Christopher Rowe for The Navigating Fox In Conversation with Meg Shaffer

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Thursday, November 2, 2023 - 7:00pm
2720 Frankfort Ave
Louisville, KY 40206

Quintus Shu'al, the world's only navigating fox, is in disgrace after guiding an expedition to its doom, leaving no survivors. One year later, Quintus is offered the chance to redeem himself: he will need to lead a motley, fractious team--both human and animal--all the way to the gates of Hell. 

 

Christopher Rowe is the author of the acclaimed story collection Telling the Map, as well as a middle grade series, the Supernormal Sleuthing Service, co-written with his wife, author Gwenda Bond. He has been a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Neukom, and Theodore Sturgeon Awards. He lives in a hundred-year-old house in Lexington, Kentucky, with his wife and their many unruly pets.

Meg Shaffer is a part-time creative writing instructor and a full-time MFA candidate in TV and Screenwriting at Stephens College, Columbia, Missouri. Find her online or at home, watching Hitchcock films and/or writing Star Trek fan fiction when she should be doing her homework.

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The Navigating Fox By Christopher Rowe Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781250804501
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Published: Tordotcom - September 26th, 2023

The Navigating Fox is a fantastical fable of "knowledgeable creatures", in the vein of Brian Jacques's Redwall series but for adults, by Hugo and Nebula Award finalist Christopher Rowe

"Half fable, half caper, and a pure joy to read."—Holly Black, New York Times bestselling author of Book of Night


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The Wishing Game: A Novel By Meg Shaffer Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593598832
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Published: Ballantine Books - May 30th, 2023

Years ago, a reclusive mega-bestselling children’s author quit writing under mysterious circumstances. Suddenly he resurfaces with a brand-new book and a one-of-a-kind competition, offering a prize that will change the winner’s life in this absorbing and whimsical novel.


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There's nothing like it; you have to read it." --Alix E. Harrow, author of The Starling House A fantastical fable of "knowledgeable creatures", in the vein of Brian Jacques's Redwall series but for adults.