Join us for another installment of Novel Night, a monthly celebration of all things prose! Here’s how it works: published authors will read from their books and there’ll be an audience Q & A. And we’ll also have “Book Talk,” in which an intrepid Malvern staff member will introduce you to one of our favorite prose titles. Also worth noting: we’re offering 20% OFF ALL FICTION TITLES during Novel Night (from 6pm till closing).

This month’s Novel Night authors are M. Ward Leon and J. Darris Mitchell.

M. Ward Leon’s new book, Blood of the Beast, is an action thriller featuring an international French eco-terrorist group waging a world war against poachers and big game hunters. And J. Darris Mitchell’s Fireflies and Cosmos: Interstellar Spring Book 1 is a humorous space opera about love in all of its forms.

M. Ward Leon is a former advertising creative director who started his career at Doyle Dane Bernbach, New York, during the Madmen era. While at DDB his writing on the Volkswagen Rabbit campaign won him inclusion into the Smithsonian Institution Advertising Archives. Recently his writing has earned him two National Emmy Awards for Public Service advertising. He recently became a published author, with his novel; The Blood of the Beast, published with Beacon Publishing Group. He is a graduate of California State University Los Angeles and an alumnus of Art Center College of Design.

J. Darris Mitchell is a native of Austin, TX who is obsessed with bringing biodiversity back to the city. He lives with his darling wife, his amazing son, a flock of chickens, a lazy cat, and a backyard brimming with wildflowers and insects.