The Sc Book Festival is a yearly literary festival held in Columbia, SC. There will be book signings, writing workshops, special ticketed events, and even a Children's Pavilion. See www.scbookfestival.org for a list of events and featured authors. Fiction Addiction, Books on Broad, and Hub City Bookshop are sponsors this year and will be handling the main book sales area at the show. If you can't make the festival, let us know and we can get books signed for you. *Note: Public admission is free, though some events are ticketed.

New York Times bestselling comic and graphic novel author Robert Venditti will be signing copies of his debut middle-grade novel, Miles Taylor and the Golden Cape: Attack of the Alien Horde (Simon & Schuster, hardcover, $16.99, on sale 6/16/15), at Fiction Addiction. This is the first of a series about twelve-year-old Miles who unexpectedly inherits a golden cape that gives him amazing superpowers. This event is free and open to the public, but RSVPs to info@fiction-addiction.com are requested.

Southeast Summer Book Bash YA Panel Talk & Signing: Monday, June 22nd, 3pm @ Fiction Addiction, $10*

Meet these six YA authors for a Q&A session followed by a book signing at Fiction Addiction: Lynne Matson (author of Nil and its sequel, Nil Unlocked), Lindsay Cummings (author of The Murder Complex and its sequel, The Death Code, as well as the Balance Keepers middle-grade series), Anne Blankman (author of Prisoner of Night and Fog and its sequel, Conspiracy of Blood and Smoke), Paula Stokes (author of Liars, Inc. and The Art of Lainey), Robin Constantine (author of The Secrets of Attraction and The Promise of Amazing), and Tonya Kuper (author of Anomaly). *Note: Tickets are $10 each. Each ticket can be redeemed toward a purchase of the featured authors' books prior to or at the event, and includes one admission pass to the event.

Fiction Addiction's Book Scouts meet monthly.

For our next meeting, we will be reading Murder Is Bad Manners by Robin Stevens (Simon & Schuster, hardcover, $16.99).

The Book Scouts program is designed for children ages 8 to 12.