THURSDAY 20 NOVEMBER 2025 | OFFICERS MESS 50 Oxlade Drive New Farm QLD 4005
6.00pm for a 6.30pm start | 60 mins
Join us for a fantastic fantasy evening with Stacey McEwan, Amber V Nicole and Hannah Nicole Maehrer as they talk to Amy McKinnon about their books, their work and their relationship to the world of fantasy writing.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
STACEY McEWAN
Stacey McEwan is a New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author of romantic fantasy. Her high school English teacher once called her writing "above year level standard” and she took that B+ very seriously. Stacey received a bachelor's degree in education in 2012 and worked as a classroom teacher for eleven years. She is a content creator on multiple platforms, including Tiktok and Instagram. Stacey was born and raised on the Gold Coast, Australia, and still resides in her hometown with her husband, two children and one questionable dog.
AMBER V NICOLE
Amber V. Nicole is an international and USA Today bestselling dark fantasy author who thrives on writing complex villains and stories full of epic stakes. When she is not writing new and fantastic storylines to devastate her readers, she spends her time playing video games and obsessing over her favourite anime. Amber continues to follow her passion for exploring morally grey characters, so you can expect more epic tales to come.
HANNAH NICOLE MAEHRER
Hannah Nicole Maehrer, or as TikTok Knows her, @hannahnicolemae. is a fantasy romance author and BookToker with a propensity for villains. When she's not creating bookish comedy skits about Villains and Assistants, she's writing to Taylor Swift songs. Her biggest passions in life include romance, magic, laughter, and finding ways to include them all in everything she creates. Most days you can find her with her head in the clouds and a pen in her hand.
ABOUT THE BOOKS
A Forbidden Alchemy by Stacey McEwan
Australian BookTok star Stacey McEwan’s stunning new slow-burn romantasy series traces a fated pair who stumble upon a world-changing secret and are catapulted into a violent class war, finding each other amidst love, loss, and devasting betrayals.
Nina Harrow and Patrick Colson are only twelve years old when they are whisked from their disenfranchised mining towns to dazzling Belavere City to be tested for magical abilities. Nina’s lifelong dream is to become an Artisan, a powerful elemental mage who fulfills the city’s grand ambitions, while Patrick wants only to return to his family of Craftsmen.
Together, they discover a devastating secret: Artisans aren’t born, but chosen. With this information, they take their future into their own hands. Patrick departs for home, while Nina finds her place as one of the rarest, most coveted types of Artisan.
When a Craftsman revolution ignites years later, Nina is captured by Patrick’s rebel group – and despite the years, he hasn’t forgotten her. In fact, he needs her help for a mission that could shift the tides against Belavere City, which she reluctantly accepts, battling the sparks between them. But when Nina’s first love reappears, asking her to betray Patrick for the Artisans, she faces an impossible choice that will determine the fate of their world.
The Wrath of the Fallen by Amber V Nicole
Samkiel and Dianna will return in the fourth, sizzling, epic, dark romantasy in the Gods & Monsters series from BookTok sensation, Amber V. Nicole!
War is on the horizon, and without the ring of Oblivion, Samkiel struggles to control the ancient darkness living under his skin. Alongside him, Dianna's dreams are plagued with messages of retribution as an archaic power calls to her.
Desperate to find answers for them both, Samkiel is forced to embark on a dangerous voyage to the one place he hoped to never go: the Otherworld.
Meanwhile, as Nismera's thirst for power and her armada only grows stronger, new enemies emerge with debts of their own, demanding payment in blood.
With ever-circling threats can Dianna and Samkiel ever find a way to reclaim the realms and his rightful throne? Or will their love burn everything to the ground?
Only one thing remains true - not everyone will make it out of this war alive.
Accomplice to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer
Once Upon a Time meets The Office in this laugh-out-loud romantasy book based on Hannah Nicole Maehrer's viral TikTok series about the sunshine assistant to an Evil Villain... and their unexpected romance.
REWARD OFFERED: Apprentice to The Villain wanted for treason (light), magical property damage (alleged), and one incident involving a weaponized scone (accurate). Frequently seen with a grumpy frog (crowned, judgmental). Answers to "Evie" or "Stop that."
Evie Sage didn’t mean to become the right-hand woman to the kingdom’s most terrifying villain. One minute, she was applying for an entry-level position that promised "light paperwork and occasional beheadings," and the next, she was knee-deep in magical mayhem, murder plots, and an entirely inappropriate crush on her brooding, sharp-jawed, walking disaster of a boss.
Now, with a magical prophecy unraveling, assassins showing up in the break room, and a suspicious amount of frogs wearing crowns, Evie has to figure out how to survive her job without setting the kingdom on fire?or her dignity, which is hanging by a very sarcastic thread.
Being evil-adjacent was never part of the five-year plan. But then again…neither was falling for The Villain.
