindly ask that you RSVP. Walk-ins are welcomed if seating is available.
For questions, please email: events@poppybookssf.com.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
A charming and humorous tale about a new girl who is determined to stand out at show-and-tell... by catching a ghost!
''Hauntingly good -- quirky, amusing, and deeply felt.'' -- Kirkus Reviews
Bringing nothing to show and tell is like wearing shoes without socks.
It stinks.
So, when all you got is nothing, you need to catch yourself a something.
And if you've got gumption, that something could be a ghost.
Show-and-tell isn’t for the faint of heart, so grab your camera, flashlight, and backpack -- it’s time to catch yourself a ghost! Once you find a good one, spend some quality time together. This will provide all the information you need to build the perfect ghost trap. It will also probably complicate things. So, when the moment finally arrives, you may be confident you can catch a ghost...but can you catch a friend?
A ghostly good tale about the high stakes of show-and-tell, unexpected friendships, and accepting the unknown -- brought to life with Rachel Michelle Wilson's playful and heartfelt illustrations.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Rachel Michelle Wilson is a children’s book author-illustrator with a sweet tooth and a dash of sass. She loves creating funny stories with emotional layers, crafting a playful relationship between words and art, and drawing mischievous characters with big hearts. Books are her favorite way to connect with people.
She was named one of Publisher’s Weekly Fall 2024 Children’s Flying Starts, and her debut picture book HOW TO PEE YOUR PANTS: THE RIGHT WAY (Macmillan) was selected as one of Kirkus Reviews Best Picture Books of 2024 and an ALSC Notable Children’s Book. It received starred reviews from Kirkus, Publisher’s Weekly, Booklist, and School Library Journal. Her next picture book TO CATCH A GHOST (Scholastic) will be published July 2025.
When Rachel is not making books, you can find her puzzling over a logic problem, hosting a living room dance party, or paddle boarding near her home in Washington state with her husband and dog.
She is represented byLindsay Auld at Writers House.
Author Event: C.M Cornwall
Please join us and author C.M Cornwell as she discusses her new book: THE MEMORY SPINNER
Event Details: Author talk followed by a signing.
Location: Poppy Books & Gifts.
This event is free but we kindly ask that you RSVP. Walk-ins are welcomed if seating is available.
For questions, please email: events@poppybookssf.com.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
A new middle grade fantasy about a forgetful young girl who is desperate to save the memories of her deceased mother. Perfect for fans of Enola Holmes, A Wolf for a Spell, and Ravenfall.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
C. M . Cornwell spent her childhood reading, climbing trees, and brewing imaginary potions with her seven siblings in the San Francisco Bay Area. After graduating with a degree in English literature from Utah Valley University, she moved to Pennsylvania, where she writes whimsical middle-grade fantasy. The Memory Spinner is her debut novel.
Author Event: Carissa Broadbent
We are extremely excited to welcome Carissa Broadbent as she discusses her new book: The Fallen and the Kiss of Dusk. Carissa will be in conversation with LJ Andrews!
Event Details: Author talk followed by a signing.
Location: Spanish Fork High School
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About the Book:
New York Times bestselling author and BookTok sensation Carissa Broadbent returns with a brand-new novel in the Crowns of Nyaxia series, The Fallen and the Kiss of Dusk.
Mische made the ultimate sacrifice to save those she loves, and plunged the world into eternal night. Now, imprisoned by the gods and obsessed with revenge, Asar is desperate to find her again.
When a goddess offers them a final path to redemption, and back to each other, Asar and Mische embark on an extraordinary mission. Together, they must seize the power of the god of death so Asar may do the impossible: ascend to true divinity.
Their journey will take them through mortal and immortal realms, alongside both old friends and ruthless enemies. But as the underworld teeters on the brink of collapse and the gods prepare for war, Asar and Mische must decide what they are willing to sacrifice for the power to defy death. In a game of vengeful gods and ancient betrayals, there are some debts that even love may not be able to repay.
About the Authors:
Carissa Broadbent has been concerning teachers and parents with mercilessly grim tales since she was roughly nine years old. Since then, her stories have gotten (slightly) less depressing and (hopefully a lot?) more readable. Today, she writes novels that blend epic fantasy plots with a heaping dose of romance. She lives with her husband, her son, and one perpetually skeptical cat in Rhode Island.
