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Alex Segura – Bestselling and Award-Winning Author

May 2, 2023 | Featured Author

Debbie Harpham

from author’s website

ABOUT ALEX SEGURA:

Alex Segura is the bestselling and award-winning author of Secret Identity, which The New York Times called “wittily original” and named an Editor’s Choice. NPR described the novel as “masterful,” and it received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and Booklist. Secret Identity was also listed as one of the Best Mysteries of the Year by NPR, Kirkus, Booklist, the South Florida Sun Sentinel and more, and was nominated for the Lefty and Barry Awards for Best Novel, and won the LA Times Book Prize in the Mystery/Thriller category. His next novel, the YA Spider-Verse adventure Araña/Spider-Man 2099: Dark Tomorrow is out now from Disney Books/Marvel Press.

ABOUT ARANA/SPIDER-MAN 2099: DARK TOMMORROW

ALEX SEGURA BRINGS ANYA CORAZON, AKA ARAÑA—A GROUNDBREAKING LATINX SUPER HERO—TO MARVEL PRESS YOUNG ADULT FICTION IN THIS ACTION-PACKED STORY ABOUT UNLIKELY FRIENDSHIP, PERSEVERANCE, AND WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A HERO.

When Anya comes into her spider powers, it’s hardly smooth sailing—or smooth web-slinging, as it were. Anya’s balancing the demands of school, “normal” teenager problems, her secret super hero identity, and the still-fresh loss of her mentor.

Things get even more complicated when an ancient artifact, El Obelisco, goes missing. Knowing how dangerous a powerful artifact can become in the wrong hands, Anya suits up and tracks it to a warehouse in East New York. There’s just one wrinkle: This was totally a trap and she totally fell right into it.

Anya finds herself launched decades into the future, far away from her home and everything she knows. But just when it seems like all is lost, Anya finds an ally in 2099’s retired Spider-Man, Miguel O’Hara—a reluctant mentor with unconventional methods.

Anya has to look deep within herself to stave off a looming immortal threat and save the universe.

AUTHOR VISITS:

Alex Segura is available for book club visits and video chats via NovelNetwork.