MG 18th Birthday Bash -- Spotlight Authors, Cake, and Celebration!

Spotlight on D.J. MacHale Signing Morpheus Road: The Black 10:00 AM

Spotlight on Janni Lee Simner Signing Faerie Winter 11:00 AM

Award-winning author Janni Lee Simner returns with Faerie Winter, the sequel to her magical post-apocalypse young adult novel, Bones of Faerie. Decades after the war between the humans and the faeries nearly destroyed both worlds, the human world seems to be starting to accept those born with magical powers – until the possibility of the Faeries reigniting the battle, led by their Queen, arises. Readers who missed her contemporary fantasy based on Icelandic sagas, Thief Eyes, can check it out during her 11:00 spotlight.

Spotlight on Earlene Fowler Signing Spider Web Noon

Earlene Fowler has been a Birthday Bash spotlight author multiple times, and we are delighted to welcome her back to the noon spotlight with her new Benni Harper novel, Spider Web. San Celina is holding a memory festival, and the Coffin Star Quilt Guild has a special quilt on display. However, a shooter targeting police officers not only disrupts the celebration, but also causes an emotional disruption for Benni and her husband, the chief of police. Earlene will discuss managing the San Celina residents’ time-line in real time. Visit her website for a chance to win a San Celina Police Department cap.

Spotlight on Jonathan Hayes Signing A Hard Death 1:00 PM

Jonathan Hayes is a British forensic pathologist and writer living and working in New York City, the setting for Precious Blood, his first novel about New York City Medical Examiner Edward Jenner, now relocated to Florida. The now disgraced Jenner takes a temporary job as a medical examiner in a resort community, only to end up investigating when his former mentor and several migrant workers suffer A Hard Death. Jonathan also travels in his roles as a food and travel journalist, as well as a guest lecturer on forensics. Jonathan will join Christopher at 1:00 PM to discuss how the devil is in the details.

Spotlight on Jack Campbell Signing The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier: Dreadnaught 3:30 PM

Retired U.S. Navy officer Jack Campbell returns to San Diego and visits MG for the first time as the spotlight finale to our Birthday Bash, starting at 3:30 PM. The Lost Fleet series chronicles the adventures of Captain John “Black Jack” Geary as he leads the Alliance against the Syndics after a century of hibernation. Dreadnaught launches his new incarnation as Admiral Geary of the First Fleet. (See Patrick’s review on his page.) Fans of his works as John G. Hemry will be glad to know that his Stark’s War series is scheduled to be reissued starting in August, and his Paul Sinclair/JAG in Space titles will be re-released next May.