Book Launch: Winston Chu vs. the Wingmeisters – Books Inc. Palo Alto
2024-02-06 18:00 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Books Inc. Palo Alto, 855 El Camino Real #74 @ Town & Country Village, Palo Alto, CA, 94301, United States
Please join us at Books Inc. Palo Alto for the launch of Rick Riordan Presents Winston Chu vs. The Wingmeisters, the follow up to Stacey’s magical and action-packed middle grade novel Winston Chu vs. the Whimsies.
Stacey will be in conversation with friend and fellow Rick Riordan Presents author Lori M. Lee.
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Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents best-selling YA author Stacey Lee’s final book in her debut middle grade duology: a whimsical, mile-a-minute adventure inspired by Chinese mythology.
Twelve-year-old Winston Chu has already rescued his sister, saved the moon’s qi, and kicked Mr. Pang’s sorry magpie-turned-human butt to the curb—but now he’s about to face an even bigger problem: Mr. Pang’s older magpie-turned-human brother, Mr. Gu.
Sure, Mr. Gu might be the current front-runner to be San Francisco’s next mayor, but, as Winston knows all too well, appearances can be deceiving—and Mr. Gu, despite his cheerful laugh and brightly-colored shirts, is definitely hiding something.
Because all of a sudden, there’s an eerily punctual fog that seems to follow him on his trips to an island in the bay. And grown-ups are turning up all the across the city with no memory of who they are, but with plenty of enthusiasm for their favorite mayoral candidate. And then there’s the flocks of exotic birds that have begun amassing in every corner of the city. For Winston and his friends, there’s no denying something. . . fowl. . . is afoot.
And the only one who might have the answers they need to save the city? Their old nemesis, Mr. Pang. . .
Winston’s magical adventures come to a thrilling end in this whimsical, rollicking ride filled with invisible windbreakers, mischievous mustaches, and badminton rackets of destiny.

Stacey Lee is the New York Times and Indie bestselling author of historical and contemporary young adult fiction, including The Downstairs Girl, a Reese’s Book Club Late Summer 2021 YA pick. A native of southern California and fourth-generation Chinese American, she is a co-founder of the We Need Diverse Books movement and writes stories for all kids. Find her online at www.staceyhlee.com and follow her on Instagram and Twitter @staceyleeauthor.
Lori M. Lee is the author of Gates of Thread Stone, The Infinite, and the forthcoming Pahua and the Soul Stealer (Rick Riordan Presents). She’s also a contributor in the anthologies A Thousand Beginnings and Endings (Greenwillow/Harper) and Color Outside the Lines (Soho Teen). She lives in Wisconsin with her husband, kids, and an excitable shih tzu.

Texas Library Association Annual Conference
2024-04-16 - 2024-04-18 | Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, 900 E Market St, San Antonio, TX, 78205, United States
Come meet me at the Texas Library Association (TLA) Annual Conference, the largest conference for library professionals in Texas. It is scheduled to take place from April 16-19, 2024 in San Antonio.
Stacey is planning on being at the following events, please join her:
Wednesday, April 17
3:00 – 4:00 PM: Middle Grade Fiction for Budding Active Citizens
5:30 PM: Penguin Random House Cocktail Party
7:30 PM: Penguin Random House Family Dinner
Thursday, April 18
12:00 – 1:00 PM: Penguin Young Readers Autographing
1:30 – 2:30 PM: Connecting to the Past Through Literature Panel

Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
2024-04-20 - 2024-04-21 | University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA, 90007, United States
Find your spark at the 2024 L.A. Times Festival of Books, April 20-21 on the USC campus. It’s the country’s largest literary festival and admission is FREE.
Please come meet with me at the festival. (Event schedule coming soon)