LJ Andrews is a USA Today bestselling author of fantasy romance. She mystically brings to life worlds of dark Nordic and Viking myths bound by conflicts that bring together impassioned heroes and heroines. In her non-author moments, she is courageously corralling her four children through the myriad of life activities that involves, along with spending time with her favorite hero, her husband. Add two high-maintenance dogs and a sassy conure to the mix, and that sums it up. LJ Andrews thrives in the Rocky Mountains where she lives in Utah.
About LJ’s Newest Book: The Ever King
They stole his crown. So he stole their daughter…
For years, Erik, the scarred king of the Ever Kingdom, has thought of nothing but vengeance against the man who killed his father and trapped him beneath the waves, making him a prisoner in his own realm.
Until his enemy’s daughter unintentionally breaks the chains on the Ever, and Erik makes her the unwitting pawn in his vicious game of revenge.
She’s innocent. He’s vicious. But he will take back what he lost, no matter the price.
Unless she steals his heart first.
Author Event: Veeda Bybee
Please join us and author Veeda Bybee as she discusses her new book: TEAM AWKWARD: LEAH VS ART!
Event Details: Author talk followed by a signing.
Location: Poppy Books & Gifts.
This event is free but we kindly ask that you RSVP. Walk-ins are welcomed if seating is available.
RSVP: Admission for 1.
For questions, please email: events@poppybookssf.com.
ABOUT THE BOOK:Leah’s ambitious extracurricular plans cause trouble in this second book in the Team Awkward middle grade series that’s The Baby-Sitters Club meets Dork Diaries.How organized, driven Leah was born into her family, she’ll never know. They’re as different as can be. For example, while she’s trying to finish unpacking boxes from their move and get to bed at a decent time, her parents are listening to indie rock records and eating ice cream sundaes. Sometimes it feels like she’s the only responsible one in the house!So when her parents sign her up for art club—to “loosen her up” and “get her creative juices flowing”—Leah decides to ditch in favor of Quiz Bowl, which meets at the same time. But as she secretly attends Quiz Bowl and lies to her parents, her competitive spirit begins to take over, threatening her scheme and her friendships.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Veeda Bybee is an acclaimed author of fiction and nonfiction. She graduated from Brigham Young University with a BA in Communications: Print Journalism and holds an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is the author of several books for young readers including Shining a Light: Celebrating 40 Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Who Changed the World, coauthor of the Team Awkward series and the cookbook A Few of My Favorite Things: Recipes Inspired by Family-Friendly Musicals. Veeda lives in Las Vegas, Nevada with her family where she reads, writes, and bakes.
Author Event: Sarah Beth Durst
Please join us and author Sarah discusses hernew book: THE ENCHANTED GREENHOUSE. Sarah will be will be conversation with Tricia Levenseller.
Event Details: The event will open with an author talk, followed by a Q&A, and conclude with a book signing.
Location: Springville Library
Ticket Options:
Ticket + Book: Admission for 1 person and 1 copy of the featured book.
For questions, please email: events@poppybookssf.com.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
DELUXE EDITION—a gorgeous hardcover edition featuring beautiful mint green sprayed edges!
New York Times bestselling author Sarah Beth Durst invites you to her new standalone novel set in the world of The Spellshop! Follow her to The Enchanted Greenhouse, a cozy fantasy nestled on a far-away island brimming with singing flowers, honey cakes, and honeyed love. The hardcover edition features beautiful sprayed edges.
Terlu Perna broke the law because she was lonely. She cast a spell and created a magically sentient spider plant. As punishment, she was turned into a wooden statue and tucked away into an alcove in the North Reading Room of the Great Library of Alyssium.
This should have been the end of her story . . . Yet one day, Terlu wakes in the cold of winter on a nearly-deserted island full of hundreds of magical greenhouses. She’s starving and freezing, and the only other human on the island is a grumpy gardener. To her surprise, he offers Terlu a place to sleep, clean clothes, and freshly baked honey cakes—at least until she’s ready to sail home.
