P&P Live! Bethany C. Morrow | A CHORUS RISES with Sandhya Menon

Join Bethany C. Morrow as she discusses her new book A CHORUS RISESA SONG BELOW WATER NOVEL with Sandhya Menon. Click here to purchase A CHORUS RISES

Teen influencer Naema Bradshaw has it all: she’s famous, stylish, gorgeous—and she’s an Eloko, a charismatic person gifted with a melody that people adore. Everyone loves her, until she's cast as the villain who exposed a Siren to the whole world. Dragged by the media and canceled by her fans, no one understands her side: not her boyfriend, not her friends, not even her fellow Eloko. Vilified by those closest to her, Naema heads to the Southwest to stage a comeback. When she turns to her remaining online fans for support, life feels almost like it used to: the fandom, the adoration, the community that takes her side. But when her online advocates start targeting other Black girls, Naema will realize that—for Black girls like her—even the privilege of fame has its limits. And only Naema can discover the true purpose of her power, and how to use it.

Bethany C. Morrow is an Indie Bestselling author who writes for adult and young adult audiences, in genres ranging from speculative literary to contemporary fantasy to historical. She is author of the novels Mem and A Song Below Water, which is an Audie, Ignyte and Locus finalist. She is editor/contributor to the young adult anthology Take the Mic, the 2020 ILA Social Justice in Literature award winner. Her work has been chosen as Indies Introduce and Indie Next picks, and featured in The LA Times, Forbes, Bustle, Buzzfeed, and more. She is included on USA Today’s list of 100 Black novelists and fiction writers you should read.

Sandhya Menon is the New York Times bestselling author of several novels including the Rosetta Academy series, 10 Things I Hate About Pinky, When Dimple Met Rishi, and There's Something About Sweetie . Her books have been featured in many cool places, including on The Today Show, Cosmopolitan, Teen Vogue, NPR, Seventeen, Entertainment Weekly, and Buzzfeed. Two of her books have won the Colorado Book Award, and her Dimpleverse series was turned into a hit TV show with Netflix India. A full-time dog servant, Sandhya makes her home in the foggy mountains of Colorado.

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