Dark Summer Book Fest

Dark Summer Book Fest is in just under three months! Join us on Saturday, August 8th at the Framingham Public Library @frampub in Framingham, MA. #darksummerbookfest #framinghampubliclibrary #framinghamma #cityofframingham #bookstagram

It’s Guest of Honor announcement time! We’re very excited to welcome Andrew Joseph White @ajwhiteauthor to the library this summer as our Youth Literature Guest of Honor! Join us for Dark Summer Book Fest at the Framingham Public Library @frampub on Saturday, August 8th. “Andrew Joseph White is the bestselling author of Hell Followed With Us, You Weren’t Meant to Be Human, and more. Born and raised in the Shenandoah Valley, he received his MFA in Creative Writing from George Mason University, and lives in Virginia with his wife and their cranky cat.” #darksummerbookfest #yalit #yabooks #yahorror #framinghampubliclibrary

We’ve got picture books, kids comics, chapter books, and more headed your way this summer. Dark Summer Book Fest is an all ages event with something for everyone! Join us at the Framingham Public Library @frampub on Saturday, August 8th. #darksummerbookfest #kidlit #picturebooks #kidsbooks #framinghampubliclibrary

Cults, and gothic castles, and unknowable gods, and beauty that comes with a cost! It’ll all be here this summer, and horror week is the time to announce the authors responsible for it! Join us at the Framingham Public Library @frampub on Saturday, August 8th for all this and more @darksummerbookfest 👻🧹🧟‍♂️ ☠️🔮🐈‍⬛️ @eksathue @renee_s._decamillis @leilasidd13 @alexispowellstories #FPLreads #FraminghamPublicLibrary #DarkSummer #DarkSummerBookFest #BookTalk #DarkRomance [Video description: A video with photos of all the above authors and their books.]

Kids love creepy too, and for them, Alexis Powell @alexispowellstories is joining us this summer! Dark Summer Book Fest is Saturday, August 8th at the Framingham Public Library @frampub . “Alexis Powell holds an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts and a Certificate in Publishing from the Denver Publishing Institute. She lives in San Diego with her partner, copious amounts of plants, and an adorable pet snake named Sycamore.” #darksummerbookfest #horrorbooks #horror #middlegradehorror #framinghampubliclibrary

Get excited, because Leila Siddiqui @leilasidd13 will be at the library this summer! Dark Summer Book Fest is Saturday, August 8th at the Framingham Public Library @frampub . “Leila Siddiqui is a Chicago-born Texan who calls New York home. She is currently the co-host of Come Play With Us, a spooky storytelling podcast, and also works in publishing in the marketing department. Leila spent a childhood fascinated by history and horror, and how intricately both can be entwined, and now wants to write the kind of fantastical and strange fiction she loved to read growing up, by shedding light on pieces of history the rest of the world tends to forget or write off. She is a horror film devotee and when not writing, spends her time crafting and fawning over her very floofy cats. She lives with her partner in Queens.” #darksummerbookfest #horrorbooks #horror #horrorbookstagram #framinghampubliclibrary

Very excited to welcome Shane Hawk @shane.hawk to the library this summer! Dark Summer Book Fest is Saturday, August 8th at the Framingham Public Library @frampub . “Shane Hawk (Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma) is a horror writer, editor, and creator of the Native Horror Index. He serves as a contributing editor at Counterpoint Press, where he exclusively acquires and edits works by Native and First Nations writers. His writing career began in 2020 with the release of his short story collection Anoka. Hawk is the coeditor of the bestselling anthology series Never Whistle at Night and cowriter of the horror stage play The Land Has Spoken. He lives in San Diego, California, with his wife and daughter.” #darksummerbookfest #horrorbooks #indigenoushorror #neverwhistleatnight #framinghampubliclibrary