But Terlu doesn’t want to return home, and as she grows closer with the unwittingly charming gardener, Yarrow, she learns that the magic that sustains the greenhouses is failing—causing the death of everything within them. Terlu knows she must help, even if that means breaking the law again.
This time, though, she isn’t alone. Assisted by Yarrow and a sentient rose, Terlu must unravel the secrets of a long-dead sorcerer if she wants to save the island—and have a fresh chance at happiness and love.
Funny, kind, and forgiving, The Enchanted Greenhouse is a story about giving second chances—to others and to yourself.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Sarah Beth Durst is the New York Times bestselling author of over twenty-five books for adults, teens, and kids, including cozy fantasy The Spellshop. She's been awarded an American Library Association Alex Award, as well as a Mythopoeic Fantasy Award. Several of her books have been optioned for film/television, including Drink Slay Love, which was made into a TV movie and was a question on Jeopardy! She lives in Stony Brook, New York, with her husband, her children, and her ill-mannered cat.
ABOUT TRICIA:
Tricia Levenseller is the #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of eight YA romantasies, including the Daughter of the Pirate King duology and The Shadows between Us. Her books have been translated into twenty languages and counting.
Tricia grew up in Oregon, where she spent her childhood climbing trees and playing make believe. She now lives in Utah with her bossy dog, Rosy, where she writes full time. When she’s not writing or reading, Tricia enjoys putting together jigsaw puzzles, playing video games, and finding tasty restaurants to frequent.
Author Event: Emily Paxman
Please join us and author Emily Paxman as she discusses her new book: DEATH ON THE CALDERA
Event Details: Author talk followed by a signing.
Location: Poppy Books & Gifts.
This event is free but we kindly ask that you RSVP. Walk-ins are welcomed if seating is available.
For questions, please email: events@poppybookssf.com.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
The Linde siblings—Kellen, Davina, and Morel—are anxious to return to the kingdom of Halgyr before their father dies, leaving Kellen to assume the throne as king. They book tickets on a luxury express train, expecting a swift journey home—but disaster strikes when the train engine explodes, stranding the siblings atop a caldera bubbling with volcanic magic.
The crash triggers Davina’s latent witch powers, but her magic disrupts her ability to remember what she was doing when the explosion took place. While a witch would be the prime suspect for the catastrophe, the only ones who knew Davina might become one are her brothers—who never warned her. And, to add insult to injury, somebody is bumping off the surviving train crew and passengers. But it can’t be Davina, can it?
While the remaining passengers try to determine who sabotaged the engine and catch the killer, the fractured siblings attempt to stay one step ahead, concealing not only Davina’s powers but their own secrets. Luckily, they aren’t the only shifty characters on the train…
A thrilling blend of classic murder mystery and fantasy for those who love Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile every bit as much as Fourth Wing and A Court of Thorns and Roses.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Emily Paxman is an author and artist from Vancouver Island in beautiful British Columbia, Canada. She’s a huge fan of gardening, cats, watercolour painting, and several other hobbies that befit an octogenarian. She has her Master’s of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Chatham University, has written for indie video game company Wizard Games, and splits her time (unevenly) between creating comics and writing novels. You can read her webcomic, Neptune Bay, on Webtoon. Death on the Caldera is her debut novel.
Author Event: Jennifer K. Lambert
Please join use and author Jennifer K. Lambert as she discusses her new book: NEVER THE ROSES. Jennifer will be conversation with Alexandra Kennington
Event Details: Author talk followed by a signing.
Location: Spanish Fork Library, Heritage Room.
Ticket Options:
Ticket + Book: Admission for 1 person and 1 copy of NEVER THE ROSES.
Ticket + Gift Card: Admission for 1 person and a $5.00 gift card to Poppy Books & Gifts. Gift cards will be distributed at the event.
For questions, please email: events@poppybookssf.com.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jennifer K. Lambert lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with her husband of over thirty years, his chocolate-lab assistance dog, two Maine coon cats who assist no one, and plentiful free-range lizards. Her high fantasy novel, Never the Roses, fell on her from out of the sky and became a dream come true. She also writes under the name Jeffe Kennedy, where she is a multi-award-winning and bestselling author primarily in epic fantasy romance, and is a Past-President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA). She is represented by Sarah Younger of Nancy Yost Literary Agency.
