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SUMMARY:Steve Gellman: Somewhere in Nowhere Book Signing
DESCRIPTION:Browseabout books will host Steven Gellman for a book signing f
 or his new book Somewhere in Nowhere on Sunday July 19th at 1:30 PM.\n\nAb
 out the Book\n\nComing out is hard\, especially when you have two gay moms
 . At least it is for Simon Bugg. He doesn’t want the world to think that
  having gay parents has turned him gay. And he certainly doesn’t want an
 yone to know about the alien in his stomach that’s trying to kill him.\n
 \nIt’s Simon’s senior year and his world just turned upside down. When
  his mom scores a dream job\, Simon lands at a new school away from the on
 ly friends he has ever known. Now\, his mom is overworked and chronically 
 stressed\, and his deadbeat dad is back on the scene. Navigating a new sch
 ool and new friends is a challenge for a neurotic overthinker\, and Simon 
 finds himself turning to his rescue cat and a local barista for support. B
 ut when Simon meets the handsome PJ in drama class\, he gets talked into a
  date that he derails in spectacular fashion.\n\nWith a little help from h
 is friends—new and old—Simon finds his way back to PJ. But how can he 
 have a real relationship with the boy of his dreams when he’s convinced 
 he’s going to die? No one knows about the nightly alien attacks at 11:22
 . Why then\, and why do they keep getting worse? Simon must face a dark se
 cret inside before he loses his chance with the boy he loves.\n\nAbout the
  Author\n\nSteven Gellman is an award-winning songwriter turned author. In
 spired by his early love for Judy Blume’s groundbreaking stories\, Steve
 n has found his passion for writing coming-of-age fiction that centers LGB
 TQ+voices and the real-life challenges of navigating adolescence in an eve
 r-changing world.\n\nSteven has long championed authentic queer storytelli
 ng — first through song\, now through fiction. Billboard Magazine once p
 raised him as one of the ‘out-queer tunesmiths [...] making waves along 
 the coffeehouse circuit.’ His debut album Photobook was nominated for De
 but Album of the Year by the Gay/Lesbian American Music Awards (GLAMA). Hi
 s latest release\, All You Need\, was a finalist for four Wammie Awards an
 d earned a silver from the Mid-Atlantic Song Contest for “Twenty-Nine.
 ”\n\nWhen he’s not writing\, Steven can be found sipping a cup of Dark
  Rose tea and plotting new adventures for his book club\, Tea &amp\; Peril
 . Now in its tenth year\, the club has hosted a growing number of New York
  Times bestselling authors including Travis Baldree\, Sarah Beth Durst\, E
 mily X.R. Pan\, Eleanor Brown\, and William Kent Krueger.
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CATEGORIES:Arts and Culture,Pride,Youth
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