Ehigbor Okosun presents the first book in her action-packed duology inspired by Nigerian mythology.

Ehigbor Okosun: Forged by Blood

The Lambda award-winning author presents her new book of essays.

Jenn Shapland: Thin Skin

Austin Camerata and BookPeople present a day of books and music, with a musician Q&A and instrument petting zoo after storytime.

Musical Storytime

Creator Ashley Robin Franklin will be in conversation with Kat Fajardo to discuss this new YA graphic novel.

Ashley Robin Franklin: The Hills of Estrella Roja

Learn how local journalists can improve the global news industry and change the world.

Cristi Hegranes: Bylines

The amazing author of the Iremonger Trilogy, Little, and Observatory Mansions returns with his new novel – dark, witty, packed with theatrical lore and horrifying secrets, it's a modern tale of one young woman’s struggle to escape her family’s control.

Edward Carey: Edith Holler

Texas' own James Magnuson presents his newest novel, perfectly themed for this holiday season.

James Magnuson: Young Claus

H.E. Edgmon presents the first book in his Ouroboros series.

H.E. Edgmon: Godly Heathens

Queer speculative fiction author H.E. Edgmon talks his new YA fantasy tome Godly Heathens, featuring a nonbinary Seminole protagonist, with moderator and Lipan Apache writer Darcie Little Badger.

H.E. Edgmon at BookPeople

The Austin-based author, in conversation with Ali Hazelwood, presents her debut romance novel.

Naina Kumar: Say You'll Be Mine

Tunnel Vision's CEO and inspiration presents her book that tells you how to deal with that filthy, filthy lucre without losing your socks.

Madeline Pendleton: I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt

Comedian/actor/writer Moshe Kasher has a life story so wild that frankly, it sounds made up: a teenager in Alcoholics Anonymous who becomes a sober ecstasy dealer for raves, a child of deaf parents who helps interpret for deaf clients hiring sex workers, a psychedelic security guard for Burning Man. New memoir Subculture Vulture takes readers on a tour through the subcultures Kasher found himself a part of, and the book’s release is celebrated at this ticketed event with a sure-to-be-hilarious conversation with fellow comic/actor/podcaster Duncan Trussell.– Kat McNevins

An Evening With Moshe Kasher

Author C.L. Clark in her Goodreads review of Jasmine Skye’s new YA romantacy novel said, quote, “Ahhh! Okay! What! Ahhhh! Wait!” How else should one react to a spellbinding sapphic story featuring bone familiars – you know, folks who shift into animals marked by exposed bone? – a witch school called Witch Hall, and feral grandmas? Attend queer-romantic and bigender author Skye’s signing at local lit slingers BookPeople, and I predict you, too, will be going “Ahhh! Okay! What! Ahhhh! Wait!” or something to that effect. – James Scott

Daughter of the Bone Forest Booksigning

All those interested in the spine-tingling genre of Latinx horror will find the collective power rolling off BookPeople this Monday to be undeniable. Heavyweight pen-lifters Cynthia Pelayo and Gabino Iglesias – both Bram Stoker Award winners – will be in conversation on that subject as well as on Pelayo’s newest novel, Forgotten Sisters. The psychological horror novel follows sisters Anna and Jennie as they traverse Chicago’s ghost stories’ many unsettling pathways. Buy a copy from BP, and you’ll be able to get Pelayo’s signature in your book. – James Scott

Latinx Horror Night with Cynthia Pelayo

The Queer Eye star sits down with local activist and author Alicia Roth Weigel for a celebration of his new children’s book, which applauds “all the things that make you extraordinary, unique, and gorgeously YOU.”

Jonathan Van Ness: Gorgeously Me!

Many have said love is a transformative experience, but author Emily Habeck takes this idea one step further. In her newly paperback’d novel, newlyweds Wren and Lewis face a strange debacle: Lewis is slowly becoming a great white shark. While his spirit and intellect remain tragically human, his impulses take on that of the aquatic beast, and Wren struggles to adjust to her husband’s fate as much as the man himself. As goodreads user jay puts it, “the author looked at ‘would you still love me if i was a worm’ and went ‘what if instead of silly, this was actually a sad question.’” Catch Habeck in person and perhaps get your copy signed at BookPeople – quick, before you, too, turn into a cartilage-covered creature. – James Scott

Emily Habeck: Shark Heart

You might say, “Wait, how can any movie that has Natalie Portman fighting herself as a mirror alien have a book version that’s better?” I might respond, “Sounds like you haven’t read Jeff VanderMeer’s mind-bending Southern Reach Trilogy!” BookPeople’s reading group focused on bringing attention to literary materials mined for film adaptations turns their sights to this eco-sci-fi thriller this month: Do the descriptions of Area X outclass cinematic depiction? Do the frightening transformations by the all-women investigative crew give better goosebumps on the page or onscreen? One thing’s for ding-dang sure: You’ll have to crack open the book to be sure. – James Scott