Join us for our School's Out For Summer Young Adult (YA) Author Event on Sat. June 21st from 12 pm - 4 pm and find some great reads to fill those long summer days! This event will feature four local, young adult book authors (with works primarily geared toward ages 12-18+). Come chat with the authors, sit in on a panel discussion, learn more about writing, and find your next favorite read!
Books will be available for purchase and can be signed/personalized by the authors! Please note that the panel discussion will be recorded for a podcast.
Schedule Below:
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm: Lindsay K. Bandy and L.E. Delano
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm: Panel Discussion Featuring All Four Authors
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm: A.E. Faulkner and Tory Gates
About the Authors:
Lindsay K. Bandy:
Lindsay Bandy writes award-winning historical and time-bending YA fiction that appeals to adult readers, too. She lives in Lancaster County with her husband, two teen daughters, and two cats. If she's not writing or handing out snacks and books to the students in the Conestoga Valley High School Library, she's probably thrifting/upcycling, propagating plants, or taking a really lovely nap.
L.E. Delano:
L.E. DeLano lives in Amish Country, Pennsylvania where she eats too much refined sugar and tries to thwart her cat’s plans for world domination. L.E.’s 2021 novel, BLUE, received six literary awards including the SPARK Award from The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), and a Gold Medal in Young Adult Fiction in the 2022 Reader Views Reviewer’s Choice Awards. Her debut novel, TRAVELER, was a Keystone State Reading Association (KSRA) Secondary Book Awards Finalist for 2018-2019.
A.E. Faulkner:
A.E. Faulkner is a young adult dystopian/speculative fiction author. She has written five books in her Nature’s Fury series, two books in her Divided States series, and contributed three stories to the Gaia Awakens climate change anthologies.
Tory Gates:
Tory Gates has produced books for the Young Adult and Contemporary Fictionworld since 2013. His latest is “How the Story Ends,” along with the Sweet Dreams Series trilogy, and the award-winning “A Moment in the Sun” for Sunbury Press Books.
Tory is also a broadcaster of more than 40 years and is a news anchor for NBC News Radio. His reports can also be heard on WLBR Radio in Lebanon. A Vermont native, Tory lives in Harrisburg.