Michael Underwood Author Event
We are pleased to welcome our friend Michael Underwood to the store to celebrate his debut novel, Geekomancy. Michael will visit the store on Tuesday, July 17th from 7-8:30 p.m. This is a free wine and cheese event and reservations are requested. For more information about this event or to reserve your space, please call us at 231-347-1180 or send us an email.
Michael will discuss his book, and eBook original, which he can digitally sign but he will also be taking questions about the status of the bookselling industry as a whole. This is going to be a super event and perfect for sci-fi and fantasy fans as well as anyone who has loved Name of the Wind, Ready Player One or any of our other staff favorite sci-fi books.
Clerks meets Buffy the Vampire the Slayer in this original urban fantasy eBook about Geekomancers—humans that derive supernatural powers from pop culture.
Ree
Reyes’s life was easier when all she had to worry about was scraping
together tips from her gig as a barista and comicshop slave to pursue
her ambitions as a screenwriter. When a scruffy-looking guy storms
into the shop looking for a comic like his life depends on it, Ree
writes it off as just another day in the land of the geeks. Until a
gigantic “BOOM!” echoes from the alley a minute later, and Ree follows
the rabbit hole down into her town’s magical flip-side. Here, astral
cowboy hackers fight trolls, rubber-suited werewolves, and elegant
Gothic Lolita witches while wielding nostalgia-powered props. Ree
joins Eastwood (aka Scruffy Guy), investigating a mysterious string of
teen suicides as she tries to recover from her own
drag-your-heart-through-jagged-glass breakup. But as she digs deeper,
Ree discovers Eastwood may not be the knight-in-cardboard armor she
thought. Will Ree be able to stop the suicides, save Eastwood from
himself, and somehow keep her job?
Michael R. Underwood grew up devouring stories in all forms: movies, comics, TV, video games, and novels. He holds a B.A. in Creative Mythology and East Asian Studies from Indiana University and an M.A. in Folklore Studies from the University of Oregon, which have been great preparation for writing speculative fiction. Michael went straight from his M.A. to the Clarion West Writers Workshop and then landed in Bloomington, Indiana, where he remains. When not writing or selling books across the Midwest as an independent book representative, Michael dances Argentine Tango and studies renaissance martial arts.