LITERATURE + LECTURES

Monday, October 17 at 5:00pm, Blue Willow Bookshop presents Pseudonymous Bosch.  Pseudonymous Bosch will discuss and sign You Have to Stop This, the final book in the Secret Series.

Bosch delivers You Have to Stop This, the fifth and final book in his Secret series. When a mummy disappears from the local history museum while Cass and her friends Max-Ernest and Yo-Yoji are there, they try to solve the case in order to clear their names and, they hope, discover the Secret they have been seeking.

Pseudonymous Bosch is the celebrated author of the New York Times bestselling “Secret Series” beloved by young readers. Bosch launched the “Secret Series” in 2007 with the novel The Name of this Book Is Secret, described by Booklist as “Equal parts snarky and delightful,” and by Publishers Weekly as "equal parts supernatural whodunit, suspense-filled adventure, and evocative coming-of-age tale."

The five book series also includes If You’re Reading This, It’s Too Late, which School Library Journal calls “Laugh-out-loud funny;” This Book Is Not Good for You; This Isn’t What It Looks Like; and his newest, You Have to Stop This, where a trip to the local natural history museum turns dangerous. Each of the novels in the series is based on one of the five senses—smell, sound, taste, sight and touch. The novel currently ranks #3 in children’s books under the category of mysteries, espionage, and detectives on Amazon.

His publisher maintains that Pseudonymous Bosch’s identity is a secret. According to pseudonymousbosch.com, “Not much is known about him other than that he has a passionate love of chocolate and cheese and an equally passionate hatred of mayonnaise. Rumors of Boschian sightings are just as frequent and about as reliable as reports of alien abductions.” To this day, many continue to conjecture about his true identity. It is known that the “Secret Series” is copyrighted by Raphael Simon, who has written episodes for programs on Nickelodeon.