Join three Austin indie authors as they read selections from their works and discuss how they made the leap to indie publishing. This month’s guests are James Lopez, Alex Bexar, and Catherine De Young (left to right, below). James will be reading from Sound and Fury / Shakespeare Goes Punk, a collection of alt-punk short stories based on Shakespeare’s works. Alex will be reading from her young adult science fiction title, Now You’re Dead. And Catherine will be sharing her two memoirs, Life In The Trenches: A Retrospective and Life In The Trenches: My Stories.

This event is organized by Write It Already, a local meet-up that encourages people to write—and finish what they start. There will be light refreshments and books by the authors for sale at the event.

H. James Lopez was born on a Navy ship in the Caribbean Sea outside of Barranquilla. He is a construct of too much sun, too much alcohol, and not nearly enough time on land. Since 2009 he has been writing fiction in all the forms which come to mind. Current complete works include two books on Military/Urban fiction including The Blue Star Workaround and The Vegas Slingshot. Also a High Fantasy novel in review and a book about steam warfare in Texas at the time of the Republic.

Alex Bexar, not your typical little girl growing up in the rural South. While most little girls her age were playing with their dolls and wearing frilly dresses, Alex spent her time listening to her uncles and older cousins tell stories about their experiences in the military, reading books about space travel, and watching scary movies. When school was out for the summer, Alex, her friends, and cousins would go out into the woods to plan secret missions and rescue kidnapped spies. Since childhood, Alex has been writing and telling stories to entertain friends and family. Today, Alex Bexar lives in Central Texas and has retired from a career in contract management.

While studying at Parsons School of Design-Los Angeles, Catherine DeYoung created socio-anthropological vignettes of life in the city through her photography. The next ten years she worked in various photographic roles in Hollywood, government/aerospace, and also litigation graphics. After joining the crime lab of a major metropolitan police department, Catherine spent the next six years investigating over 6,000 crime scenes. Now, living back in Texas, she writes about her life in crime. Rumor has it that she inspired a certain character on a certain television show after Hollywood writers came to visit the crime lab.