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T.L. Simpson

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T.L. Simpson is a nationally acclaimed novelist and journalist whose YA novel Cope Field was a 2026 Michael L. Printz Honor Book. A longtime newspaper editor in Arkansas, Simpson draws on his experience covering sports, crime, and community life in his fiction.

 

 

Schedule

1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Iberville Building, Le Francois, Room C
Twists & Turns: Seeking Truth in Young Adult Suspense
Channelle Desamours, They Call Her Regret
Liz Lawson, Murder Between Friends
T.L. Simpson, Accelerant
with moderator Manda Choate
(Ages 13 and up)

2:45 pm to 3:30 pm
Cavalier House Books Tent
Book Signing

Accerlerant

From the Printz Honor-winning author of Cope Field

After his best friends are attacked at a Pride demonstration, anime nerd Briar Stokes grabs a length of pipe, dons a Japanese demon mask, and hops on his street bike with one goal: to enact violent revenge against the white supremacists infesting his rural Missouri community.

What he doesn’t know is how deep the roots of hate grow, nor how much they’ve entangled his own family. But when his quest for vengeance pits him against his own stepbrother, who faces radicalization by that same hate group, Briar soon learns the hard way that violence doesn’t stop violence . . . It accelerates it.