Mar
16
1:00am
Bethany Baptiste discussing THE POISONS WE DRINK with Liselle Sambury
By Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore
About the Authors
Bethany Baptiste is an inner-city educator by day and a young adult SFF novelist by night. If she’s not writing a lesson plan or a story, she does retail therapy in Florida bookstores and takes scheduled naps with her three chaotic evil dogs. The Poisons We Drink is her YA debut.
Liselle Sambury is a Trinidadian-Canadian author who writes genre-blended speculative fiction with dark themes, complicated families, and edges of hope. Her debut novel Blood Like Magic garnered multiple starred reviews and is a Governor General’s Literary Awards Finalist, and its sequel Blood Like Fate was called “A worthy follow-up to a stellar debut,” by Kirkus. Her most recent novel, Delicious Monsters, a Barnes & Noble YA Pick, explores what it means to be haunted by more than the dead. In her free time, she shares helpful tips for upcoming writers and details of her publishing journey on her YouTube channel dedicated to demystifying the sometimes complicated business of being an author.
About THE POISONS WE DRINK
The Poisons We Drink is a potent YA debut about a world where love potions are weaponized against hate and prejudice, sisterhood is unbreakable, and self-love is life and death.
In a country divided between humans and witchers, Venus Stoneheart hustles as a brewer making illegal love potions to support her family.
Love potions is a dangerous business. Brewing has painful, debilitating side effects, and getting caught means death or a prison sentence. But what Venus is most afraid of is the dark, sentient magic within her.
Then an enemy's iron bullet kills her mother, Venus’s life implodes. Keeping her reckless little sister Janus safe is now her responsibility. When the powerful Grand Witcher, the ruthless head of her coven, offers Venus the chance to punish her mother's killer, she has to pay a steep price for revenge. The cost? Brew poisonous potions to enslave D.C.'s most influential politicians.
As Venus crawls deeper into the corrupt underbelly of her city, the line between magic and power blurs, and it's hard to tell who to trust… Herself included.
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