M. L. Rio // Hot Wax

Join us in welcoming internationally bestselling author M. L. Rio to Doylestown, PA, as she discusses and signs her new book at The Doylestown Bookshop on Saturday, September 13, 2025 at 3:00pm. She will be in conversation with local horror author Chuck Wendig.

This is a ticketed event. Each ticket includes admission for one person and a hardcover copy of Hot Wax.

DATE: Saturday, September 13, 2025 at 3:00pm

LOCATION: The Doylestown Bookshop, 16 S. Main Street, Doylestown, PA 18901

THIS IS A TICKETED EVENT - HERE'S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

• Doors open at 2:00pm, and the event will start at 3:00 pm.
• Each ticket admits one person and includes one hardcover copy of Hot Wax. No substitutions.
• Books will be available for pick-up at the event.
• The author will sign and personalize books with your first name only, with no messages. She will not be able to sign any posters, bookmarks, scraps of paper, etc...
• You may bring TWO books from home to be signed by the author in addition to anything purchased in the store during the event.
• An adult must accompany children under 16.
• If you cannot attend the event, we will hold your signed books at the front counter of The Doylestown Bookshop for pick-up. Please give us 24 hours post-event to prepare your books for pick-up.
• Event tickets are non-refundable.

About the Book:

The new novel from the bestselling author of If We Were Villains and Graveyard Shift—a vivid and immersive tale of one woman’s reckless mission to make sense of the events that shattered her childhood, and made her who she is.Summer, 1989: ten-year-old Suzanne is drawn like a magnet to her father’s forbidden world of electric guitars and tricked-out cars. When her mother remarries, she jumps at the chance to tag along on the concert tour that just might be Gil and the Kills’ wild ride to glory. But fame has sharper fangs than anybody realized, and as the band blazes up the charts, internal power struggles set Gil and his group on a collision course destined for a bloody reckoning—one shrouded in mystery and lore for decades to come.The only witness to a desperate act of violence, Suzanne spends the next twenty-nine years trying to disappear. She trades the music and mayhem of her youth for the quiet of the suburbs and the company of her mild-mannered husband Rob. But when her father’s sudden death resurrects the troubled past she tried so hard to bury, she leaves it all behind and hits the road in search of answers. Hitching her fate and Gil’s beloved car to two vagabonds who call an old Airstream trailer home, she finds everything she thought she’d lost forever: desire, adventure, and the woman she once wanted to be. But Rob refuses to let her go. Determined to bring her back where she belongs, he chases her across the country—and drives her to a desperation all her own.Drenched in knock-down drag-out rock and roll, Hot Wax is a raucous, breakneck ride to hell and back—where getting lost might be the only way to find yourself and save your soul.

About our Guests:

M.L. Rio has been an actor, a bookseller, an academic, and a music writer. She holds an MA in Shakespeare studies and a PhD in English literature. She is the author of the internationally bestselling novel If We Were Villains, the USA TODAY bestselling novella Graveyard Shift, and Hot Wax. She never stays in one place for long, but keeps her books, records, and four-legged sidekick in south Philadelphia.

Chuck Wendig is the New York Times bestselling author of Wanderers, The Book of Accidents, Wayward, and more than two dozen other books for adults and young adults. A finalist for the Astounding Award and an alumnus of the Sundance Screenwriters Lab, he has also written for comics, games, film, and television. He’s known for his popular blog, terribleminds, and books about writing such as Damn Fine Story. He lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, with his family.

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