Amanda Madison is welcome new friend of BACC. An up and coming creative writer, she will be signing copies of her acclaimed debut novel, Program 38: Sparks at Big Apple Comic Con. Amanda was raised in Northeastern Pennsylvania where she spent her childhood dreaming of magic and saving the world. Fresh out of her creative writing bachelor’s degree at Western New England University, she plans to do just that: writing stories that inspire people to find the good in themselves. Driven by her family and close friends, Amanda strives to bring a sense of found family everywhere she goes. Project 38, Synopsis: Kelsey Clay is running from a past she wants no part of, but can’t escape her powerful destiny. Fear led Kelsey to hide her superhuman abilities, hoping she could forget about them while attending Sherman University. When she’s accepted into the mysterious Program 38, her powers—and apprehensions—will be thrown front and center. She can’t escape a part of herself she’s born to embrace. Join Kelsey as she learns about herself in a chaotic world of lies, mysteries, and supervillains. With her new friends, she realizes studying for exams is the least of her problems. As a corruptive force consumes the student body, the superheroes of Program 38 must determine why it’s happening and who’s the villain behind it. The answers they find plunge them into a rabbit hole of Sherman’s shadowy past. War is coming; Kelsey must choose to deny who she is or accept herself in this harrowing chronicle,