Megan Shepherd

Beth Revis Carrie Ryan Megan Shepherd We have rescheduled this event for March 30! On Saturday, March 30 at 12:00 p.m. City Lights Bookstore will host three terrific Young Adult authors for a reading and panel discussion. Beth Revis, Carrie Ryan and Megan Hansen Shepherd will discuss their work and read from their new books.

Beth Revis is the author the Across the Universe series and will present her latest installment, Shades of Earth. Carrie Ryan is the author of the Forest of Hands and Teeth series and has also been included in some recent YA short story collections. Asheville resident, Megan Hansen Shepherd will present her first novel, The Madman’s Daughter, which is the first book of a trilogy.

These authors are among the favorites of some of the staff here at City Lights so come early to get a seat and don’t miss out on the chance to meet these talented writers. To reserve copies of their books please call City Lights Bookstore at 828-586-9499.

Location: Street: 3 East Jackson Street City: Sylva, Province: North Carolina Postal Code: 28779 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Lenore Appelhans is the debut author of a YA novel Level 2 (due January 15, 2013 from Simon and Schuster BFYR in the US, Usborne in the UK and Allen & Unwin in AUST/NZ) as well as a picture book CHICK-O-SAURUS REX (under the name Lenore Jennewein) with her husband, illustrator Daniel Jennewein (due Summer 2013 from Simon and Schuster BFYR).

Megan Shepherd grew up in her family's independent bookstore in North Carolina. An avid reader and world traveler who spent several years in the Peace Corps, Megan now lives with her husband in Asheville, North Carolina. The Madman's Daughter is her first novel.

Jodi Meadows lives and writes in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, with her husband, a Kippy*, and an alarming number of ferrets. She is a confessed book addict, and has wanted to be a writer ever since she decided against becoming an astronaut.

*A Kippy is a cat.

Meagan Spooner grew up reading and writing every spare moment of the day, while dreaming about life as an archaeologist, a marine biologist, an astronaut. She graduated from Hamilton College in New York with a degree in playwriting, and has spent several years since then living in Australia. She’s traveled with her family all over the world to places like Egypt, South Africa, the Arctic, Greece, Antarctica, and the Galapagos, and there’s a bit of every trip in every story she writes.

She currently lives and writes in Northern Virginia, but the siren call of travel is hard to resist, and there’s no telling how long she’ll stay there.

In her spare time she plays guitar, plays video games, plays with her cat, and reads. Meagan Spooner is the author of Skylark, the first in a young adult fantasy trilogy available NOW from Carolrhoda Lab/Lerner Books. She is also the co-author of THESE BROKEN STARS, the first in a young adult science fiction trilogy forthcoming from Disney Hyperion (Fall 2013).

Join us in welcoming FOUR extraordinary new talents in the young adult fiction world. Please join us for an evening of celebration of these hot new titles and their wonderful authors!!!

Location: Street: 1312 E. Cary St. City: Richmond, Province: Virginia Postal Code: 23219-4118 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Four fabulous young adult authors read from and sign their latest books! New York Times bestselling author Beth Revis will read from Shades of Earth, the much anticipated conclusion to her Across the Universe Trilogy. “…a fittingly explosive conclusion in this satisfying series. . . . A propulsive storyteller with a knack for jarring surprises and raising the stakes.”

--Booklist. Megan Shepherd will read from her new book The Madman’s Daughter. “A deft twist on a familiar classic, The Madman’s Daughter has the best of everything: beautiful writing, breakneck pacing, a pulse-pounding mystery, and an irresistible romance.” -Carrie Ryan, bestselling author of The Forest of Hands and Teeth series. Victoria Schwab will share from her second novel, The Archived, haunting and richly imagined, reveals the thin lines between past and present, love and pain, trust and deceit, unbearable loss and hard-won redemption. “An intricately woven story that just glows with the excellence of the prose on the page.”

-yabookscentral.com. Lenore Appelhans will read from her new book Level 2, an exploration of a futuristic afterlife in which a teen discovers that death is just the beginning. “This imaginative debut brings conflict to the afterlife....An absorbing, sensitive read.” -Kirkus Reviews

Location: Street: 55 Haywood St City: Asheville, Province: North Carolina Postal Code: 28801 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)