Horror Week continues with Renee S. DeCamillis @renee_s._decamillis ! Join us for Dark Summer Book Fest at the Framingham Public Library @frampub on Saturday, August 8th. “Renee S. DeCamillis is a horror author and editor. Her books include The Bone Cutters, Book 1 in The Bone Cutters series, Chisel the Bone, Book 2 in the series, and Try Not To Die: By Your Own Hand, an interactive choose your own path charity novel about suicide ideation. Her short fiction appears in various anthologies, and her poetry appears in the HWA Poetry Showcase Volume IV. Renee is a member of the Horror Writers Association and the New England Horror Writers. She has worked as an editor for Crystal Lake Publishing, Wicked House Publishing, and is currently an editor for Vincere Press and an editor for hire at Reedsy. Renee is also the lead singer/songwriter and rhythm guitarist for the punk-metal band Scars Aligned. She earned a BA in psychology, an MFA in Popular Fiction Writing, and attended Berklee College of Music as a music business major with guitar as her principal instrument. Renee is a former model, school rock band teacher, creative writing teacher, private guitar instructor, A&R rep for an indie record label, therapeutic mentor, psychological technician, and preschool teacher. She is also a former gravedigger; she can get rid of a body fast without leaving a trace, and she is not afraid to get her hands dirty. This tree-hugging hippie with a sharp metal edge runs feral in the woods of Maine, making pit stops with her husband and their son in a house full of ghosts.” #darksummerbookfest #horrorbooks #horror #horrorbookstagram #framinghampubliclibrary

Kicking off Horror Week, we’ve got E.K. Sathue @eksathue joining us at the library this summer! Join us for Dark Summer Book Fest at the Framingham Public Library @frampub on Saturday, August 8th. “E.K. Sathue is the author of YOUTHJUICE and FAN CLUB (as Erin Mayer). Her work has been nominated for a Maine Literary Award in speculative fiction and selected by Barnes & Noble as one of the Best Horror Books of the Year in 2024. She has been featured in the New York Times, NY Post, Portland Press Herald, Electric Literature, and more. A lifelong New Yorker, she now lives in Maine with her partner, the author Benjamin Perry, and their beloved haunted doll, Persephone.” #darksummerbookfest #horrorbooks #horror #horrorbookstagram #framinghampubliclibrary

Cults, and gothic castles, and unknowable gods, and beauty that comes with a cost! It’ll all be here this summer, and horror week is the time to announce the authors responsible for it! Join us at the Framingham Public Library @frampub on Saturday, August 8th. #darksummerbookfest #horrorbooks #horror #horrorbookstagram #framinghampubliclibrary

It’s time to wrap up genre-hopper announcement week, and we’ve got a good one for you. Horror, comedy, poetry, running an indie publisher, Christoph Paul @christophpaul_ does it all! Join us for Dark Summer Book Fest at the Framingham Public Library @frampub on Saturday, August 8th. “Christoph Paul is the EIC of CLASH Books and an award-winning humor and horror author. He is the Singer/Songwriter of The Dionysus Effect, and the forthcoming Goth rock band Doriana Gray. He has a flip horror book with two novellas The Last House on Earth & Death Walks South Boston, and the chaos magick horror novel Cosplay to Death forthcoming with Shortwave Publishing.” #darksummerbookfest #genrehopping #indiepublishing #horrorbooks #framinghampubliclibrary

Rob Hart @robwhart1 is equally as comfortable with hard boiled crime fiction, satirical spy thrillers, and sci-fi adventures, and he’ll be at the library this summer! Join us for Dark Summer Book Fest at the Framingham Public Library @frampub on Saturday, August 8th. “Rob Hart is the USA TODAY bestselling author of the Assassins Anonymous series, as well as The Paradox Hotel, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award that was named one of the best books of 2022 by NPR, and The Warehouse, which sold in more than 20 languages around the world. He is also the author of the Ash McKenna crime series, the short story collection Take-Out, the novella Scott Free with James Patterson, the novel Dark Space with Alex Segura, and the comic book Blood Oath, also with Segura. He also co-wrote Detour with Jeff Rake, creator and showrunner of Netflix’s Manifest. Rob is the former publisher for MysteriousPress.com and was the class director at LitReactor. He has also worked as a political reporter and the communications director for a politician, and was a commissioner for the city of New York. He is currently a writing mentor in the Writing Popular Fiction MFA program at Seton Hill University.” #darksummerbookfest #genrehopping #crimefiction #scifibooks #framinghampubliclibrary