Book Launch: Kill Her Twice – Linden Tree Books, Los Altos
2024-04-23 18:00 - 19:00 | Linden Tree Books, 265 State Street, Los Altos, CA, 94022, United States
Please join us at Linden Tree Books Los Altos for the launch of Kill Her Twice, Stacey’s upcoming historical fiction – a YA murder mystery noir set in 1930s Los Angeles’s Chinatown. Stacey will be in conversation with friend and New Yorks Times best-selling author Stephanie Garber.
Special Pre-order Gift when you pre-order the book with Linden Tree Books before April 23, 2024.
Click here for details https://www.lindentreebooks.com/kill-her-twice.html
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LOS ANGELES, 1932: Lulu Wong, star of the silver screen and the pride of Chinatown, has a face known to practically everyone, especially the Chow sisters—May, Gemma, and Peony—Lulu’s former classmates and neighbors. So the girls instantly know it’s Lulu when they discover a body one morning in an out-of-the-way stable, far from the Beverly Hills home where she lived after her fame skyrocketed.
The sisters suspect Lulu’s death is the result of foul play, but the police don’t seem motivated to investigate. Even worse, there are signs that point to a cover-up, and powerful forces in the city want to frame the killing as evidence that Chinatown is a den of iniquity and crime, even more reason it should be demolished to make room for the construction of a new railway depot, Union Station.
Worried that neither the police nor the papers will treat Lulu fairly—no matter her fame and wealth—the sisters set out to solve their friend’s murder themselves, and maybe save their neighborhood in the bargain. But with Lulu’s killer still on the loose, the girls’ investigation just might put them square in the crosshairs of a cold-blooded murderer.

New York Public Library - Teen Banned Book Club
2024-04-25 12:00 - 13:00 | Online
Join the New York Public Library’s Teen Banned Book Club for this online discussion with Stacey.
(More details to come)

Baker & Taylor's Title Talk - Kill Her Twice
2024-04-29 - 2024-04-30 | CA
More details to come.

Yallwest 2024 Book Festival
2024-05-04 10:00 - 18:00 | Santa Monica High School, 601 Pico Blvd, Santa Monica, CA, United States
WHO: Over 60 authors and presenters including New York Times Bestsellers along with local and acclaimed young adult and middle grade writers, plus notable TV, film, video game, and comic creators.
WHAT: A day of panels, book signings, food trucks, bad jokes, rock ‘n’ roll, killer photo ops & general geeky shenanigans. The festival is free and open to the public with a limited number of ticketed keynote events.
STACEY’S EVENTS:

Sat May 4th @ 11 AM PDT – Historical Frictions & Fictional Histories. Location: Cafeteria
Sat May 4th @ 1 PM PDT – Signing
Sat May 4th @ 3 PM PDT – YALLTruth or Dare. Location: Disco Quad

New York Library Association 2024 SSL Conference
2024-05-15 - 2024-05-18 | Lake Placid Conference Center, 2608 Main Street, Lake Placid, NY, 12946, United States
New York Library Association (NYLA) / SSL provides leadership opportunities and professional development focusing on equity, diversity, and inclusion while engaging and collaborating with school librarians and educational partners, promoting excellence and advocacy. The 2024 SSL conference focuses on stories and how they link the past, present and future. Stacey is one of the Keynote speakers for this conference.
This year’s conference will be held at the Lake Placid Conference Center in New York from May 16th to 18th. Keynote speakers include Ruta Sepetys, Stacey Lee and Kate Messner, and Charles Smith Jr.

Orange County Public Library - Author Event
2024-05-28 17:00 - 18:30 | Cypress Library, 5331 Orange Avenue, Cypress, CA, 90630, United States
OC Public Libraries Presents
In celebration of ASIAN AMERICAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER HERITAGE MONTH
Stacey will talk about her books and highlight her recently launched book – KILL HER TWICE – a YA Murder Mysery Noir set in 1930s Los Angeles’s chinatown. Come celebrate Asian American Pacific Islander month and discuss the importance of diverse voices in fiction.

Stacey is the New York Times and Indie bestselling author of historical and contemporary young adult fiction, including The Downstairs Girl, a Reese’s Book Club pick. She is a founding member of the We Need Diverse Books movement.
Complimentary books available, while supplies last. No registration required. Early arrival suggested.

