It’s kickoff time! No, we aren’t talking about Super Bowl; we are talking about Super Book V, and you are invited!

Join our team of 20 renowned authors, including half-time speakers, who will give book enthusiasts and reading fans the experience of a lifetime, complete with national anthem, special half-time presentation, four quarters of excitement, and crowd-pleasing food, scheduled to take place on Sunday, February 18, 2024 at:

Admiral Baker Golf Course Clubhouse, 2400 Admiral Baker Rd #3604, San Diego, CA 92124

And of course, no Adventure by the Book would be complete without lots of excitement and fun! Past Adventure included:

• Daylong Adventure featuring up to 20 New York Times and bestselling authors
• Custom Super Book tote bag
• Continental breakfast
• Crowd-pleasing gourmet lunch
• Collectible event program
• Seating at lunch tables with an author
• VIP option available to seat with your favorite author (limited availability)
• Multiple book signing autographing opportunities with all authors
• Photo ops with authors
• Meet and greet opportunities with the authors
• Books provided for sale and signing
• National anthem performance
• Four quarters of author activities
• Half-time presentation
• Discounted block of hotel rooms
• Fun prizes and giveaways
• …and much more

Registration

While we are putting the finishing touches on the second half of our amazing SuperBook V lineup, we wanted to offer early bird discounted pricing to the first 50 people who register (see below)!

Author Preview

Jeffrey Blount is the award-winning author of 3 novels and an Emmy award-winning television director. In his latest novel, Mr. Jimmy From Around the Way, after a highly publicized fall from grace, James Henry Ferguson attempts to flee from the chaos in his life. He ends up in a community he had never heard of before, a place of abject poverty, the neighborhood is commonly referred to as “Around the Way.” A self-identified failure is forced to uncover the wisdom of his past in order to recognize that money can’t solve every problem. Full of never-ending twists and turns, no one can prepare themselves for the surprises in store.

Piper G. Huguley is a literature professor at Clark-Atlanta University and blogs about the history behind her novels at http://piperhuguley.com. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia with her husband and son. Her biographical historical fiction, By Her Own Design: a novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register (William Morrow Publishing) tells the inspiring story of the Black fashion designer of Jackie Kennedy’s wedding dress. By Her Own Design was a Booklist top 100 Editor’s Choice selection for 2022 and was named one of the top 100 books of 2022 in Canada by the Globe and Mail newspaper.

Martha Hall Kelly’s debut novel Lilac Girls became a New York Times bestseller the week it was published in 2016 and then went on to sell over two million copies and publish in 50 countries. The novel is based on the true story of 72 Polish women who were imprisoned and experimented on at Ravensbruck Concentration Camp and how Caroline Ferriday, an American philanthropist brought them to the U.S. for rehabilitation and the trip of a lifetime. Her latest novel, The Golden Doves, follows two former female spies, bound together by their past, who risk everything to hunt down an infamous Nazi doctor in the aftermath of World War II—an extraordinary novel inspired by true events.

Mary Elizabeth Kelly is an actor, writer, comedian and social media creator, and daughter of Martha Hall Kelly. Following studying Theatre at Northwestern University, Mary continued her education and became an alum of the UCBNY, UCBLA and Second City improv and sketch writing programs. With her impression videos going viral during the pandemic, she has now garnered a nearly 2 million-person following across all social media platforms. This past year, Mary performed her one-woman show at a smattering of comedy clubs across the country, was a “New Face” at the Montreal Just For Laughs Festival and starred in a pilot for Hulu. She can currently be seen in a handful of national commercials. For more info, visit Mary @mare_kell on all social media platforms!

Tosca Lee is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Line Between, The Progeny, Firstborn, Iscariot, The Legend of Sheba, Demon: A Memoir, Havah: The Story of Eve, and the Books of Mortals series with New York Times bestseller Ted Dekker. She is the recipient of two International Book Awards, Killer Nashville’s Silver Falchion, ECPA Book of the Year in Fiction, and the Nebraska Book Award. Her work has finaled for the High Plains Book Award, the Library of Virginia Reader’s Choice Award, two Christy Awards, and a second ECPA Book of the Year. Inspired by true stories, her new book, The Long March Home, is a gripping coming-of-age tale of friendship, sacrifice, and the power of unrelenting hope.

Susan Meissner is a USA Today bestselling author of historical fiction with more than three-quarters of a million books in readers’ hands and translations in eighteen languages. She is an author, speaker and writing workshop leader with a background in community journalism.  Her novels include The Nature of Fragile Things, which earned a starred review in Publishers Weekly; The Last Year of the War, named to Real Simple magazine’s list of best books for 2019; As Bright as Heaven, which earned a starred review in Library Journal; Secrets of Charmed Life, a Goodreads finalist for Best Historical Fiction 2015; and A Fall of Marigolds, named to Booklist’s Top Ten Women’s Fiction titles for 2014. Her new book, Only the Beautiful, is a heartrending story about a young mother’s fight to keep her daughter, and the winds of fortune that tear them apart.

