YA Panel with Ellen O’Clover, JC Peterson, Jessie Weaver, Leslie Vedder, AND Olivia Chadha!

Old Firehouse Books is thrilled to welcome five fabulous YA authors to a panel of fantastical proportions! Ellen O’Clover (Seven Percent of Ro Devereux), JC Peterson (Lola at Last), Jessie Weaver (Live Your Best Lie (Like Me Block You)), Leslie Vedder (The Severed Thread), Olivia Chadha (Rise of the Red Hand: Volume 1) will be talking YA, fantasy and contemporary, on Sunday, February 19th at 3pm MT. This event will be taking place at Old Town Library. Readers will have the chance to say hi to these amazing authors and have their books signed. Books can be purchased in advance of the event, or on the day of. 

 

Ellen O'Clover / Seven Percent of Ro Devereux:  Ro Devereux can predict your future. Or, at least, the app she built for her senior project can.

Working with her neighbor, a retired behavioral scientist, Ro created an app called MASH, designed around the classic game Mansion Apartment Shack House, that can predict a person’s future with 93% accuracy. The app will even match users with their soulmates. Though it was only supposed to be a class project, MASH quickly takes off and gains the attention of tech investors.

Ro’s dream is to work in Silicon Valley, and she’ll do anything to prove to her new backing company—and the world—that the app works. So it’s a huge shock when the app says her soulmate is Miller, her childhood best friend with whom she had a friendship-destroying fight three years ago.

Now thrust into a fake dating scenario, Ro and Miller must address the years of pain between them if either of them will have any chance of achieving their dreams. And as the app takes on a life of its own, Ro sees that it’s affecting people in ways she never expected—and if she can’t regain control, it might take her and everything she believes in down with it.

 

JC Peterson / Lola at Last:  Move over, Elizabeth Bennet. The most infamous Bennet sister is here to tell her story.

Join Lola Barnes, a.k.a. a modern Lydia Bennet, at the beginning of a summer gone truly wrong: where a boat party-turned-fiery-fiasco ends with the ship, Lola’s summer plans, and her reputation truly sunk.

(The boat was barely on fire, for the record—and all the partygoers were just fine.)

Luckily, this disaster of a summer has another thing in store for her: a path of self-discovery she never saw coming.

Given an ultimatum—jail time, or spending the summer with the nonprofit Hike Like a Girl—she laces up her hiking boots and takes to the wilderness. Along the way, she’ll encounter unexpected friends, a sweet romance, strength she didn’t know she had—and herself, Lola, at last.

Jessie Weaver / Live Your Best Lie (Like Me Block You): Sometimes the prettiest Instagram feeds mask the darkest, and bloodiest, secrets.

Social media influencer Summer Cartwright leads a very charmed life: millions of followers, the hottest designer and vintage clothes at her fingertips, a newly minted book deal, the coolest friends, and, until recently, the hottest boyfriend at her über-elite prep school. Every moment of her life has been carefully planned and cultivated to complement her “imperfectly perfect” social media persona. She is truly #LivingHerBestLife.

But when Summer goes missing during her annual Halloween party and then an unscheduled post appears on her feed stating that she’ll be dead within the next five minutes, those closest to Summer know something isn’t quite right—or on-brand. Grace, Summer’s camera-shy best friend; Adam, Summer’s gamer ex-boyfriend; Laney, Summer’s moody camp roommate; and Cora, an influencer wannabe, all decide to investigate. And when they come upon Summer’s lifeless body, they soon realize that no filter is strong enough to mask the lies we tell ourselves.

 

Leslie Vedder / The Severed Thread: Clever, bookish Fi and her brash, ax-wielding partner Shane are back in this action packed sequel to the bestselling The Bone Spindle, the gender-flipped Sleeping Beauty retelling, perfect for fans of Sorcery of Thorns and The Cruel Prince.

Fi has awakened the sleeping prince, but the battle for Andar is far from over. The Spindle Witch, the Witch Hunters, and Fi’s own Butterfly Curse all stand between them and happily ever after.  
 
Shane has her partner’s back. But she’s in for the fight of her life against Red, the right hand of the Spindle Witch who she’s also, foolishly, hellbent on saving. 
 
Briar Rose would do anything to restore his kingdom. But there’s a darkness creeping inside him—a sinister bond to the Spindle Witch he can’t escape.  
 
All hopes of restoring Andar rest on deciphering a mysterious book code, finding the hidden city of the last Witches, and uncovering a secret lost for centuries—one that just might hold the key to the Spindle Witch’s defeat. If they can all survive that long… 
 

Olivia Chadha / Rise of the Red Hand: 

The South Asian Province is split in two. Uplanders lead luxurious lives inside a climate-controlled biodome, dependent on technology and gene therapy to keep them healthy and youthful forever. Outside, the poor and forgotten scrape by with discarded black-market robotics, a society of poverty-stricken cyborgs struggling to survive in slums threatened by rising sea levels, unbreathable air, and deadly superbugs.

Ashiva works for the Red Hand, an underground network of revolutionaries fighting the government, which is run by a merciless computer algorithm that dictates every citizen’s fate. She’s a smuggler with the best robotic arm and cybernetic enhancements the slums can offer, and her cargo includes the most vulnerable of the city’s abandoned children.

When Ashiva crosses paths with the brilliant hacker Riz-Ali, a privileged Uplander who finds himself embroiled in the Red Hand’s dangerous activities, they uncover a horrifying conspiracy that the government will do anything to bury. From armed guardians kidnapping children to massive robots flattening the slums, to a pandemic that threatens to sweep through the city like wildfire, Ashiva and Riz-Ali will have to put aside their differences in order to fight the system and save the communities they love from destruction.

 

 

Books can be shipped anywhere within the United States (unfortunately, we cannot ship internationally).

Please email events@oldfirehousebooks.com if you have any questions.

We look forward to seeing you at the event! 

Event date: 
Sunday, February 19, 2023 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Event address: 
201 Peterson St
Fort Collins, CO 80524
Seven Percent of Ro Devereux By Ellen O'Clover Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9780063255036
Availability: Not on our shelves; Available to order; Arrives in 5-7 business days
Published: HarperTeen - January 17th, 2023

Being Mary Bennet By J. C. Peterson Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9780063060135
Availability: Not on our shelves; Available to order; Arrives in 5-7 business days
Published: HarperTeen - March 15th, 2022

Lola at Last By J. C. Peterson Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9780063060180
Availability: Not on our shelves; Available to order; Arrives in 5-7 business days
Published: HarperTeen - February 28th, 2023

The Bone Spindle By Leslie Vedder Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9780593325827
Availability: Not on our shelves; Available to order; Arrives in 5-7 business days
Published: Razorbill - January 11th, 2022

The Severed Thread (The Bone Spindle #2) By Leslie Vedder Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9780593325858
Availability: Not on our shelves; Available to order; Arrives in 5-7 business days
Published: Razorbill - February 7th, 2023

Live Your Best Lie (Like Me Block You) By Jessie Weaver Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9781368078368
Availability: Not on our shelves; Available to order; Arrives in 5-7 business days
Published: Melissa de la Cruz Studio - January 24th, 2023

Rise Of The Red Hand (The Mechanists #1) By Olivia Chadha Cover Image
$10.95
ISBN: 9781645660330
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Erewhon Books - October 26th, 2021