Ask the Author Book Club
2025-01-28 16:30 - 17:45 | Online
Kill Her Twice – A YA murder mystery noir set in 1930s Los Angeles’s Chinatown, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Downstairs Girl. We’ll be discussing setting, historical worldbuilding, plotting a mystery, writing dual point-of-view stories, and more!
Registrants will be able to submit questions for the author the week before the live event. At the event, KidLit Craft Podcast co-hosts Anne-Marie and Erin will interview the author of our chosen book, and we’ll plan time for a live Q&A near the end of the event. Events will be recorded and available to registrants for 30 days after the event.
Registration is required before the event. Register at KidLit Craft

Sara Pennypacker In Conversation with Stacey Lee
2026-02-03 18:00 - 19:30 | Copperfield Books – Petaluma, 140 Kentucky St, Petaluma, CA, 94952, United States
Celebrate the release of The Lions’ Run in Petaluma with New York Times bestselling author Sara Pennypacker who delivers an historical novel about an orphan during WWII who discovers unexpected courage within himself when he becomes involved with the Resistance.
Sara will be joined in conversation by Stacey Lee, New York Times and Indie bestselling author of historical and contemporary young adult and middle grade fiction, and founder of the We Need Diverse Books movement.
See event website for more details.

North Texas Teen Book Festival (NTTBF)
2026-03-07 | Irving Convention Center, 500 W. Las Colinas Blvd, Irving, TX, 76039, United States
NTTBF is a free, one-day book festival created to celebrate teen literature, from both Middle Grade and YA authors. It is hosted at the Irving Convention Center, where roughly 75 authors will come together for a full day of conversation, book signings, and jubilation. Authors sign books, meet their readers, and discuss their books in over 40 small breakout panels at the state-of-the-art Irving Convention Center. Books will be sold for each author at the event.
Stacey will be on a panel and signing books on Saturday March 7th – come say Hi!

Tucson Festival of Books
2026-03-14 - 2026-03-15 | University of Arizona, 1303 E University Blvd, Tucson, AZ, 85719, United States
The Tucson Festival of Books is a premier, free-to-attend, family-friendly celebration of literature held at the University of Arizona. A community-wide celebration of literature, festival activities include both large and small author panels and workshops on various literary and book-centered topics. Additionally, the festival features hundreds of local and national exhibitors with literacy-focused booths and activities. Attendees can meet their favorite authors, purchase books and book-themed merch, learn about local nonprofits, interact with indie authors, publishers, and much more.

Book Launch: Heiress of Nowhere – Linden Tree Books, Los Altos
2026-03-17 18:00 - 19:30 | Christ Episcopal Church, 1040 Border Road, Los Altos, 94024, United States
Please join Stacey in Los Altos for the launch of Heiress of Nowhere, Stacey’s upcoming historical fiction – a historical gothic mystery about an orphan racing to uncover a killer. Stacey will be in conversation with bestselling author Stephanie Garber.
This event will be held at Christ Episcopal Church, located at 1040 Border Road, just 1.5 miles from Linden Tree. It will include a public signing and time for audience Q&A. This is a free event, but you must RSVP as space is limited.
Special Pre-order Gift when you pre-order the book with Linden Tree Books before March 17, 2026 not only will you receive a signed copy, you’ll also receive a free book sleeve handmade by author Stacey Lee herself! Each sleeve is one-of-a-kind, stitched from reclaimed luxury fabrics (silk, velvet, brocade, alpaca, linen, wool), and can be put to a variety of uses (protect your book, corral your cords, stash your iPad, etc.). Quantities are limited, so pre-order today!
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An orphan races to uncover a killer—who may have come from the sea—when she and her beloved orcas fall under suspicion in this historical gothic mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of The Downstairs Girl, Stacey Lee.
1918. Orcas Island, Washington.
Lucy Nowhere has spent her eighteen years working on the vast estate of the eccentric shipbuilder who took her in after she washed ashore in a green canoe as a baby. But she has long wished for a life off the island, and in a matter of days, she is set to leave for college—and, for the first time, choose her own future.
Then she finds her employer’s severed head on the beach. Rumors swirl that a mischievous spirit and its minions, the sea wolves, have struck again. Lucy doesn’t believe in myths. She knows that a human—a human murderer—killed him. And when she is unexpectedly named heiress to the estate, she understands the next target is her.
Her closest friend, the estate’s vigilant young guard, begs her to escape while she can. But Lucy knows the only way she can discover who she is, and free the island of its curse, is to find the real killer—before she becomes the next victim.

