Gays in Space Weekend: Author Talk w/ Charlie Jane Anders + Bitter Karella

Queer Author Talk + Signing: Join us for an out-of-this-world event featuring Charlie Jane Anders and Bitter Karella at A Seat at the Table Books! Get ready to dive into the fascinating intersection of LGBTQ+ themes and science fiction. Hear from these incredible staff-favorite authors as they discuss their work, inspirations, and the importance of representation in a wide range of stories. Stick around after the talk for a signing where you can meet the authors and get your books personalized. Don't miss this unique opportunity to celebrate diversity and creativity in fiction!

About our authors:

• Charlie Jane Anders is the author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster, out now, which is Emily's book club pick for their meeting on October 23. Her other novels include All the Birds in the Sky, The City in the Middle of the Night and the young-adult Unstoppable trilogy. She's also the author of the short story collection Even Greater Mistakes, and Never Say You Can't Survive, a book about how to use creative writing to get through hard times. She's won the Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, Lambda Literary, Crawford and Locus Awards. She co-created Escapade, a transgender superhero, for Marvel Comics and wrote her into the long-running New Mutants comic. And she's currently the science fiction and fantasy book reviewer for the Washington Post. With Annalee Newitz, she co-hosts the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct. Order her books here!
• Bitter Karella is a genderfluid transvestite goblin, best known as the creator of the three time Hugo-nominated microfiction comedy account @MidnightPals, which asks, "what if all your favorite horror writers were to gather around the campfire and tell scary stories like in the classic Nickelodeon series 'Are You Afraid of the Dark?'" Karella writes gonzo psycho-sexual body horror with a grotesquely humorous edge. His short story “Low Tide Jenny,” originally published in Seize the Press magazine, was a winner of the Brave New Weird award for best new weird fiction of 2022 by Tenebrous Press. Her first novel, Moonflow, is available here.

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