Meet + Greet: Aliza Layne

Name: Meet + Greet: Aliza Layne
Start: 2025-04-30T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-04-30T19:00:00-04:00
Location: 12 N Market St, Frederick, MD, United States, Maryland 21701

Schedule

Wed Apr 30 2025 at 06:00 pm to 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

12 N Market St, Frederick, MD, United States, Maryland 21701 | Frederick, MD

Join us at Curious Iguana at 6:00 pm on Wednesday, April 30 for a meet-and-greet with author Aliza Layne as she promotes her new book, Beetle & the Chimera Carnival. Aliza will be at the Iguana to meet fans and sign books!
This event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase and signing at the event.
About the book: Beetle and her friends attend a carnival full of dragons and magic, only to discover something sinister at play behind the scenes, in this delightful sequel to the Stonewall Honor–winning Beetle & the Hollowbones middle grade graphic novel.
Hidden behind the clouds, giant dragons guard the most powerful magic in the world from prying eyes. On one magical night, once every ten years, these leviathans reveal themselves to a fanfare of costumes, music, and parades in the Chimera Carnival.
But this time, something’s wrong.
When Beetle, Penny, and Kat decide to check out the empty carnival site one night, they discover an injured dragon screaming for help. And the more Beetle uncovers about the Chimera Carnival, the more sinister it gets. Dragons who arrive for the early festivities disappear without a trace. Beetle’s magic begins to go haywire. And Kat’s parents come back to town, worrying both girls about whether they have a future together.
In the catacombs beneath the demolished ’Allowstown mall, something hungers for dragon magic. And Beetle and her friends are already more entwined with it than they could possibly imagine.
About the author: Aliza Layne was raised by two married dogs but is now a cat. She makes monsters and goblins and Halloween costumes in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, where she lives with her gay friends. Beetle & the Hollowbones, her first graphic novel, was a Stonewall Honor Book. Find more of her work for adults and kids at Aliza Layne .