Texas Library Association (TLA) - Annual Conference
2026-03-29 - 2026-03-31 | George R Brown Convention Center, 1001 Avenida De Las Americas, Houston, TX, 77010, United States
Come meet me at the Texas Library Association (TLA) Annual Conference, the largest conference for library professionals in Texas. It is scheduled to take place from March 29-31, 2026 in Houston.
Details on Stacey’s planned events will be forthcoming closer to the conference date. We hope you can join her there.

Yallwest
2026-04-25 | Santa Monica High School, 601 Pico Blvd, Santa Monica, CA, United States
YALLWEST is a young adult and middle grade book festival taking place in Santa Monica, California on Sat April 25th.
Stacey’s schedule for the festival:

Panel: Scream Queens and Detective Teens: How to Build a Mystery without Revealing Too Much

12 Noon @ Greek Theatre

Book Signing – 1 pm @ Innovation Quad

Panel: The Name Game: Choosing a Title, Character Names, and Everything Else!

2 pm @ Greek Theatre

In Conversation with Jesse Sutanto
2026-04-28 19:00 - 20:00 | Kepler’s Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, United States
Stacey will be in conversation with Jesse Q. Sutanto – the USA Today bestselling author of Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers to discuss Jesse’s new title Ms. Mebel Goes Back to the Chopping Block. Jesse grew up shuttling back and forth between Indonesia, Singapore, and Oxford, and considers all three places her home. She has a master’s degree from Oxford University and a bachelor’s from the University of California, Berkeley. Jesse currently lives in Jakarta with her husband and two young daughters.

AAPI Joy: AAPI Voices, Then & Now
2026-05-16 13:30 - 14:30 | Los Angeles Central Library, 630 W. 5th Street, Los Angeles, 90071, United States
Celebrate the diversity of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities in Los Angeles at AAPI Joy, a free festival for all ages. Explore the City’s rich AAPI heritage and join us in forging a shared future of acceptance, cooperation, and inspiration with the greater Los Angeles community.
Stacey will be at the event speaking about her book Kill Her Twice – a gripping murder mystery set against the glittering yet shadowed backdrop of 1930s Los Angeles. But this isn’t merely a whodunit. It weaves together the tensions of Old Hollywood with the lived realities of Chinese American communities—exploring identity, resilience, and the quiet complexities of family.
Time: 1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Location: Teen’Scape

CINDY PHAM's The Secret World of Briar Rose in conversation with Stacey Lee
2026-06-05 18:00 - 19:00 | Hicklebees Bookstore, 1378 Lincoln Ave, San Jose, CA, 95125, United States
Famous for her Youtube channel readwithcindy, Cindy Pham is releasing her debut YA novel, The Secret World of Briar Rose. This novel is a queer retelling of Sleeping Beauty, centering around the romance between young thief Corin, in desparate search of her missing sister, and the Princess from the classic fairy tale.
Joining Cindy in conversation for this event will be author Stacey Lee, bestselling author of Heiress of Nowhere, The Downstairs Girl, and Luck of the Titanic!
This beautiful, emotional retelling of Sleeping Beauty is a deep dive into the psyche of the cursed princess. As Corin searches an ancient castle for her missing sister, she finds a portal into the mind of the Princess Amelia, who has been living there as her alter ego Briar Rose. In her dreams, the world is full of dazzling fantasies, and dark secrets. For a first look into the book, be sure to stop by and pick up your own copy, and get it signed by the author!

Leigh's Bookstore - Author Event
2026-06-25 19:00 - 20:00 | Leigh’s Bookstore, 121 South Murphy Ave, Sunnyvale, CA, 94086, United States
Leigh’s Favorite Books – an indie bookstore in Sunnyvale, CA – will host an author discussion with Stacey to discuss her latest gothic historical fiction book, Heiress of Nowhere.

Leigh’s Favorite Books Event on Facebook

Darvill's Bookstore - Orcas Island
2026-07-17 18:30 - 20:00 | Orcas Island Public Library, 500 Rose St, Eastsound, WA, 98245, United States
Darvill’s Bookstore of Orcas Island will be hosting Stacey for a moderated discussion of her gothic historical fiction novel, Heiress of Nowhere, set in 1918 on Orcas Island. The event will be hosted at Orcas Public Library.
Come join us for Pizza and Popcorn at the Orcas Island Public Library.
