Tubby & Coos Mid-City Bookshop is pleased to present a virtual  author panel with C.L. Polk, S.L. Huang, & Jessie Mihalik to  celebrate the release of C.L. Polk’s new book, Even Though I Knew the End. The authors will discuss love in SF/F, from family to friendship to romance. This event will be held digitally via Crowdcast.

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ABOUT EVEN THOUGH I KNEW THE END BY C.L. POLK

C. L. Polk turns their considerable powers to a fantastical noir with Even Though I Knew the End.

“Stylish supernatural noir with a heart and a thrumming pulse. I devoured it.”—Laini Taylor

A magical detective dives into the affairs of Chicago’s divine monsters  to secure a future with the love of her life. This sapphic period piece  will dazzle anyone looking for mystery, intrigue, romance, magic, or all  of the above.

An exiled augur who sold her soul to save her  brother’s life is offered one last job before serving an eternity in  hell. When she turns it down, her client sweetens the pot by offering up  the one payment she can’t resist—the chance to have a future where she  grows old with the woman she loves.

To succeed, she is given three  days to track down the White City Vampire, Chicago’s most notorious  serial killer. If she fails, only hell and heartbreak await.

From Hugo Award Winner S. L. Huang Burning Roses is a gorgeous fairy tale of love and family, of demons and lost gods, for fans of Zen Cho and Neon Yang.

Rosa, also known as Red Riding Hood, is done with wolves and woods.

Hou Yi the Archer is tired, and knows she’s past her prime.

They would both rather just be retired, but that’s not what the world has ready for them.

When  deadly sunbirds begin to ravage the countryside, threatening everything  they’ve both grown to love, the two must join forces. Now blessed and  burdened with the hindsight of middle age, they begin a quest that’s a  reckoning of sacrifices made and mistakes mourned, of choices and family  and the quest for immortality.

Acclaimed  author Jessie Mihalik returns with an exciting new novel about a  rainbow-haired female bounty hunter tasked with preventing an  interstellar war.

Kee Ildez has been many things: hacker,  soldier, bounty hunter. She never expected to be a hero, but when a  shadowy group of traitors starts trying to goad the galaxy’s two  superpowers into instigating an interstellar war, Kee throws herself  into the search to find out who is responsible—and stop them.

Digging  up hidden information is her job, so hunting traitors should be a piece  of cake, but the primary suspect spent years in the military, and  someone powerful is still covering his tracks. Disrupting their plans  will require the help of her entire team, including Varro Runkow, a  Valovian weapons expert who makes her pulse race.

Quiet, grumpy,  and incredibly handsome, Varro watches her with hot eyes but ignores all  of her flirting, so Kee silently vows to keep her feelings strictly  platonic. But that vow will be put to the test when she and Varro are  forced to leave the safety of their ship and venture into enemy  territory alone.

Cut off from the rest of their team, they must  figure out how to work together—and fast—because a single misstep will  cost thousands of lives.

Love in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Panel With C.L. Polk, S.L. Huang, & Jessie Mihalik