ABOUT NEVER THE ROSES
UNSTOPPABLE WAR. UNSPEAKABLE SINS. IMPOSSIBLE LOVE.
The Dread Sorceress Oneira has retired. She’s exhausted from fighting the endless wars of kings and queens, and has long accepted that her death is near. Alone at last but for a few uninvited companions—a near-mythical wolf, a goddess’s avatar, and a feline that embodies magic itself—Oneira realizes that she’s bored. On a whim, or perhaps at the behest of fate, she makes an unlikely trip to the most extensive library in existence: the home of her most powerful rival, the sorcerer Stearanos.
By recklessly stealing a book from him, Oneira inadvertently initiates a forbidden correspondence. Taunting notes and clever retorts reveal a connection neither has found—nor could ever find—in any other.
But Oneira soon learns that Stearanos, bound to a vile king, is tasked with waging war on the queen she once served. A relationship with him is far too dangerous to pursue despite their mutual desire—and yet, Oneira can’t seem to stay away.
A bond with Stearanos could alight the long-extinct flame of life within her...or it could destroy her entirely.
Author Event:Jessica Scarlett
Please join us and author Jessica Scarlett as she discusses her new book: TOWN OF SHADOWS.
Event Details: Author talk followed by a signing.
Location: Poppy Books & Gifts.
This event is free but we kindly ask that you RSVP. Walk-ins are welcomed if seating is available.
For questions, please email: events@poppybookssf.com.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Eighteen-year-old Dorothy St. James can’t control her magic. To avoid arrest, she locks herself at home and buries her nose in her experiments. But a kidnapper called the Rook is on the loose, and his victims keep turning up insane. When Dorothy’s father is taken, she must exchange her beakers for bravery and find the Rook’s trail—the problem is, only one person ever has: a mysterious masked hero.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Jessica Scarlett writes amazing books and lame author bios. She hates the pressure of encapsulating everything about herself in a hundred words or less, because she’s too divergent, dynamic, and different for that. And simultaneously not that interesting.
She is the author of the Wycliffe Family Series, Slanted London series, and a couple plays. When not writing, she loves composing music, laughing with her four kids, or doing life on a ranch in Utah with her cinnamon-roll husband.
Local Author Signing Day!
We are excited to be hosting our next local author signing day on June 27th!
If you are an indie or small press author, visit the link below to apply!
Or come support your local authors from 11:00 - 1:00!
Author Event:Yamile Saied Méndez
Please join us and author Yamile Mendez as she discusses her new book: ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROME!
Event Details: Author talk followed by a signing.
Location: Poppy Books & Gifts.
Ticket + Book: Admission for 1 person and 1 copy of the featured book.
For questions, please email: events@poppybookssf.com.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
What happens when you fall hard for your fallback? In this luminous love story, a young woman who’s spent years traveling the globe to outrun her own grief faces a momentous decision on her 33rd birthday...
A moving story about wanderlust, loss, hope, and the special magic of finding love in unexpected places—at just the right time - for readers of Elena Armas, Emily Henry and Mia Sosa, from the acclaimed author of the Reese Witherspoon YA Book Club Pick Furia.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Yamile (sha-MEE-lay) Saied Méndez is the author of many books for young readers and adults, including Furia, a Reese’s YA Book Club selection and the 2021 Inaugural Pura Belpré Young Adult Gold Medalist. Her books have received many accolades such as the Junior Library Guild Gold Standard, Whitney Award, Cybils Award, Américas Award, Bank Street Spanish Language Book Awards, among others.
They have also been featured in the Best of Year lists of the New York City Public Library Library, Salt Lake Public Library Library, Kirkus, Publishers Weekly and those of many states’.
She was born and raised in Rosario, Argentina, but has lived most of her life in a lovely valley surrounded by mountains in Utah. An inaugural Walter Dean Myers Grant recipient, she’s also a graduate of Voices of Our Nations (VONA) and the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA Writing for Children’s and Young Adult program. Yamile is also a founding member of Las Musas, the first collective of women and nonbinary Latine authors. She taught herself English with a Spanish/English dictionary, and now has been faculty at TinHouse Workshop and a keynote speaker at The Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Kid Author Market
Come support our next generation of authors!!
