Name: Local Author’s Book Signing Pre-Release Party
Start: 2026-05-30T12:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-05-30T15:00:00-04:00
Location: Mocama Beer and Coffee

$Local Author\u2019s Book Signing Pre-Release Party$

Authors Jessica Ryan and R. D. G. Lover are hosting an author signing event at Mocama Beer Company to celebrate their upcoming novels. Painter’s Beach and Rose Tide & Rust are both releasing in June, so guests will have the opportunity to purchase their own signed copies before they are released to the public! There will be bundle options of signed books and merchandise. Bundle details coming soon!
Why Mocama Beer Company? It was the place both authors met with previous writing critique groups.
Jessica Ryan, a former Mocama beertender, was inspired by her time behind the bar to write some of her characters as bartenders, with one character who specifically homebrews beer! Amelia Island served as the inspiration for Painter’s Beach, a haunting coastal thriller, set on an island of fun bars and breweries, art markets, bookstores and shark teeth hunting.
R. D. G. Lover was inspired to write her Tides of Amelia Island romance novels by both the locals and the charm of Amelia Island. Originally stemming as a fanfiction of her urban fantasy series about Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the romance novels bring her larger-than-life characters into the mundane life on current day Amelia Island.
Book Blurb:
Painter’s Beach is a dual timeline coastal thriller set on a Florida island. As a hurricane approaches, the newest resident artist becomes entangled in a murder investigation while grieving her partner lost at sea. As small-town drama escalates, she turns to her local bartender to uncover the truth, revealing connections to the island’s past and a haunting maritime mystery. This is Jessica Ryan’s debut novel.
Rose Ride & Rust is an adult contemporary romance that follows Nathan and Sophia, both who are artists, as they find themselves in a compromising situation of being roommates. They both plan to enter a local art competition but run into drama with an abusive ex, an arrest, and an accidental pregnancy. It is the second installment of the Tides of Amelia Island series, following Lover’s debut novel, The Storm & the Sea.