Robin Oliveira grew up just outside Albany, New York in the town of Loudonville. She holds a B.A. in Russian from the University of Montana, and studied at the Pushkin Language Institute in Moscow, Russia. She worked for many years as a Registered Nurse, specializing in Critical Care and Bone Marrow Transplant. In 2006 she received an M.F.A. in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her new novel, A Wild and Heavenly Place, is an ode to the Pacific Northwest, to those courageous and resilient enough to chase the American Dream, and to a love so powerful it endures beyond distance, beyond hope.

Renée Rosen is a USA Today bestselling author. Her novels include The Social Graces, Park Avenue Summer, Windy City Blues, White Collar Girl, What the Lady Wants and Dollface as well as the young adult novel, Every Crooked Pot. She is currently working on a new novel about the Barbie doll creator, Ruth Handler, coming from Penguin Random House/Berkley in 2025. In Renée’s dazzling new novel, Fifth Avenue Glamor Girl, it’s 1938, and a young woman selling face cream out of a New York City beauty parlor is determined to prove she can have it all. Her name is Estée Lauder, and she’s about to take the world by storm.

Deborah Goodrich Royce began her career as an actress, starring as Silver Kane, sister of the legendary Erica Kane (played by Susan Lucci) on the ABC soap, All My Children. She went on to star in feature films such as April Fool’s Day and Just One of the Guys, TV movies such as Return to Peyton Place and The Deliberate Stranger, and series such as Beverly Hills 90210 and 21 Jump Street. In her novel, Reef Road, a young woman’s life seems perfect until her family goes missing. A writer lives alone with her dog and collects arcane murder statistics. What each of them stands to lose as they sneak around the do-not-enter tape blocking Reef Road beach is exposed by the steady tightening of the cincture encircling them. In a nod to the true crime that inspired it, Deborah Goodrich Royce’s Reef Road probes unhealed generational scars in a wrenching and original work of fiction. It is both stunning and sexy and, like a bystander surprised by a curtain left open, you won’t be able to look away.

Renee Ryan is a multi-published, award-winning author who sold her first book in 2001 by winning the inaugural Dorchester/Romantic Times New Historical Voice Contest. She published her second book with Harlequin in February 2009 and has since sold over thirty books to several publishers. Her new novel, The Paris Housekeeper, is a powerful and moving story of bravery and resilience in World War II Paris, and about one woman who must face impossible choices to survive.

Beatriz Williams is the New York Times, USA Today, and internationally bestselling author of Our Woman in Moscow, The Summer Wives, Her Last Flight, The Golden Hour, The Secret Life of Violet Grant, A Hundred Summers, and several other works of historical fiction, including three novels in collaboration with fellow bestselling authors Karen White and Lauren Willig. Beatriz’s books have won numerous awards, have been translated into more than a dozen languages, and appear regularly in bestseller lists around the world. Her book, The Beach at Summerly, is a ravishing summer read that transports readers to a midcentury New England rich with secrets and Cold War intrigue.

Lauren Willig is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of more than twenty works of historical fiction, including Band of Sisters, The Summer Country, The English Wife, the RITA Award-winning Pink Carnation series, and four novels co-written with Beatriz Williams and Karen White. Her books have been translated into over twenty languages, picked for Book of the Month Club, awarded the RITA, Booksellers Best, and Golden Leaf awards, and chosen for the American Library Association’s annual list of the best genre fiction. Two Wars and a Wedding is a dramatic coming-of-age story with a dual timeline and a single heroine—a bold and adventuring young woman who finds herself caught up in two very different wars on both sides of the Atlantic.

Karen White is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of 34 books, with almost two million books in print in fifteen different languages, including the Tradd Street series, The Last Night in London, Dreams of Falling, The Night the Lights Went Out, Flight Patterns, The Sound of Glass, and A Long Time Gone. She is the coauthor of The Lost Summers of Newport, All the Ways We Said Goodbye, The Glass Ocean and The Forgotten Room with New York Times bestselling authors Beatriz Williams and Lauren Willig. A woman is haunted—both literally and figuratively—by ghosts of the past in her second novel of the Royal Street series, The House on Prytania.

Kitty Zeldis is the pen name of a Brooklyn based author of nine novels, numerous essays, articles and works of short fiction as well as forty books for children. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, NY. Moving from the bustling streets of Brooklyn and Manhattan to late 19th century Russia and the lively quarters of New Orleans, her new novel, The Dressmakers of Prospect Heights, is a story of female friendship, the families we are born with and the families we make, and how some bonds can be tested but never broken.

With More to Come!

Our team can’t wait to see you there!