Misty and David Wilson with Jenny L. Howe

An Unlikely Story is thrilled to welcome the New York Times bestselling author Misty Wilson and author/illustrator David Wilson!
About this Event

An Unlikely Story is thrilled to welcome the New York Times bestselling author of the Bramble Falls series, Misty Wilson, and author/illustrator David Wilson to celebrate their new releases: Falling Like Snow and Soulmates! Misty and David will be in conversation with acclaimed romance author of How (Not) to Renovate a Haunted House, Jenny L. Howe.

In Falling Like Snow, a girl juggles planning her town’s first-ever winter festival and untangling her complicated feelings for both her best friend and the star hockey player in this charming book in the swoony Bramble Falls series that started with the New York Times bestselling Falling Like Leaves.

For fans of Lunar New Year Love Story and Pumpkinheads, David Wilson’s author-illustrator graphic novel debut explores themes of life and death, the bittersweetness of first love, and the notion that perhaps your perfect soulmate is the one who helps you discover your true self. You will love Soulmates!

Tickets for this event are $5, which can be redeemed as a coupon towards Misty and David's books on the night of the event. Tickets are required to attend. We hope to see you there!

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Ticket holders who purchased a book-included ticket and are unable to attend the event will be able to pick up their book at An Unlikely Story up to 30 days following the event.

About the books:

Falling Like Snow: After Bramble Falls’s wildly successful Falling Leaves Festival, Sloane Sullivan is looking forward to some downtime—especially kicking back and marathoning Nora Ephron movies with her best friend, Asher. But they barely make it through Sleepless in Seattlebefore Sloane’s mom calls an emergency tourism department meeting; it’s all hands on deck—Bramble Falls is having its first ever Falling Snow Festival!
Sloane may still be recovering from the last seasonal event, but she’s also excited. After all, Christmas is the best time of year! And she’ll have her whole crew by her side, including her cousin Ellis and, of course, Asher. But when irresistible, hockey-playing Micah catches Sloane’s attention, she finds herself a bit distracted. The emotions her unexpected flirtation brings up make Sloane feel confused about Micah…and Asher.
She’s never thought of Asher as more than her best friend, but even if Sloane is seeing Asher in a new light, what does that mean for her and Micah? Uncertain and more than a little overwhelmed, Sloane throws herself into festival preparations, hoping to get a little Christmas magic in return that will help her figure out where her heart lies.

Soulmates: Kit is the golden boy of his small town. Captain of the football team, perfect grades, perfect relationship, perfect everything. But when his childhood best friend, Emma, mysteriously returns to town, Kit's life is thrown into turmoil.
She's the only one who knows what happened that day he fell at the cliffs—and why he woke up alone on the shore. She's also the only one who may know the truth about the strange visions he's been having—and why the people he sees in them are turning up dead.
As Kit and Emma reconnect and rekindle the past, Kit's forced to admit that things aren't as perfect as they seem. And Emma. . . well, she isn't what she seems either. Her family's been hiding a secret for generations and with Death looming over all of them, the truth can't stay buried forever.

About the authors:

Misty Wilson is the New York Times bestselling author of the Bramble Falls series and Play Like a Girl, her award-winning debut middle grade graphic memoir. Misty is a teacher, registered nurse, and a voracious reader. She loves binge-watching television series and adores rom-coms. She lives in Northeast Ohio with her husband and their two daughters.

David Wilson is an illustrator, writer, designer, and filmmaker with an MFA from Kent State University in Visual Communication Design. David has worked with clients such as The Atlantic, The WWE, Boom! Comics, The Boston Globe, Harvard, Forbes, and many more. He is Creative Director at Belt Publishing, where he was a recipient of AIGA’s “50 Books 50 Covers” award. His middle-grade graphic novel, Play Like A Girl, a Junior Library Guild Gold Selection, written by Misty Wilson, was a 2023 Buckeye Book Award winner.

In conversation with:

Jenny L. Howe is a literature professor, amateur dog wrangler, and owner of too many Lego sets. Getting lost in love stories is her favorite form of escapism, and she still can’t believe that she gets to write her own and share them with the world. She is the author of romances for teens and adults, including her YA debut Love at Full Tilt.