Celebrate LOVE With Matt de la Peña This Week (YA Book Events 1/8-1/14)

Posted on by Zakiya N. Jamal in Blog

After the blizzard snowed out a number of events last week, it’s time to get back to our regularly scheduled author events. Check out the events happening this week and make sure to follow YA Book Events NYC on Twitter to keep up to date with all the bookish events happening around the city.

Tuesday, Jan. 9

Matt de la Peña & Loren Long: Love at Books are Magic (6-7 p.m.)

Join author Matt de la Peña and illustrator Loren Long as they do a special reading and presentation of their new picture book, Love. Free event.

Launching Sara Holland’s Everless at McNally Jackson Books (7 p.m.)

Join Sara Holland as she celebrates the release of her debut novel, Everless, and get your book signed. Free event.

Thursday, Jan. 11

Black Star Renegades by Michael Moreci at Barnes and Noble Tribeca (6 p.m.)

Join Michael Moreci for a talk and signing for his book, Black Star Renegades. Free event; priority seating with purchase of the book at the store.

Published by Zakiya N. Jamal

Zakiya N. Jamal was born in Queens, raised in Long Island, and currently resides in Brooklyn. In other words, she’s a New Yorker through and through. She holds a BA in English from Georgetown University and a MFA in Creative Writing with a concentration in Writing for Children and Young Adults from The New School. She has been published in Romper, BuzzFeed, People.com, Thought Catalog, and more. Her non-fiction essay about her "Cuban Impostor Syndrome" can be found in the Latinx anthology, Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed. You can find her on Twitter at @ZakiyaNJamal.

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s