Presented by Charm City Books
Join us as we chat with fantasy authors about why readers are falling in love with cozy fantasy. Authors discuss relaxing progression, comforting worlds, stories where emotional payoff matters as much as combat, and how character dynamics that slowly turn into found family arcs get the reader emotionally invested.
Moderated by Daven Ralston (@Charmcitybooks)
Jedediah Berry is the critically acclaimed author of The Naming Song, The Manual of Detection, and The Family Arcana, and co-author of The Valley of Flowers, an award-winning tabletop adventure game setting. Together with his partner, writer Emily Houk, he runs Ninepin Press, an independent publisher of fiction, poetry, and games in unusual shapes. He lives in Western Massachusetts.
Autumn K England grew up on the Space Coast of Florida watching shuttle launches from the backyard. These days, they live on a micro-farm in rural Virginia packed with video and board games, plants, D&D books, and their kindergartener’s giant personality. They’re probably covered in dirt right now. Find Autumn K. England online: mkengland.com
Instagram: @mk_england
Daven Ralston is the founder of Charm City Books. As a small business owner and mom, she is tired. Her life consists of doing mom things, listening to books while driving around Baltimore, reading (and falling asleep) at bedtime, corralling her three chickens and three dogs, and community building through literature and the arts. She is proud that CCB is home to a great and diverse selection of books, locally made crafts, community-driven events, and overall magic. It is the people who work here and visit here that make it so!
