11am – 1pm
Author Event: Grace Carlisle – The Forest of Forgotten
There are monsters in the woods. When I come back to my childhood home for the first time in seven years, a tiny man living under the porch stairs greets me like an old friend, and it only gets stranger from there. A hunter who stalks the woods, a monster in the river, and a man draped in shadows who offers me a bargain I can’t refuse. They remember me, but my past is in tatters, forcing me to follow the trail my childhood self left me years ago – the first time I entered the world known as Faerie. Each answer I find pulls me deeper into the web of political machinations of an otherworldly court. But nothing answers the biggest question: “Why me?” And how can I possibly survive when I can’t even trust my own mind? Grace Carlisle likes writing about weird monsters and weird people. Grace is an alumnus of two college literary journals, where she published poems about fireflies and short stories about cat-loving ghosts, evil books, and reluctant psychopomps. After beginning her professional career writing for tabletop roleplaying games, Grace published her debut novel, The Forest of Forgotten Vows in 2022.
2pm – 4pm
Author Event: Breyanna Evans – Multiple
They were bound. They were broken. The world as they know it will never be the same. Lane has suffered injuries with no clear cause for as long as she can remember. When a chance encounter reveals the impossible truth, she can’t believe it until, learning that the reason for her injuries is a reckless mercenary about to embark on a dangerous quest, she is forced to act. Their fates are tied, and if he dies, she will, too. Desperate for answers, she joins his quest. As the two uncover more about their mysterious bond, they question whether the bond is worth breaking, test just how far they are willing to go to keep each other safe, and find themselves on a whirlwind adventure that neither of them asked for. The fates may have more in store for them yet.