Mar
30
11:00pm
SECRET IDENTITY
By Kew and Willow Books
Join us on Wednesday, March 30th at 7pm, as we celebrate Alex Segura's newest novel, SECRET IDENTITY!
Combining his expertise crime fiction and comics, Segura introduces us to Carmen Valdez, an assistant at Triumph Comics in the 70s who is trying to make her break as a comic book writer. When her colleague is found dead after turning in scripts Carmen co-wrote without her name on them, Carmen is determined to figure out what happened.
Conversation will be moderated by voice-over professional Aida Reluzco, narrator of the SECRET IDENTITY audiobook.
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Alex Segura is an acclaimed, award-winning writer of novels, comic books, short stories, and podcasts. He is the author of the upcoming noir novel, Secret Identity (Flatiron Books), Star Wars Poe Dameron: Free Fall, and the Pete Fernandez Mystery series. His border noir short story, “90 Miles” won the 2021 Anthony Award for Best Short Story and was included in The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2021. His 2020 story, "Red Zone," also won the Anthony Award in the category.
Alex has also written a number of comic books, most notably the superhero noir The Black Ghost, the YA music series The Archies, and the upcoming all-ages superhero adventure The Dusk. He is also the co-creator/co-writer of the Lethal Lit crime/YA podcast from iHeart Radio, which was named one of the best podcasts of 2018 by The New York Times. By day he is the Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Oni Press, with previous stints at Archie Comics and DC Comics.
A Miami native, he lives in New York with his wife and children.
Aida Reluzco arrived on the voice-over scene in 2018 as a multidisciplinary artist, bringing with her a background in the performing arts, classical art history, illustration, literature, poetry, and spoken word. A New York native, LGBTQ activist, and bilingual Cuban American, Reluzco provides an authentic connection to the human condition from a queer Latinx perspective. Her portfolio includes work with Audible, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, Hachette Audio, and Dreamscape Media, as well as commercial voice-over and video game audio both under her own name, and romantic narration under the pseudonym Valentina Ortiz.
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