Date/Time
Date(s) - 01/31/2026
4:00 pm
Location
Vroman's Bookstore
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Rebekah Fabulon, Author of “Lost Girls of Hollow Lake,” in conversation with Veronica Bane (Photo – Vroman’s Bookstore)
Join Young Adult Horrot author Rebekah Faubion at Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena for the debut of her hot-off-the-presses novel “Lost Girls of Hollow Lake” Saturday, January 31st, at 4:00 pm.
Packed full of tension and perfect for fans of the hit show “Yellowjackets,” “Lost Girls” centers on Evie, a lonely teenage girl, who was part of a group of eight left behind on a nature trip.
Only five of them make it back, and a killer might not be done with them yet.
Author Rebekah Faubion will be speaking with fellow author Veronica Bane and signing the book, which is geared toward anyone who has found themselves isolated and misunderstood for a period of their life.
Faubion identifies strongly with that feeling. “There are seasons of your life when you are so misunderstood,” she said in a recent interview. “It can be so isolating. In those moments, we don’t even know we are looking for it, but we need someone to see us and not judge us.”
One of the figures in the book that helps protagonist Evie the most is her dog Tiger. Animals have always played a key role as encouraging companions in Faubion’s own life. She has dedicated “Lost Girls” to her beloved dog of 16 years whom she adopted when she was 18 and going through a really rough time. Caring for another living being helped her see outside her own problems and receive unconditional love at the same time:
The world is bigger than you. Even if it is just this dog. There is something worth fighting for. It can feel really hopeful. There is no story for Eve without Tiger. You can’t know that your dog loves you unconditionally without thinking knowing there is something about you worth loving you.
Always drawn to storytelling, Faubion wrote her first full movie script at the age of nine. After moving to New York City as a young, married mother in the 1990s, she discovered the world of young adult through the explosion of the “Hunger Games” books, and shifted to novels from scripts, landing an agent quickly.
It was never an easy journey though. That agent didn’t sell her work, and neither did a second. Faubion finally broke through with a co-author under a pen name with a serialized book on an online platform, resulting in the novel “Ellie is Cool,” about a young TV writer forced to attend her ten-year high school reunion.
That in turn led to her first solo book, “The Lovers.” The book explores a teenage romance between two girls, which coincided with Faubion’s own coming-out as bisexual, and a story she’s still affectionate about: “It’s so special, a genuinely sweet story.”
Her second book for Berkley Publishing was “The Sun and the Moon,” which came out last summer, also exploring queer love with slightly older characters.
The newest “Lost Girls of Hollow Lake” also features a queer protagonist, and Faubion believes horror is a perfect place for queer characters to author their own stories. In a genre that once only featured such characters as killers or victims, she says that by making a young woman like Eve the protagonist:
You’re reclaiming that narrator, and having the power of having the knife…I wanted my protagonist to be an empowered person. She’s a good student with a best friend of her dog. Really fully living her life in a way that queer people can do. Her queerness is just there…The killer is trying to push them [the survivor girls] into something that makes them feel trapped like they were on the island. We have to fight all the time against what people think we should be.
Meet Faubion and hear her read passages from “Lost Girls of Hollow Lake” this Saturday, January 31st at 4:00 pm. She also has signings coming up in February in Chattanooga, Tennessee (The Book & Cover), and San Diego (Mysterious Galaxy Books). More about her can be discovered at her website.
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