Ask Me Anything: A Book Launch Event with Barry Lyga!

Mark your calendar for June 20th! We’re welcoming special guest author Barry Lyga as we celebrate the release of his 28th book, Every Hunter is Hunted.

Set in the world of Barry Lyga’s New York Times bestselling I Hunt Killers trilogy, this gripping adult mystery follows the search for a terrifying serial killer.

Ask Me Anything is an opportunity for any aspiring writer looking for insights on the writing process from an author who has published 28 titles.

That's right: You get to ask any question and Barry will happily answer!

About the Author:

Called a “YA rebel-author” by Kirkus Reviews, Barry Lyga has published twenty-seven books in various genres in his eighteen-year career, including the New York Times bestselling I Hunt Killers. His books have been or are slated to be published in more than a dozen different languages in North America, Australia, Europe, and Asia.

After graduating from Yale with a degree in English, Lyga worked in the comic book industry before quitting to pursue his lifelong love of writing. In 2006, his first young adult novel, The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl, was published to rave reviews, including starred reviews from Booklist and School Library Journal. Publishers Weekly named Lyga a “Flying Start” in December 2006 on the strength of the debut.

His second young adult novel, Boy Toy, received starred reviews in SLJ, Publishers Weekly, and Kirkus. VOYA gave it its highest critical rating, and the Chicago Tribune called it “…an astounding portrayal of what it is like to be the young male victim.” His third novel, Hero-Type, according to VOYA “proves that there are still fresh ideas and new, interesting story lines to be explored in young adult literature.”

He has also written Goth Girl Rising (the sequel to his first novel), as well as the Archvillain series for middle-grade readers and the graphic novel Mangaman (with art by Colleen Doran).

His most popular series is I Hunt Killers, called by the LA Times “one of the more daring concepts in recent years by a young-adult author” and an “extreme and utterly alluring narrative about nature versus nurture.” The first book landed on both the New York Times and USAToday bestsellers lists.

Since then, he has written a six-part epic based on The Flash, the inter-generational M**der mystery Time Will Tell, and the origin of the MCU’s greatest villain in Thanos: Titan Consumed. He is also the editor of Generation Wonder: The New Age of Heroes, an anthology introducing a plethora of new superheroes to a world that desperately needs them.

Lyga lives near New York City with his wife, the novelist Morgan Baden, their nigh-omnipotent daughter, and their preternaturally chill son. His comic book collection is a lot smaller than it used to be, but is still way too big.

About the Book:

Brides are being murdered on their wedding nights. Soaked in blood and draped in lace. With nothing left behind to help them find the killer, the FBI is at an impasse. Their only, desperate hope is to convince Jasper Dent, the son of two serial killers and a former teen prodigy at hunting down such monsters, to emerge from his self-imposed exile.

When he was a teenager, both of Jasper’s parents were members of a secret society of serial killers. Today, his father is in Pr*son, and his mother is in a coma, both results of their final confrontation with Jasper years ago. Now wealthy from a bestselling memoir about his parents, Jasper still carries the scars from their parenting—and the uncanny, unwanted ability to understand killers that they instilled in him.

Jasper wants nothing more than to hide from his past – cash his royalty checks and never think about M**der and blood again. But he knows the only way to find any meaning or redemption in his life is to face his demons once again. His skills rusty, his confidence shaken, Jasper races against a ticking clock, frantically seeking to solve the impossible mystery before more women meet a horrific end.