TJ Klune presents WE BURNED SO BRIGHT with Olivie Blake

Schedule

Sat May 02 2026 at 06:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

245 Charles E Young Dr E | Los Angeles, CA

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OFFSITE EVENT: Sunny's Bookshop at Freud Playhouse in UCLA. TJ Klune presents WE BURNED SO BRIGHT with Olivie Blake.
About this Event

OFFSITE EVENT: Sunny's Bookshop at Freud Playhouse in UCLA campus.

Join us as we welcome award-winning, USA TODAY & New york times bestselling author, TJ Klune, for a discussion, signing, and photo-op to celebrate his upcoming novel WE BURNED SO BRIGHT. Joining TJ will be internationally bestselling author, Olivie Blake.

TICKET INCLUDES:

  • Seated Event Addmission (first-come, first-served basis)
  • Signed Copy of "We Burned So Bright"
  • Photo-Op - Photos will be taken by our staff on the guest's camera/phone during the photo line
  • TJ will sign up to three books per person and will personalize one
  • Olivie Blake will sign up to three books per person and will personalize one

TICKET INFORMATION

Check-in for this event begins at 4:00pm. Please arrive early as the event will start at 6:00pm.

REFUNDS

We unfortunately cannot provide any refunds for this event. However, if you are unable to attend the event, we will hold your book after the event at our store, Sunny's Bookshop, in Tarzana.

PARKING

Patrons can pay for parking in Parking Structure 3. Rates are $3.00/hour or $12.00/day.

TJ KLUNE

TJ Klune is the #1 New York Times and #1 USA Today bestselling, Lambda Literary Award-winning author of The House in the Cerulean Sea, Under the Whispering Door, In the Lives of Puppets, the Green Creek series for adults, the Extraordinaries series for teens, and more. Being queer himself, Klune believes it's important—now more than ever—to have accurate, positive queer representation in stories.

OLIVIE BLAKE

Olivie Blake (she/her) is the New York Times bestselling author of sci-fi and fantasy for adults, including The Atlas Six trilogy, Alone with You in the Ether, Masters of Death, the short story collection Januaries, and her most recent novel, Girl Dinner. With Little Chmura, she is the co-creator of the graphic series Clara and the Devil. As Alexene Farol Follmuth, she is also the author of the young adult novels My Mechanical Romance and Twelfth Knight. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and son.

ABOUT "WE BURNED SO BRIGHT"

A heart-wrenching standalone novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author TJ Klune, We Burned So Bright follows an elder gay couple on an end-of-the-world road-trip.

The road stretched out before them. No other cars, just the headlights on the blacktop. Above, the cracked moon in a kaleidoscope sky….

Husbands Don and Rodney have lived a good long life. Together they’ve experienced the highest highs of love and family, and lows so low that they felt like the end of the world.

Now, the world is ending for real. A rogue black hole is coming for Earth and in a month everything and everyone they’ve ever known will be gone.

Suddenly, after 40 years together, Don and Rodney are out of time. They’re in a race against the clock to make it from Maine to Washington State to take care of some unfinished business before it’s all over.

On the road they meet those who refuse to believe death is coming and those who rush to meet it. But there are also people living their final days as best they know how—impromptu weddings, bright burning bonfires, shared meals, and new friends.

And as the black hole draws near, among ball lightning and under a cracked moon in a kaleidoscope sky, Don and Rodney will look back on their lives and ask if their best was good enough.

Is it enough to burn bright if nothing comes from the ashes?

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245 Charles E Young Dr E, 245 Charles E Young Drive East, Los Angeles, United States

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USD 19.99 to USD 43.35

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