Side Quest Books & Games — Upcoming Author Events & Readings

Side Quest Books & Games · Bow Market, Union Square, Somerville · sidequestbooks.com

3 upcoming author events and readings from Side Quest Books & Games, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All readings in Greater Boston →

Wed Oct 14 · 7pm

Author Horror Event with Jonathan Edward Durham and Christopher Golden

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Jonathan Edward Durham discusses his debut novel Winterset Hollow, in which friends visit the island that inspired their favorite book, a tale of animals preparing for an end-of-summer festival, and find the truth behind it “darker and more dangerous than they ever imagined.” Christopher Golden, a Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson Award winner whose novels include Road of Bones and Carry Me to My Grave, joins him.

$5 plus ticketing fee; redeemable as store credit that evening

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Tue Oct 20 · 7:00pm

Author Event: "Portrait of a Witch Undone" with K. S. Shay

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K. S. Shay discusses her debut novel Portrait of a Witch Undone, in which a disgraced North Shore witch follows her best friend through the empty frame of a painting stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum into the Other Marsh, “a haunting, deadly realm” ruled by the folkloric Lady of the Fens. Tickets are $5, redeemable as store credit on the night, including toward the book.

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Tue Oct 27 · 7:00pm

Book Club w/ the Author, "Homeward for a Spell" by Rebecca Podos

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Rebecca Podos leads a book-club discussion of Homeward for a Spell, a cozy queer romantic fantasy in which a ranger leading her first adventuring party and a bard escaping an arranged marriage fall for each other on a winter quest. The shop credits the book to Podos and Jamie Pacton. Podos, a Lambda Literary Award winner for her YA novels, is also a literary agent.

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