Book Signing with K.M. Fajardo: Local Heavens

Name: Book Signing with K.M. Fajardo: Local Heavens
Start: 2025-10-18T15:00:00-04:00
Location: Midtown Scholar Bookstore

Schedule

Sat, 18 Oct, 2025 at 03:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Midtown Scholar Bookstore | Harrisburg, PA

The Harrisburg Book Festival is honored to welcome debut author K.M. Fajardo to the Midtown Scholar Bookstore for a signing on her new novel, Local Heavens. Fajardo will be available for a meet & greet, book signing, and photos.
Purchasing the author’s new book from the Midtown Scholar Bookstore is required for entry to the signing line. This event will take place on Verbeke Street at the Outdoor Tent Sale by the Midtown Scholar Bookstore.
About the Book:
A corporate hacker. An elusive billionaire. A society trying to survive the American Nightmare.
New York City, 2075. Filipino American Nick Carraway has just moved to the heart of the fractured New Americas, where he’s struck by the city’s contradictions—shining corporate towers casting bleak shadows over the slums of a crumbling middle class.
When Nick meets alluring, new-money Jay Gatsby, he falls for Gatsby’s frank charm and confident aura. But in a city where the wealthy flaunt tech-enhanced bodies to cheat death, surfaces aren’t all they seem—and as a corporate-sanctioned cyberspace hacker, Nick knows that no secret can stay buried forever. He’s the reason they don’t. And his latest assignment? Investigate Gatsby himself.
As Nick becomes entangled in the dark affairs of the elite—and the devastating fallout of their actions on the city’s most vulnerable—he must reckon with the limits of compassion and accountability across class and status. What takes precedence: Love or truth? Heart or soul?
A brilliant reimagining of Fitzgerald’s classic tale of glamour, desire, and desperation, Local Heavens examines the guardrails of morality . . . and the price of desire.
About the Author:
K. M. Fajardo is a second-generation Filipino-Canadian speculative fiction writer from Ontario, Canada. She graduated from the University of Waterloo with a degree in Global Business and Digital Arts before working in the tech industry. Her short fiction has previously been published in Canadian publications, Augur and Ricepaper Magazine. She now writes full-time in Toronto and is currently working on her second book, a fantasy work inspired by Filipino culture and myth. Local Heavens, forthcoming in October 2025, is her debut novel.