In-Store: YA Pride Panel: Writing Queer Joy for Teens

Event guidelines:

• All guests must be vaccinated to attend, and must provide proof of vaccination in order to enter event.
• All attendees must wear a face mask at all times.
• Tickets are limited to restrict capacity at our store.
• Additional copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.
• A signing will follow the talk.
• Home address is collected for contact tracing purposes; it will not be used otherwise.
• The event will also be broadcast on YouTube:
• As a reminder: If you are not feeling well, please do not come to the event, even if you have a ticket; email us and we'll work it out.

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100% of ticket sales are being donated to (NYC-based LGBTQ+ health center)

Andrea Mosqueda is a Chicana writer. She was born and raised in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley. She currently lives in Brooklyn with her partner and works in the publishing industry as an assistant editor. When she’s not writing or editing, she can be found doing her makeup, drinking too much coffee, and angsting over children’s media. Just Your Local Bisexual Disaster is her first book.

Isaac Fitzsimons (he/him) is a lifetime dabbler in the arts. His background includes performing sketch comedy in college, learning how to play three songs on the banjo, and, of course, writing. He currently lives outside Washington, DC, and does research for an arts advocacy nonprofit in the city.

R. Eric Thomas is a national bestselling author, playwright, and screenwriter. His books include, Here for It, or How to Save Your Soul in America, which was featured as a Read with Jenna pick on NBC's Today, Reclaiming Her Time: The Power of Maxine Waters, co-authored with Helena Andrews-Dyer, and the YA novel Kings of B’more. Eric is the winner of the 2016 Barrymore Award for Best New Play, the 2018 Dramatist Guild Lanford Wilson Award, and was a finalist for the 2017 Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award and three Lambda Literary Awards. He has written on the Peabody Award-winning series Dickinson on AppleTV+ and Better Things on FX. Off the page, Eric is also the long-running host of The Moth StorySlams in Philadelphia, and has been heard multiple times on The Moth Radio Hour, NPR's All Things Considered and It's Been A Minute with Sam Sanders. Website: rericthomas.com

Casey McQuiston is an author of New York Times bestselling romantic comedies like Red, White & Royal Blue and One Last Stop. As a Louisianian living in New York City, Casey enjoys telling long, loud stories and deep-frying things in a kitchen that’s honestly too small for all that. Often also in that tiny kitchen is Pepper, an always-hungry poodle. I Kissed Shara Wheeler is Casey’s first young adult novel.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Books Are Magic, 225 Smith Street, Brooklyn, United States