Booktok Convention Novels & Stories

"Tuesdays are difficult." Elion laughed. "Yeah. Tuesdays." "Elion?" "Yeah?" "There is an event," Cale said. "Tonight." "What event?" "The bookstore in town. The turning Page. They posted a flyer. 'Local Author Night'." "I'm not a local author. I've lived here for six months." "You have a deed. You pay taxes. You are local." "I didn't tell them about the book." "I did," Cale said. Elion dropped the book. "You what?"

Bella Pov I found out about Karen's book tour on a Wednesday morning when Tanya sent me a link with three exclamation marks. Karen Tyler was doing a Q&A at Ridgeline Books on Saturday afternoon. The caption on the event page said "an honest conversation about healing, survival, and reclaiming your truth." I read it twice and felt sick. She was coming to our city. The woman who had written a bestselling book full of lies about my life was coming here to sell it in person.

Stephan removed the card and laid the two halves side by side on his desk. He and his coven were cordially invited to the vampire ball party of the 2018 Spring Conference to be held at Baaltech Industries in two nights. Oh, it was that time again. Baal hosted this big event every year, with vampires from around the world in attendance, and their coven masters met in secret conferences to discuss relevant issues of modern-day vampire life. Whiny little bastards.

“We were just reviewing the skeleton for the book festival. We have less than two weeks.” “Oh,” I said, the single syllable trailing behind me. “Who's the guest speaker?” I asked hoping I'll get involved in the conversation. “Linda Lively,” April answered. “We already spoke to the director about it.” “We haven't settled on the venue,” Arian said, still not looking at me “I tried again, hoping he would even listen to me. “Arian, can we use a…” He cut me off, still scribbling. “This part of the discussion is for old members and the planning committee.” His words were calm, almost too calm, but the dismissal stung like spirit on a fresh wound.