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Join us to welcome back local author Django Wexler in conversation with fellow local author and Word Craft host Alexandra Oliva (THE RADIANT DARK) and celebrate the release of Django's new fantasy adventure THE ONLY WAY OUT IS UP!ABOUT THE BOOKS:
THE ONLY WAY OUT IS UP by Django Wexler
Taj lives in a junkheap, scavenging scrap to keep his family fed and dodging the monsters who live among the wreckage. His only edge is a smart-ass construct named Star he built himself.
Taj dreams of winning big with Star in the construct fighting circuits, but victory always seems just beyond his reach and the debt collectors are at the door.
His world changes forever when someone there makes him an offer that seems too good to be true: a chance to fight in the Ascent, the ultimate fighting tournament, for a prize beyond his wildest fantasies. But things that seem too good to be true usually are, and Taj finds his new benefactor comes with plenty of new enemies.
As he ventures beyond the only world he's ever known, he discovers it's not just his money on the line in the Ascent—it's his life. When you start at the very bottom, the only way out is up …
PREORDER LINK: https://www.brickandmortarbooks.com/item/oR7uwsLR1XvBOTCl1o46Wg
THE RADIANT DARK by Alexandra Oliva
It’s March 1980, and Carol Girard and her husband are living an ordinary life in a small town in the Adirondacks. They have just had their first child, and though Carol is struggling with the challenges of new motherhood, her future seems clear. Until something extraordinary happens: an inexplicable flickering of light in the sky, which is ultimately determined to be communication from intelligent life on another planet. But these beings are eleven light-years away, and nothing is known about them other than the fact that they seem to know we exist, too.
As humanity reels from a shifting understanding of its place in the universe, we follow the stories of the Girard family: Carol, whose fascination with this other life sparks a desperate search for spiritual meaning; Michael, her loyal son, who finds solace not in the stars above his head but in the ground beneath his feet; and Ro, Carol’s bright and ambitious daughter, whose childhood goal to work in interstellar communication will evolve into something far grander.
ORDER LINK: https://www.brickandmortarbooks.com/item/vZsE44oxTHNlbXX5aGsaYg
ABOUT THE AUTHORS:
Django Wexler graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh with degrees in creative writing and computer science, and worked for the university in artificial intelligence research. Eventually he migrated to Microsoft in Seattle, where he now lives with two cats and a teetering mountain of books. When not writing, he wrangles computers, paints tiny soldiers, and plays games of all sorts.
Alexandra Oliva is the author of USA Today bestseller THE RADIANT DARK, FORGET ME NOT, and THE LAST ONE, which was selected as a Best Book of 2016 by The Seattle Times and translated into twenty-five languages. Ali grew up in a tiny town in New York's Adirondack Mountains and received her BA from Yale University and her MFA from The New School. She now lives in the Pacific Northwest with her family.
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