Shades & Shadows is turning 4! We began with a promise: To bring genre fiction authors and fans together from across the spectrum, to create a platform for authors and fans to discover each other, and to have an absolute blast while doing it.
Well, after four years, we can say this: You ain’t seen nothin’ yet. But you will! Come see our show on September 16th and help us ring in the beginning of Year 5.
Featuring:
Steven Barnes
Rebecca Gomez Farrell
Robert Payne Cabeen
Aditi Khorana
Meg Howrey
and one more TBA.
And if you’ve been to our birthday shows before, you know that means one other thing: Cake. Come and get it.
Doors at 8 p.m.
Show at 8:30 p.m.
The Mystic Museum is located at:
3204 Magnolia Blvd.
Burbank, CA 91505
Tickets are $10. Online coming soon, door sales if there are any left.
RSVP on Facebook here.
CARLOS ALLENDE is a novelist. His first book, Cuadrillas y Contradanzas, a historical drama set during the War of Reform in Mexico, was very good but barely anyone read it. Never self-publish. The second one, Love, or the Witches of Windward Circle, set in Venice, California, throughout the first half of the 20th century, has had a little more success. He was a panelist at the LA Times Festival of Books, got a few good reviews, and was invited to a couple of readings.
Nicole Maggi 
Sebastian Bendix 
Kit Reed is an American Author of both speculative fiction and literary fiction, as well as psychological thrillers, and has published upwards of thirty novels and too many short stories to count. She was a Guggenheim fellow and a recipient of a five year grant from the Abraham Woursell Foundation.
C.B. Lee is a bisexual writer based in California. She is a first-generation Asian American and has a BA in Sociology and Environmental Science, which occasionally comes in handy in her chosen career, but not usually. Lee enjoys reading, hiking and other outdoor pursuits.
Natashia Deón
Nalo Hopkinson 
Jennifer Brody is a graduate of Harvard University, a creative writing instructor at the Writing Pad, and a volunteer mentor for the Young Storytellers Foundation. She founded and runs BookPod, a social media group for authors, and she lives and writes in LA. After studying film at Harvard University, she began her career in Hollywood. Highlights include working for Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes and New Line Cinema, most notably on “The Lord of the Rings” films and “The Golden Compass.” In 2008, she produced the film “Make It Happen” for The Weinstein Company. She is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) and the Romance Writers of America (RWA).
Mike Robinson has been writing since age 7, when his story “Aliens In My Backyard!” became a runaway bestseller, topping international charts (or maybe that was also just a product of his imagination). He has since published fiction in a dozen magazines, literary anthologies and podcasts. His debut novel, Skunk Ape Semester, released by Solstice Publishing, was a Finalist in the 2012 Next Generation Indie Book Awards.
Forrest Leo was born in a log cabin in 1990. He grew up in Alaska, and holds a BFA in drama from NYU/Tisch. While living in New York, he worked as a carpenter, a photographer, and in a cubicle. He now lives in LA, where he worked at Walgreens for a day. He writes novels, plays, and screenplays. His debut novel, The Gentleman, was published by Penguin Press in 2016.
David G. Boyd is co-editor of Inventory, a translation journal from Princeton University. He has translated stories by Toh EnJoe, Genichiro Takahashi and Hyakken Uchida. His work has appeared in Monkey Business, Words Without Borders and Granta. David’s translation of Slow Boat, a novel by Hideo Furukawa, will be out this June from Pushkin Press.
and co-host Lauren Candia has been blinding Los Angeles and the Inland Empire with library science for over a decade. When not planning literary events, she writes creepy stories and is currently working on her first YA novel. Her work can be found in the East Jasmine Review and the Los Angeles Times. Her science fiction short story, “Miracles in Wastelands”, appeared on display at the dA Center for the Arts as part of The Art In/Of Diversity collaborative project. She will be your BFF on Facebook and Twitter (@ParanormaLauren). All you have to do is ask. You may wish to catch her on Instagram as well if you don’t mind being inundated with pictures of her adorable dog and the man who gives her a reason to smile every day.
Lisa Morton 
S.B. Divya is a lover of science, math, fiction, and the Oxford comma. When she isn’t designing high speed communications systems, raising her daughter, scratching the cats, or enjoying dinner with her husband, she writes. In her past, she’s used a telescope to find Orion’s nebula, scuba dived with manta rays, and climbed to the top of a thousand year old stupa. She holds degrees in Computational Neuroscience and Signal Processing, and she is currently Assistant Editor for Escape Pod. Her short stories have been published in various magazines, including Lightspeed and Daily Science Fiction, and her writing appears in the indie game Rogue Wizards. Her near future science-fiction novella, Runtime, was released by Tor.com Publications in May, 2016. You can find more online at 
Carmen Lau is the author of The Girl Wakes (Alternating Current, 2016), a collection of short stories and novellas. She received her MA in Creative Writing from UC Davis and currently resides in Atascadero, where she is training to become a psychiatric technician. She occasionally blogs at 
Michael Marshall Smith 
Gene O’Neill 
Brian Evenson is the author of a dozen books of fiction, most recently the story collection Windeye (Coffee House Press 2012) and the novel Immobility (Tor 2012), both of which were finalists for a Shirley Jackson Award. His novel Last Days won the American Library Association’s award for Best Horror Novel of 2009). His novel The Open Curtain (Coffee House Press) was a finalist for an Edgar Award and an International Horror Guild Award. Other books include The Wavering Knife (which won the IHG Award for best story collection), Dark Property, and Altmann’s Tongue. He has translated work by Christian Gailly, Jean Frémon, Claro, Jacques Jouet, Eric Chevillard, Antoine Volodine, Manuela Draeger, David B., and others. He is the recipient of three O. Henry Prizes as well as an NEA fellowship.His work has been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese and Slovenian.
Paul Tremblay 
Vesta Vaingloria
