Meet Kate Myers, author of Salty, and Find Waldo all this month!
- Tim Pinel
- Jun 30
- 3 min read
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Join us Monday, August 11 for the next event in our Quotes & Liner Notes series! We are thrilled to partner with The Collective Encore to bring you a live conversation with Kate Myers, celebrating her new novel, Salty.
If you loved Excavations, you won’t want to miss this stop on Myers' summer book tour. Salty is equal parts breezy and biting making it a perfect beach read, and we'll be diving into the story, the setting, and the secrets behind the scenes with the author herself.
Tickets include light bites, a themed non-alcoholic drink, and 10% off your book purchase. Encore’s full cocktail bar and menu will also be available.
Get ready for a night of sun-soaked wit, great conversation, and a little literary escape, and secure your tickets below.
Tim is very excited that it's July, and that means that the hunt is on to find Waldo in 21 local stores throughout Columbia!
Visit the store to pick up your passport (and to get your first stamp at Queen Takes Book, with an added bonus if you can find the magnifying glass in-store).
For more information, visit QueenTakesBook.com/Waldo, and we'll see you on the search!
New Releases - July 1, 2025
New in Fiction
Kathy Wang’s The Satisfaction Café is a quiet, absorbing novel that takes readers on a lifelong journey alongside Joan Liang, a woman whose sharp mind, quiet strength, and unrelenting curiosity help her navigate a world that often underestimates her.
Beginning in the 1970s, when Joan leaves Taiwan to study in California, we watch her evolve through marriages, motherhood, and social circles that aren’t always welcoming. But we are participants in Joan’s inner world - her thoughtful observations, dry humor, and persistent sense of possibility - through it all.
As she moves from outsider to unlikely matriarch, Joan begins to imagine a space where people can feel seen and heard, a place she once dreamed of as a child: the Satisfaction Café. What starts as a daydream becomes a lifeline, not just for Joan, but for the many others who cross her path.
Warm, quietly funny, and rich with detail, this novel is about building a meaningful life, and a community, from the inside out.
If you’ve ever half-joked that your ex might have been the spawn of Satan… Craig DiLouie took that idea, cranked the amp to 11, and made it the plot of a bizarre, genre-blending rock-horror novel.
Told entirely in oral history format (think Daisy Jones meets The Omen) this is the story of Lily Lawlor, a sheltered Catholic college dropout who joins a band led by a seductive, mysterious guitarist named Drake. The band, The Shivers, quickly finds its sound, and then finds something darker. Concerts spiral into chaos. Fights break out. People blackout. Drake's guitar solos leave audiences changed...
As the band rises through the local scene toward an “Armageddon” battle-of-the-bands finale, the question isn't whether Drake is dangerous. It's whether he’s literally the Antichrist, and if he is, what that means for Lily, for the band, and for everyone who listens.
Weird, wild, and impossible to look away from, My Ex, the Antichrist is a campy slow-burn that doesn’t shy away from asking big questions about belief, fame, power, and the way music moves us. Perfect for readers who love their horror more atmospheric than gory.
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