

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Book Signing with Genre-Blending Author Emily Jane at Bobzbay Books!
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 05 Jun, 2026 at 05:00 pm – Fri, 05 Jun, 2026 at 07:00 pm (-05:00)
- **Event Description**: We’re so excited to welcome genre-blending speculative fiction author Emily Jane to Bobzbay Books for a book signing to celebrate the release of her latest novel, 'Mr. Yay' -- out 6/2/26!

Join us at the shop on Friday, June 5th from 5pm-7pm to meet the author, shop her excellent selection of genre-blending and reality-bending speculative fiction, and take home a signed book or few! 

Her latest release, 'Mr. Yay', as well as her previous three novels ('American Werewolves', 'Here Beside the Rising Tide', and 'On Earth as It Is on Television') will be available for purchase during the book signing, but pre-orders are highly encouraged! To pre-order and purchase Emily Jane's books, head to this link: https://bobzbay.square.site/emilyjane

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About Emily Jane's Books:

'Mr. Yay': (out 6/2/26!): A hilarious, genre-blending speculative novel about rappers and dogs, love and marriage, private detectives, nostalgia, and embracing your true self, in a world where the past is different than what you remember...Witty, heartfelt, deeply weird, and utterly original, 'Mr. Yay' explores how we grapple with inexplicable sudden shifts in the world around us and the identity crises they birth. If the past we remember has changed, are we who we think we are? Is anyone? 
Pre-Order here: https://bobzbay.square.site/product/6-2-26-release-mr-yay-by-emily-jane/73RIPY7AS2PZAVUFEIEEXR4T

'American Werewolves': America’s venture capitalist werewolves meet their match in USA Today bestseller Emily Jane’s third rollicking, genre-defying novel...Epic and electric, 'American Werewolves' brings readers from the wilds of the New World to the opulent board rooms and golf courses of the twenty-first century, where devouring the weak is an American birthright as old as the country itself. 
Order here: https://bobzbay.square.site/product/american-werewolves-by-emily-jane/6OOMWDXO726IX4JJDLL2H2MG

'Here Beside the Rising Tide': When a romance author tries to escape chaos by taking her kids to her childhood beach home, her plans are upended by the return of a deceased childhood friend, newfound love, and… sea monsters? The USA Today bestselling author of 'On Earth as It Is on Television' returns with an earnest, humorous take on what humans will do to survive and thrive… or not. 
Order here: https://bobzbay.square.site/product/here-beside-the-rising-tide-by-emily-jane/QT2H5THQGKXWZGZM2DFP3PYB

 'On Earth as It Is on Television': In Emily Jane’s rollicking debut, when spaceships arrive and then depart suddenly without a word, the certainty that we are not alone in the universe turns to intense uncertainty as to our place within it...Embracing the strangeness that is life in the twenty-first century, 'On Earth as It Is on Television' is a rollicking, heartfelt tale of first contact that practically leaps off the planet. 
Order here: https://bobzbay.square.site/product/on-earth-as-it-is-on-television-by-emily-jane/GAX37QTV64BIEX2MJEQOGODR

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About the Author:

Emily Jane grew up in Boise, Boulder, and San Francisco. She earned her B.A. in psychology from the University of San Francisco and her J.D. from the UC Law San Francisco. She lives on an urban farm in Cincinnati, Ohio with her husband, Steve; their two children; their cats, Scully and Ripley; and their husky Nymeria. 

For more information about Emily Jane, head to: https://www.emilyjaneauthor.com

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## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Bloomington
- **state**: IL
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 419 N Main St
Bloomington, IL, United States, Illinois 61701
- **lat**: 40.48198
- **long**: -88.99341
- **full address**: 419 N Main St
Bloomington, IL, United States, Illinois 61701, 419 N Main St, Bloomington, IL 61701-3915, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Fri, 05 Jun, 2026 at 05:00 pm (-05:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 419 N Main St
Bloomington, IL, United States, Illinois 61701, 419 N Main St, Bloomington, IL 61701-3915, United States
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  - **A:** Bobzbay Books
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