Blue Bicycle Books

Join us Fri., July 1, 5 pm for Jenn Marie Thorne as she signs copies of her newest book – The Inside of Out (Dial Books, hb., 432 pp, $18).

About The Inside of Out: When her best friend Hannah comes out the day before junior year, Daisy is all set to let her ally flag fly. Before you can spell LGBTQIA, she’s leading the charge to end their school’s antiquated ban on same-sex dates at dances—starting with homecoming. And if people assume Daisy herself is gay? Meh, so what. It’s all for Hannah, right? It’s all for the cause. What Daisy doesn’t expect is for “the cause” to blow up—thanks to Adam, the cute college journalist whose interview with Daisy for his college newspaper goes viral, catching fire in the national media. With the story spinning out of control, protesters gathering, Hannah left in the dust of Daisy’s good intentions, and Daisy’s attraction to Adam practically written in lights, Daisy finds herself caught between her bold plans, her bad decisions, and her big fat mouth.

About Jenn Marie Thorne: Jenn Marie Thorne writes YA fiction from a lovely seaside town in Florida, alongside her dashing husband, two daring toddlers, and trusty hound Molly. An NYU-Tisch grad with a BFA in Drama, Jenn still enjoys making a fool of herself on at least a weekly basis. Other hobbies include writing about herself in the third-person, studying classical voice, learning languages, and traveling the world with her family.

Join us Tues., May 24, 5 pm for the Hometown Release Party for Leah Rhyne‘s Heartless (Polis Books, hb., 320 pp, $19). There will be wine, there will be cake, it will be epic.

About Heartless: Jolene Hall is dead — sort of. She walks, thinks, and talks, but her heart no longer beats. A contemporary retelling of Frankenstein, Heartless follows Jolene, her best friend, and her boyfriend as they follow a treacherous trail to find out who has turned her into a monster, and who’s next.

Leah Rhyne is a Jersey girl who’s lived in the South so long she’s lost her accent…but never her attitude. After spending her childhood watching movies like Star Wars, Alien, and A Nightmare On Elm Street, and reading Stephen King, Leah now spends her days writing tales of horror and science fiction. Her short fiction has appeared in such publications as Abyss & Apex Magazine and Revolt Daily. She writes for LitReactor.com, and for herself at leahrhyne.com. Leah lives with her husband, daughter, and a small menagerie of pets in Charleston, South Carolina.

Join us Wed., May 25, 5:30 pm as we welcome Rick Yancey, hot on the release of The Last Star (Putnam, 352 pp, hb., $19), the final installment in The 5th Wave Series.

About the book: The enemy is Other. The enemy is us. They’re down here, they’re up there, they’re nowhere. They want the Earth, they want us to have it. They came to wipe us out, they came to save us. Beneath all these riddles lies one truth: Cassie has been betrayed. So has Ringer. Zombie. Nugget. And all 7.5 billion people who used to live on our planet. Betrayed first by the Others, and now by ourselves. In these last days, Earth’s remaining survivors will need to decide what’s more important: saving themselves . . . or saving what makes us human.

Rick Yancey is the author of The New York Times bestsellers The 5th Wave, The Infinite Sea, several adult novels, and the memoir Confessions of a Tax Collector. When he isn’t writing or thinking about writing or traveling the country talking about writing, Rick is hanging out with his family.

Piccolo Fiction presented by Blue Bicycle Books

Sat., June 4, 5 pm

Charleston Music Hall

37 John St.

(843) 722-2666

The festival’s longest-running event exclusively devoted to fiction, Piccolo Fiction invites local authors to present brief short stories. This year’s reading will be in the historic Charleston Music Hall, and, following recent tradition, each story will begin with the words “I ducked into the alley…”

The 2016 event will double as the release party for Charleston native Grady Hendrix’s new novel My Best Friend’s Exorcism – think Mean Girls with demonic possession, set in 1988 Mt. Pleasant.

Since 2000, Piccolo Fiction has featured dozens of S.C. writers, with stories broadcast by S.C. Public Radio and published in the Charleston City Paper.

Featured authors:

Grady Hendrix (My Best Friend’s Exorcism) is also the author of Horrorstör, set in a haunted Scandinavian furniture superstore, recently optioned for TV by Charlie Kaufman (Adaptation). His stories about UFO cults and killer Chinese parasites have appeared in Strange Horizons, Pseudopod, and The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination. He and his wife, chef Amanda Cohen, are the authors of Dirt Candy, the world’s first graphic novel cookbook. He grew up in Mt. Pleasant and lives in New York City.

Joseph Hasinger holds an MFA in fiction from Hollins University.  His writing can be found in places like the Citron Review and Jersey Devil Press, among others. He lives in Charleston with his wife and two children.

Valerie Perry received a B.A. in English and German from the College of Charleston in 1985 and is the manager of the Aiken–Rhett House for Historic Charleston Foundation. She published her first novel Upper King Street in 2010, followed by Letters from Della in 2014. She is currently working on her third novel.

Leah Rhyne is a Jersey girl who’s been in the South so long she’s lost her accent…but never her attitude. She recently published her first novel Heartless, a modern take take on the classic Frankenstein tale, as told from the monster’s perspective. She lives in Charleston with her husband, daughter, and a small menagerie of pets. In her barely-there spare time, she loves running.