If you’d like to sing your child up:
Do you have a young storyteller at home?
Does your child love writing stories, drawing pictures, or creating their own books?
Have they already made a book or dreamed of making one AND selling it?
If so, we’d love to have them be part of our KID AUTHOR MARKET!
To sign your child up, click here!
🚨 SPACE IS LIMITED — PLEASE ONLY REGISTER IF YOU ARE 100% PLANNING TO ATTEND. If you are unable to attend please let us know as soon as possible.
📌 IMPORTANT DETAILS FOR PARENTS:
This event is intended for kid authors to sell their homemade books.
Each kid Author must be accompanied by a parent or guardian for the entire event.
Kid authors (with help from a parent) are responsible for handling their own sales. Please bring small bills for cash transactions and/or be prepared to accept Venmo.
Each kid author will be provided with a sign featuring their name, age and the genre they write in.
Each kid author will have their own 4' table (tablecloth included) or share a 6' table with another kid author. Chairs will be provided as well as two book stands to display their books.
Do not bring other items to sell besides hand crafted, kid author books.
Please, no table decorations, we'd like to keep the focus on the books.
Price point suggestion: $2.00 - $5.00.
✏️ HOW TO PREPARE FOR THE EVENT:
Create!
Whether it’s a picture book, short story, comic, flip book, or a collection of poems—anything goes. Get to writing, be creative, and have fun!
Make copies.
Books can be handwritten (and any size), photocopied, or printed at home—whatever works best! Staple them together, spiral bind them, or sew them with a sewing machine—however you'd like. Just be sure to have a few copies ready to sell. (If you plan to have copies made, we suggest printing with JMart in Spanish Fork.)
Join us for setup.
Arrive at the store on Saturday, June 21st at 9:30 AM with your books that are ready to sell!
Author Event: Cass Biehn
Please join us and author Cass Biehn as they discusses thier new book: VESUVIUS
Event Details: Author talk followed by a signing.
Location: Poppy Books & Gifts.
Ticket Options:
Ticket + Book: Admission for 1 person and 1 copy of the featured book.
RSVP: Admission for 1.
For questions, please email: events@poppybookssf.com.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
They Both Die at the End meets The Song of Achilles in VESUVIUS, a queer YA Historical Fantasy.
Set in Pompeii days before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, two boys—Felix and Loren—must grapple with their closely-guarded secrets and untangle their fates to make it out of the burning city alive.
This is a meet-cute with an explosive fallout.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Cass Biehn (they/them) writes messy queer characters in messier situations—and always with angsty kissing.
They hold a Master of Library Science from Aberystwyth University in Wales and currently live in the Utah desert, where they split their time between cosplaying and wrangling their dogs.
Author Event: Rachel Nickle
Please join author Rachel Nickel and us as she discusses her new book, A Love Undivided!
This event is free.
Author Event: Allison Anderson
Please join us and author ALLISON ANDERSON as she discusses her new book: THE FATED MAGE.
Event Details: Author talk followed by a signing.
Location: Poppy Books & Gifts.
This event is free but we kindly ask that you RSVP. Walk-ins are welcomed if seating is available.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
The war ends here.
Paulo MacGregor cares for nothing besides changing Laurel’s future and convincing her to trust him. After the rebels took the capital, fleeing to Iatrus Castle, his home, seemed the only option. However, even though he’s brought Laurel to his home, fate has other plans. Not only are Laurel’s convictions not to trust him deepening, but both their pasts are catching up with them. The rebels are coming to Iatrus Castle and there’s little Paulo can do to stop fate from unfolding.
Laurel Flumen absolutely can’t trust Paulo. Not only had he kept her from accomplishing her mission to kill Olympia’s king, but he also is the reason she had to leave her sister behind. If Paulo had never involved himself in her life, she would never have betrayed Aspen, she wouldn’t be stuck in the cursed kingdom of Olympia, and she certainly would have never ended up on this side of a war she never wanted to be a part of.
