Rachel Horak Dempsey with Erika T. Wurth Live at Tattered Cover Aspen Grove
About this Event
Local author Rachel Horak Dempsey is joining us with Erika T. Wurth on Saturday, August 1st at 6:00 PM at our Aspen Grove location to share about Dempsey's debut novella, Pn0k0: Twisted Tales of Familiar Faces!
Registration includes the following options:
- A signed Paperback copy of the book … OR
- A $5 Gift Card to Tattered Cover Book Store
We will have a limited supply of additional books for guests to purchase in store. Only a book ticket guarantees you a copy of the book.
This event includes an opportunity to meet the author, participate in an audience Q&A after the book talk, and get your book(s) signed and personalized. Photos with the author are welcome!
If you are unable to attend the event after purchasing a ticket, you are required to pick up your copy of the book (with proof of purchase from your event registration) within 7 days after the event date. If the book is not picked up by that date, you relinquish your copy to Tattered Cover Book Store.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Some strings were never meant to be cut.
Joseph Zimmerman Jr. has spent his entire life in the shadow of his father's genius; raised not with warmth, but with fear. Fear was the key, his father always said. The only lesson that truly sticks.
In the sterile quiet of their lab, a prototype stirs. A hybrid of machine and something terrifyingly close to human, built to prove that mortality has a cure. But the closer it inches toward life, the more it seems to have a mind of its own.
And it has been watching.
When creator and creation collide, Joseph finds himself trapped between the father he desperately wants to please and a prototype that may know him better than he knows himself. No one who gets too close is safe.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rachel Horak Dempsey is a writer and editor of all things dark.
Her short fiction has appeared on Creepy Pod and in anthologies by Brigids Gate Press, Timber Ghost Press, Twenty Bellows and more. She is the winner of the Colorado Gold Literary Award, the Denver Women’s Press Club’s Emerging Writer Award, and was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2024.
Prior to moving back west, Rachel worked for several professional theater organizations in the D.C. area, including Studio Theatre, Imagination Stage, and ArtStream, where she performed, wrote and directed over a dozen musicals. She currently serves on the Executive Board of Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers and appears regularly on the Writers Who Read podcast as a guest host.
Rachel holds a BFA in Drama and English from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, a Master’s in Journalism from Georgetown University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Regis University in Denver where she lives with her family.
ABOUT THE CONVERSATION PARTNER
Erika T. Wurth is the author of WHITE HORSE and THE HAUNTING OF ROOM 904. She's a New York Times editors pick, a Good Morning America buzz pick, and an Indie Next, Target book of the Month, and BOTM Pick. She’s both a Kenyon and Sewanee fellow, has published in The Kenyon Review, Buzzfeed, and The Writer’s Chronicle, and is a narrative artist for the Meow Wolf Denver installation. She’s an urban Native of Apache/Chickasaw/Cherokee descent. She's a professor at Western Illinois University.
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
USD 7.25 to USD 16.87
