Join us to celebrate not one, not two, but five of Alex Segura's recently and upcoming novels and graphic novels!

It will be a lively panel discussion with fellow authors, Julio Anta, Rob Hart, and David Ezra Stein.

About the authors:

Alex Segura is the bestselling and award-winning author of Secret Identity, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller and a New York Times Editor’s Choice and an NPR Best Mystery of the Year. He’s also the author of the Pete Fernandez series, as well as the Star Wars novel, Poe Dameron: Free Fall, and the YA Spider-Verse adventure, Araña/Spider-Man 2099: Dark Tomorrow. In 2024, he published a sci-fi/espionage novel, Dark Space, co-written with Rob Hart; the graphic novel The Legendary Lynx, illustrated by Sandy Jarrell; Encanto: Nightmares and Sueños; and Alter Ego, a standalone sequel to Secret Identity. In addition to his prose writing he has written a number of comics for Marvel and DC, including Star Wars: Battle of Jakku, Spider-Society, and The Question: All Along the Watchtower. With Michael Moreci he is the writer behind the noir re-launch of Dick Tracy. He lives in New York City with his family.

Julio Anta is the Eisner Award-nominated author of many graphic novels including Frontera, Home, Sí, Se Puede: The Latino Heroes Who Changed the United States and This Land Is Our Land: A Blue Beetle Story. Julio was born and raised in Miami, Florida and currently resides in New York City where he works to tell narratively rich stories about a diverse range of Latinx characters for readers of all ages. Forthcoming work includes a slate of graphic novels for HarperAlley, Random House Graphic and First Second.

Rob Hart is the author of the USA TODAY bestseller Assassins Anonymous, as well as The Paradox Hotel, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award that was named one of the best books of 2022 by NPR, and The Warehouse, which sold in more than 20 languages around the world. His most recent book is Dark Space, co-authored with Alex Segura. He is also the author of the Ash McKenna crime series, the short story collection Take-Out, the novella Scott Free with James Patterson, and the comic book Blood Oath with Alex Segura. His next books are The Medusa Protocol, due in Summer 2025, and Detour, co-written with Jeff Rake, creator and showrunner of TV’s Manifest, due in Spring 2026.

David Ezra Stein’s Interrupting Chicken was awarded a 2011 Caldecott Honor, as well as many state awards. His picture book Leaves won the Ezra Jack Keats award and was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, a Kirkus Reviews Editor’s Choice, and a School Library Journal Best Book. Booklist called his book Monster Hug! “a cousin to Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are.” Pouch! (Putnam), was a 2010 Charlotte Zolotow Honor Book. His books have been translated into Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Spanish, Catalan, Dutch, French, and Finnish. His latest are: The Worm Family Has Its Picture Taken (written by Jennifer Frank)); and Interrupting Chicken: Cookies for Breakfast. David lives in Kew Gardens, NY with his wife and two children, and a rabbit named Bun Bun.