In this epic conclusion of The Cartographer’s War, Paulo and Laurel must come together to defeat not only the rebellion trying to tear down the kingdom but also change the very strings of fate itself.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Allison Anderson lives her best life as a wife, a mom, a dedicated member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and a fantasy writer. As a life long fantasy nerd, she finds it natural to create stories of her own and you can often find her jotting down new story ideas or talking about dragons. She’s spent most of her life across the southwestern United States.
Author Event: TIA WILLIAMS
Please join us and author Tia Williams as she discusses her new book: AUDRE & BASH ARE JUST FRIENDS. Jennifer will be conversation with Jenna Evans Welch.
Event Details: Author talk followed by a signing.
Location: Poppy Books & Gifts.
Ticket Options:
Ticket + Book: Admission for 1 person and 1 copy of AUDRE & BASH ARE JUST FRIENDS.
Ticket + Gift Card: Admission for 1 person and a $10.00 gift card to Poppy Books & Gifts. Gift cards will be distributed at the event and redeemable only at the event.
For questions, please email: events@poppybookssf.com.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
MEET AUDRE. Junior class president. Debate team captain. Unofficial student therapist. Desperately in need of a good time.
MEET BASH. Mysterious new senior. Everybody’s crush. Tall, floppy, great taste in jewelry. King of having a good time.
It’s the last day of school at Cheshire Prep, Brooklyn’s elite academy—and Audre Mercy-Moore’s life is a mess. Her dad cancelled her annual summer visit to his Malibu beach house. Now? She’s stuck in a claustrophobic apartment with her mom, stepdad, and one-year-old sister (aka the Goblin Baby).
Under these conditions, she’ll never finish writing her self-help book—ie, the key to winning over Stanford’s admissions board.
Cut to Bash Henry! Audre hires him to be her “fun consultant.” His job? To help her complete the Experience Challenge—her list of five wild dares designed to give her juicy book material. She’ll get inspo; he’ll get paid. Everybody wins.
He isn’t boyfriend material. And she’s not looking for one. Can they stay professional despite their obvious connection?
SCORCHING-HOT SUMMER. SCORCHING-HOT CHEMISTRY. But Audre and Bash can’t forget—they’re just friends.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Tia Williams had a fifteen-year career as a beauty editor for magazines including Elle, Glamo ur, Teen People, and Essence. In 2004, she pioneered the beauty blog industry with her site Shake Your Beauty. She’s the author of The Accidental Diva, the It Chicks series, and The Perfect Find—now a Netflix film starring Gabrielle Union. Her novel, Seven Days in June, was an instant New York Times bestseller and the June 2021 Reese’s Book Club pick. A TV series adaptation is in development with Will Packer Productions. Her latest bestselling novel, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde, was named one of the year’s best romances by New York Times and Amazon.
Jenna Evans Welch was the kind of insatiable child reader who had no choice but to grow up to become a writer. She is the New York Times bestselling author of Love & Gelato, Love & Luck, and Love & Olives. When she isn’t writing girl abroad stories, Jenna can be found chasing her children or making elaborate messes in the kitchen. She lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, with her husband and two young children. Visit her online at JennaEvansWelch.com.
Author Event: Evan Leikam
Please join us and author Evan Leikam as he discusses his new book: ANJI KILLS A KING. Evan will be conversation with Brian McClellan!
Event Details: Author talk followed by a signing.
Location: Poppy Books & Gifts.
Ticket Options:
Ticket + Book: Admission for 1 person and 1 copy of ANJI KILLS A KING. Evan will be conversation with Brian McClellan!.
Plus One: Admission for 1 person and a $10.00 gift card to Poppy Books & Gifts. This ticket is only valid when purchased with a Ticket+Book combo.
Gift cards will be distributed at the event. Redeemable only at the event.
For questions, please email: events@poppybookssf.com.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
An unlikely assassin struggles to escape a legendary bounty hunter in this breakneck fantasy debut that will grab you by the throat—perfect for fans of Joe Abercrombie, R.F. Kuang, and Christopher Buehlman.
She killed for a cause. Will she die for it too?
Anji works as a castle servant, cleaning laundry for a king she hates. So when a rare opportunity presents itself, she seizes the chance to cut his throat. Then she runs for her life. In her wake, the kingdom is thrown into disarray, while a bounty bigger than anyone could imagine lands on her head.
