When legends bite back! Local author Nicole Wolverton joins us in conversation with Stephanie Willing to discuss Nicole’s new YA horror/suspense novel, A Misfortune of Lake Monsters. Both authors will have books available for signing — to reserve your copies, please use the Add to Cart button on this page.
Lemon Ziegler wants to escape rural Devil’s Elbow, Pennsylvania to attend college — but that’s impossible now that she’s expected to impersonate the town’s lake monster for the rest of her life. Her family has been secretly keeping the tradition of Old Lucy, the famed (and very fake) monster of Lake Lokakoma, alive for generations, all to keep the tourists coming. Without Lemon, the town dies, and she can’t disappoint her grandparents . . . or tell her best friends about any of it. That includes Troy Ramirez, who has been covertly in love with Lemon for years, afraid to ruin their friendship by confessing his feelings. When a very real, and very hungry monster is discovered in the lake, secrets must fall by the wayside. Determined to stop the monster, Lemon and her best friends are the only thing standing between Devil’s Elbow and the monster out for blood.
Nicole M. Wolverton is a fear enthusiast who grew up in the rural hinterlands of northeast Pennsylvania, wondering what lurked in the cornfields outside her bedroom window. Her curiosity about what terrible things might lay in wait in the dark only deepened after moving to Philadelphia after high school.
Today, Nicole is a Pushcart-nominated writer of (mostly) speculative and horror fiction for adults and young adults. In addition to A Misfortune of Lake Monsters, she is the author of The Trajectory of Dreams, a 2013 adult psychological thriller. She was Editor of the 2021 anthology of short fiction Bodies Full of Burning, exploring horror through the lens of menopause — the first of its kind. Her short fiction, creative nonfiction, and essays have appeared in over forty anthologies, magazines, and podcasts.
Nicole will be appearing in conversation with Stephanie Willing, author of the middle-grade fantasy West of the Sea — as well as the voice of Lemon Ziegler in the audiobook of A Misfortune of Lake Monsters.