Inside SoCal (Book Worms) (10/8)
BOOK WORMS
The love of books brings a 17-year-old's bookstore and two New York Times bestselling authors together.
ANNABELLE'S BOOK CLUB LA
It all started during the pandemic. Annabelle Chang's friends were looking for book recommendations, and since Annabelle is a voracious reader, she had lots of them. Months later she had an idea: to open her own YA (Young Adult) bookstore to fill the missing need in the city. Today, you can find her bookstore, Annabelle's Book Club LA, in Studio City which brings in kids, teens and families from across the county. While YA focused, she made sure there is a book for everyone to enjoy in the store – coffee table books, adult novels, classics – not to mention fun merchandise like candles and pop art t-shirts that she designed.
When you meet Annabelle, you'll find an old soul and a young girl existing in perfect harmony. Her passion for books is infectious and since she reads about 8 books a month, she really can give you the best recs.
Annabelle's Book Club LA
12200 Ventura Blvd.
Studio City, CA 91604
Open Tuesday-Sunday 11am-6pm
NICOLA & DAVID YOON
Love is the guiding principle for New York Times bestselling authors Nicola and David Yoon. They live it as a married couple, write about it in their beautiful and fun YA novels, and promote it under their Joy Revolution imprint which embraces diverse voices and storylines that celebrate love. You can find their novels at Annabelle's Book Club LA and other major bookstores.
More about the Authors:
Joy Revolution is an imprint focused on romance novels by people of color about people of color, inspired by Nicola and David Yoon's love of romance novels and romantic comedies, and desire from an early age to see themselves—people of color—at the center of these stories. Anchored by the core belief that love has the power to unmake and remake the world, Joy Revolution is a place where readers and writers can feel at home and welcome—a safe place where they can comfortably belong, and be free to revel in the full measure of their humanity.
Nicola Yoon is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Instructions for Dancing, Everything, Everything and The Sun Is Also a Star. She is a National Book Award finalist, a Michael L. Printz Honor Book recipient, and a Coretta Scott King New Talent Award winner. Both Everything, Everything and The Sun Is Also a Star have been made into major motion pictures. Nicola grew up in Jamaica and Brooklyn, and lives in Los Angeles with her husband, novelist David Yoon, and their daughter. She is a hopeless romantic who firmly believes that you can fall in love in an instant and that it can last forever. Visit Nicola online at nicolayoon.com and follow @NicolaYoon on Twitter, and Instagram.
David Yoon is the author of the New York Times bestseller Frankly in Love, a William C. Morris Award finalist and Asian/Pacific American Award for Young Adult Literature Honor book, as well as the YA novel Super Fake Love Song and the adult thriller Version Zero. He also drew the illustrations for his wife Nicola Yoon's #1 New York Times bestseller Everything, Everything. David grew up in Orange County, California, and now lives in Los Angeles with Nicola and their daughter. Visit David online at davidyoon.com and follow @DavidYoon on Twitter and @Davidoftheyoon on Instagram.
