An Evening with Benjamin Roesch in conversation with Rachael Carter

Join us for an evening with Burlington author Benjamin Roesch to celebrate the release of his latest book, The Rest of Your Life Soundtrack. Benjamin will be in conversation with fellow author Rachel Carter.

About the book: When teen musician Rainey Cobb gets noticed by a major record label, she's caught between her rock & roll dreams and her sick father's hope that she goes to college.

She finds a romantic diversion in Mia, a music-obsessed college dropout who makes the best mix tapes ever. But it's hard for Rainey to fully open her heart when she's not quite ready to show the rest of the world she's gay.

Signing a contract with the label should be a no-brainer. But they're also demanding that Rainey swap her Grunge-curious look for Gap-catalog styles and her edgy original songs for a more radio-friendly sound. They even offer to pay her dad's expensive cancer bills if she'll commit to their vision-but how much should a dream really cost?

Benjamin Roesch's debut novel, Blowin' My Mind Like a Summer Breeze, won the 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Award for Young Adult Fiction. He is also author of the middle grade novel Felix and Squeak and the Ghost Who Forgot Everything. He has an MFA from Lesley University and is a writer, musician, teacher, podcaster, and award-winning essayist. For twelve glorious, exhausting years, he was a high school English teacher, and is now a full-time writer based in Burlington, VT, where he lives with his family. Oh, and his name is pronounced "Rush," like the band from Canada.

Rachel Carter is the author of the So Close to You series with Harperteen. She graduated from the University of Vermont with a degree in English and Women's Studies and holds an MFA from Columbia University in Nonfiction Creative Writing. She teaches creative writing at Columbia University, Champlain College, and Montclair State University, where she recently spent four years as a Visiting Professor of Fiction. Her nonfiction work has appeared in The New Republic, The Faster Times, and Booktrib.com. She currently lives in Central Vermont where she works as the Executive Director of the Green Mountain Book Festival and the Editorial Director for Onion River Press.

DATE: Tuesday, September 24th, 7PM

LOCATION: Phoenix Books Burlington, 89 Church Street, downtown Burlington

TICKETS: $3. Your ticket comes with a coupon for $3 off one of the featured author's books. Coupons expire at closing the evening of the event. Tickets can be purchased at the registration link below, or at the door.

BOOKS: Signed copies of The Rest of Your Life Soundtrack will be available at the event. Can't make it to the event but still want to purchase a signed, personalized copy? Click HERE. Copies will be available after the event on September 24th. If you ordered a book for store pick up, we will contact you as soon as it's ready. If you ordered a book with shipping, please allow an additional 7-10 days for delivery.

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