A surprise exciting post coming from us today! It might be the middle of Pride Month but we’re about to bring you some spookiness! A modern, sapphic take on the legend of the Horseman of Sleepy Hollow. What could be more perfect than that? We promise you, once you read the excerpt, you will be absolutely hooked! This year the fall could not come sooner.
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From Shannon Watters, the co-creator of the bestselling worldwide phenomenon Lumberjanes, and co-writer debut author Branden Boyer-White, rising star artist Berenice Nelle (Wanderlicht), and colorists Kaitlyn Musto (Specter Inspectors), Kieran Quigley (An Ember in the Ashes), and Gonçalo Lopes, comes a supernatural queer romance and adventure set in the infamous town of Sleepy Hollow, available in September 2022.
Isabel “Izzy” Crane and her family have just relocated to Sleepy Hollow, the town made famous by—and obsessed with—Washington Irving’s legend of the Headless Horseman. But city slicker-skeptic Izzy has no time for superstition as she navigates life at a new address, a new school, and, with any luck, with new friends. Ghost stories aren’t real, after all….
Then Izzy is pulled into the orbit of the town’s teen royalty, Vicky Van Tassel (yes, that Van Tassel) and loveable varsity-level prankster Croc Byun. Vicky’s weariness with her family connection to the legend turns to terror when the trio begins to be haunted by the Horseman himself, uncovering a curse set on destroying the Van Tassel line. Now, they have only until Halloween night to break it—meaning it’s a totally inconvenient time for Izzy to develop a massive crush on the enigmatic Vicky.
Can Izzy’s practical nature help her face the unknown—or only trip her up? As the calendar runs down to the 31st, Izzy will have to use all of her wits and work with her new friends to save Vicky and uncover the mystery of the legendary Horseman of Sleepy Hollow—before it’s too late.
Hollow
Shannon Watters, Branden Boyer-White, Berenice Nelle, Kaitlyn Musto, Kieran Quigley & Gonçalo Lopes
Rep: Latina lesbian mc, sapphic li
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Shannon Watters is the co-creator and co-writer of the award-winning hit comic book series LUMBERJANES. Her Graphic novel HOLLOW is out in fall 2022. She is also a Former senior editor and The founder/head of BOOM! Box line at BOOM! Studios, the imprint behind critically acclaimed comics and graphic novels like GIANT DAYS, THE BACKSTAGERS, LUMBERJANES, FENCE, GOLDIE VANCE, HEAVY VINYL, THE AVANT-GUARDS, and many, many others. She loves vintage nonsense, cooking elaborate meals, and funny words. She lives with her partner in Los Angeles.
Branden’s debut YA graphic novel will be published in Fall 2022. Her short fiction has appeared in places like Alaska Quarterly Review, Hunger Mountain, Third Coast, and Anthropoid, and been honored with a grant from the Money For Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, the A Room of her Own Foundation’s Orlando Prize, and as a runner-up for the inaugural Miami Book Fair/de Groot Prize. A desert rat by fate, Branden was born and raised in Palm Springs and the Joshua Tree area, and spent three years in Tempe getting her MFA at Arizona State University. She and her partner currently live in Los Angeles in an apartment with their many antiques.