On her heels are the fabled mercenaries of the Menagerie, whose animal-shaped masks are magical relics rumored to give them superhuman powers. It’s the Hawk who finds Anji first: a surly, aging swordswoman who has her own reasons for keeping Anji alive and out of the hands of her fellow bounty hunters, if only long enough to collect the reward herself.
With the rest of the Menagerie on their trail, so begins an alliance as tenuous as it is temporary—and a race against death that will decide Anji’s fate, and may change the course of a kingdom.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Evan Leikam grew up among the forests of central Oregon reading fantasy and science fiction from a young age. While touring the United States and Europe with an independent rock band, he began tinkering with his own stories to pass time in vans and music venues. Apart from writing he enjoys cooking, producing music, riding his bike, and From Software games. He is the host of the Book Reviews Kill podcast, and his social media pages have turned thousands on to new books. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon.
Brian McClellan is an American epic fantasy author from Cleveland, Ohio. He is known for his acclaimed Powder Mage Universe and essays on the life and business of being a writer.
Brian now lives on the side of a mountain in Utah with his wife, Michele, where he writes books and nurses a crippling video game addiction.
Brian's novels include the Powder Mage Trilogy (Promise of Blood, The Crimson Campaign, and The Autumn Republic), Gods of Blood and Powder (Sins of Empire, Wrath of Empire, and Blood of Empire), and the Valkyrie Collections (Uncanny Collateral and Blood Tally).
Emily Henry Release Party!
WHO’S EXCITED FOR NEW EMILY HENRY?? Join us in celebrating the release of GREAT BIG BEAUTIFUL LIFE! We will enjoy a night of games, treats, and romance!
Date: April 21st
Time: 10:30 PM - Midnight
Tickets: $20
Author Event: SOMAN CHAINANI
Please join us, and author SOMAN CHAINANI, as he discusses his new graphic novel: COVEN.
We will have books available for sale at the event. If there's a specific book you'd like to preorder, please give us a call at 801-504-6902.
This event is free but we kindly ask that you RSVP
Event Details: Author talk followed by a signing
Location: Poppy Books & Gifts
7:30-8:30
Ticket Options:
RSVP: Reserves you admission for 1 person
Option to pre-order the book at checkout
For questions, please email: events@poppybookssf.com.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Need your magical crime solved? Call the Witch Coven.
Hester, Anadil, and Dot are legendary across the Endless Woods as vigilante detectives and protectors of the peace. The famed trio are not only talented witches but also ride-or-die friends who’ve never left a case unsolved.
That is, until the Coven answers a call for help from a mysterious new world—Red Isle, where the Light and Dark Lands are on the brink of all-out war, each blaming the other for a grim spree of deaths. Now the Coven must work together and unmask the killer before Red Isle tears itself apart. Little do they know: The real enemy might be hiding in plain sight . . .
From New York Times bestselling author Soman Chainani and artist Joel Gennari comes a bold graphic novel experience that explores how, even in our darkest moments, the truest of friends can bring us back into the light.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Soman Chainani's six novels in the School for Good and Evil series each debuted on the New York Times bestseller list. The series has sold over 4.5 million copies, has been translated into 33 languages, and has been adapted into a film by Netflix that debuted at #1 in over 80 countries. His collection of retold fairy tales, Beasts and Beauty: Dangerous Tales, was also an instant New York Times bestseller and is in development to be a television series from Sony 3000.
Soman is a graduate of Harvard University and received his MFA in film from Columbia University. Every year, he visits schools around the world to speak to kids and share his secret: that reading is the path to a better life.
Author Event: D.M. TREGASKIS
Please join us and author D.M. TREGASKIS as she discusses her new book: DEFINITELY NOT CRUISING FOR LOVE.
Author Event: ALEXANDRA KENNINGTON
Please join us as we welcome ALEXANDRA KENNINGTON as she talks about her debut book BLOOD BENEATH THE SNOW. Please RSVP here.
Author Event: AARON N HALL
We are so excited to welcome local author @aaronn.hall to celebrate the release of his latest book, THE LEGEND OF UH! This is a free event, but please RSVP through this link! Copies can be pre-ordered through the ticket link, or purchased at the event! We can’t wait for this night full of fantasy and fun!