Join us in welcoming four local authors for AAPI Heritage Month!

Erica Espejo, Victoria Lum, Cee Yang, and Mia Hopkins will be meeting readers and signing books at Underdog Bookstore on Sunday, May 31st from 3-6PM.

Underdog Board Member, Nicole Arca, will be moderating our panel at 4PM.

All are welcome for this FREE event!

About the Authors
Erica Victoria Espejo is an author, cosplayer, cat mom, and aspiring magical girl from Irvine, CA. She also runs a blog about convention fandom history at the website scarlet-rhapsody.com and published “THE FANGIRL DIARIES” (2025), a memoir about girlhood and anime fandom before social media and streaming.

Victoria Lum writes angsty, addictive romance featuring morally gray heroes, fierce heroines, and love stories laced with danger, obsession, and high emotional stakes. Perfect for readers who crave intensity and heat, her books deliver swoon, suspense, and a hard-earned happily ever after. Her latest release “SWORN IN DECEIT” is a twisty enemies to lovers, arranged marriage, secret society/organized crime dark romance.

Cee Yang loves to write cute, slow burn romances with plenty of tension, spice, and swoon. Her books are the perfect palate-cleansers with cozy and found family themes with gentle, cinnamon roll MMCs. “NO SUMMER HOTTER THAN YOU” a spicy summer read with 11 🔥 chapters. Friends to lovers. Fake dating. She falls first, he falls hardest.

Mia Hopkins writes lush romances starring fun, sexy characters who love to get down and dirty. Her award-winning books have been featured by many publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today and Entertainment Weekly. Her new anthology “LOVE AT THE FIESTA” (May 26) is a collection of stories centering Filipino-American characters at a springtime festival in Napa.