Author Chat with Chip Pons

Join us for this Author Chat + Signing celebrating the release of Dearly Departed with Chip Pons! Chip will be joined by two amazing conversation partners: Ambar Cordova & Chelsea Curto!

We’re dressing up for the occasion! Wearing black clothing or funeral garb is highly encouraged, but not required.

📅 Date: Wednesday, June 17th
⏰ Time: 7:00 PM
📍 Location: Azalea Lodge Mead Botanical Garden | 1300 Denning Dr Winter Park, FL 32789

🎟️ $30 includes a paperback copy of Dearly Departed

Signing Rules:

• Your copy of Dearly Departed will be signed when we hand it over to you. This is the only title that can be personalized. 
• Authors will sign up to two books or items per author. 
• Photos will be taken at the signing table, but no videos please.
• Additional event preorders will be available for ticketed attendees. 

About the Book:

Hope is a dangerous thing for gods. Even former ones.

From the highly beloved author of "contemporary romance magic" (Christina Lauren) Winging It with You comes a Hades-inspired gay rom-com, in which the former god of the Underworld turned grumpy funeral director must find a loophole in the Immortal Retirement Act that banished him to Earth, until the florist next door who sees life in full bloom begins to unravel all his carefully laid plans.

Hayden Harlow, once the mighty Hades, has spent centuries quietly resenting his fall from immortality. Stripped of his godhood by the allegedly irreversible Immortal Retirement Act, he now runs Harlow and Sons Funeral Home—a front for his eternal sentencing among mortals, and a bleak reminder of the purpose he's lost. Still, he's determined to claw his way back...if only the Fates at City Hall would stop toying with him.

Enter Levi Wilder: a florist with an artist's heart, an infectious smile, and a gift for finding beauty in life's messiest moments. When Hayden storms into Levi's shop to complain about a bouquet of sunflowers—an offensive choice for a funeral, in his opinion—their worlds collide. Hayden is all restraint and shadows; Levi is all sunshine and charm. But beneath the clash lies an undeniable spark neither can ignore.

As their connection blossoms, Hayden finds himself caught between the life he once knew and the bright future Levi dares him to imagine. But trusting Levi means risking the walls he's kept in place all these years—and it's not just his heart on the line. Because in the threads of fate, one choice can change everything.