About this item
Drummer Phoebe Byrd prides herself on being one of the guys, and she's ready to prove it by kicking all their butts in the snare solo competition at the Indoor Percussion Association Convention. Writer Vanessa Montoya-O'Callaghan has been looking forward to the WTFcon for months. Not just because of the panels and fanfiction readings but because WTFcon is where she'll finally meet Soleil, her internet girlfriend, for the first time. Taxidermy assistant Callie Buchannan might be good at scooping brains out of deer skulls, but that doesn't mean it's her passion. Since her parents' divorce, her taxidermist father only cares about his work, and assisting him at the World Taxidermy and Fish-Carving Championships is the only way Callie knows to connect with him. When a crazy mix-up in the hotel lobby brings the three girls together, they form an unlikely friendship against a chaotic background of cosplay, competition, and carcasses!
About the Author
Here's the important stuff:
I grew up in Evanston, IL, then went to Harvard and got a degree in photography. Then I spent the next three years as a freelance lighting designer for theater, opera, and dance productions throughout the Northeast. Eventually, I got tired of hanging out on ladders and wrestling with faulty electrical equipment for eighty hours a week, so I spent the next four years working as a photographer for the Metropolitan Opera. Now I live in Brooklyn with my two kitties and write full-time. I'm represented by Holly Root at Waxman Leavell.
And here's some less important stuff:
If I had to pick a superpower, I'd choose teleportation. I once got to hold a platypus, and it was the best day of my life. If I could only eat foods beginning with one letter for the rest of my life, I would choose the letter P. I spent most of preschool pretending to be Curious George. I keep detailed spreadsheets to track every book I buy and read. Someone once dumped a bucket of water onto my head from her fire escape because I was talking too loudly outside her apartment. I can do the complete "Thriller" dance, which I hope will help me blend in during the inevitable zombie apocalypse.
Visit me online at www.alisoncherrybooks.com and follow me on Twitter and Instagram @alison_cherry.
