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The Library Shop & The San Diego Public Library are thrilled to be hosting a stop on Penguin Teen’s Spring 2020 blockbuster author tour on Tuesday March 3rd @ 7:00pm! Join us in the beautiful Neil Morgan Auditorium at the San Diego Central Library @ Joan Λ Irwin Jacobs Common for a SDPL Librarian led author panel discussion, an audience Q&A and the chance to meet, grab a quick photo with, and autograph from, all three authors at a book signing afterwards! This event is free and open to the public but we expect a big crowd and seating is first come first serve. Reserved seating is guaranteed only for those pre-ordering a book from the Library Shop in advance. The event starts at 7:00pm. Doors to the auditorium open at 6:00pm.
In addition to signing any books purchased from the Library Shop, the authors will also sign back list titles but in order to enter the signing line we require that you purchase at least one book from the Library Shop. You can pre-order a book and reserve your spot in the signing here: https://www.libraryshopsd.org/events/penguin
All proceeds support programming for the entire San Diego Public Library system.
Melissa de la Cruz is the #1 New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and Publishers Weekly internationally bestselling author of many critically acclaimed books for readers of all ages, including the Alex & Eliza trilogy, Disney's Descendants novels, the Blue Bloods series, and the Summer on East End series. Her books have sold over eight million copies, and the Witches of East End series became an hour-long television drama on the Lifetime network.
Marie Lu is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Young Elites series, as well as the blockbuster bestselling Legend series, and the Warcross novels. She graduated from the University of Southern California and jumped into the video game industry as an artist. Now a full-time writer, she spends her spare time reading, drawing, playing games, and getting stuck in traffic. She lives in Los Angeles with her illustrator-author husband, Primo Gallanosa, and their dogs.
Raised on a diet of Spielberg, Lucas and Disney, Astrid Scholte knew she wanted to be surrounded by all things fantastical from a young age. She's spent the last ten years working in film, animation and television as both an artist and manager. Career highlights include working on James Cameron's Avatar, Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin and George Miller's Happy Feet Two. She's a visual writer and aims to capture the vivid stories that play like movies in her head. When she's not writing, she's painting her favorite fictional characters and obliging her furry overlords, Lilo and Mickey. Four Dead Queens is her debut novel.