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 Christy Esmahan, Aaron S. Gallagher, and Carolyn Cohagan (left to right, below). Christy will be reading from Sinco, a love story set in Spain. Aaron will be reading from Magician, Martyr, and Bleecker, his urban fantasy and detective novels. And Carolyn will be introducing us to Time Zero, a Young Adult Dystopian novel.

Christy Esmahan grew up in Cincinnati. She attended Miami University, then received a doctorate from the Universidad de Leon in Spain. She lived in the Basque Country and worked at an American International School for four years. Her first three novels are based on her experiences there. Bueno, her first novel, was a semi-finalist for the 2014 Elixir Press Fiction Award and Sinco, her second novel, is a finalist for this year’s International Latino Book Awards.

Aaron S. Gallagher was born in Syracuse, New York. He started writing when he was five years old. He has written eleven novels and six books of poetry, and has been published in Analog Science Fiction & Fact and Ares Magazine. He writes mystery, crime, urban fantasy, straight fiction, and thrillers.

Carolyn Cohagan began her writing career on the stage. She has performed stand-up and one-woman shows at festivals around the world from Adelaide to Edinburgh. Her first novel, The Lost Children, was published by Simon & Schuster in 2010, became part of the Scholastic Book Club in 2011, and was nominated for a Massachusetts Children’s Book Award in 2014. Carolyn recently moved back to her hometown of Austin, where she founded Girls With Pens, a creative writing organization dedicated to fostering the individual voices and offbeat imaginations of girls ages 8-17.

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.