Join us at The Hub to celebrate the release of The Scarlet Ball by Nghi Vo — a tale of ballrooms and bloodshed set in New York City. Nghi will be joined in conversation by Cindy Pham, author of The Secret Life of Briar Rose and creator of the popular YouTube channel Read With Cindy. The evening will include a conversation, audience Q&A, book signing, and photos.

About the Author:

Nghi Vo is the bestselling author of the novels Siren Queen, The Chosen and the Beautiful, and The City in Glass, as well as the acclaimed novellas of the Singing Hills Cycle, which began with The Empress of Salt and Fortune. Her work has been nominated for the Nebula, Locus, and Lambda Literary Awards and the LA Times and Ursula K. Le Guin Prizes, and has won the Crawford, Ignyte, and Hugo Awards. Born in Illinois, she now lives on the shores of Lake Michigan. She believes in the ritual of lipstick, the power of stories, and the right to change your mind.

In Conversation With:

Cindy Pham is a queer Vietnamese-American author of The Secret World of Briar Rose, an instant #1 New York Times, USA Today, and Indie Bestseller. Based in New York City, she works as a full-time designer while moonlighting as a fiction writer and content creator. Her YouTube channel, Read With Cindy, has amassed over half a million subscribers and focuses on books, movie reactions, and candid commentary. You can follow her across socials at @readwithcindy and readwithcindy.com.