VIRTUAL EVENT: Be Right Back by Bill Wood with Clay McLeod Chapman

Join us for our first virtual event as we celebrate Bill Wood's latest horror-thriller Be Right Back, the sequel to LET'S SPLIT UP!

Joining Bill in conversation is author Clay McLeod Chapman (The Devil Inside)!

Don't forget to pre-order a signed copy of the book here! (books will ship on 3/2/26).

Attendees are welcome to leave their questions for Wood and Rose in the chatroom for a virtual Q&A.

About the Be Right Back:

A year after solving their last mystery, the Sanera gang has split up to pursue college life, leaving their detective days behind — except for Cam, who struggles to move on. Now an assistant coach for the Sanera Sabretooths, Cam feels adrift until the Halloween festival brings the gang back together for a commemorative event. But when Cam sees the Carrington Ghoul — a figure tied to their final case — he's thrust into a new mystery.

As Sanera's Halloween festival descends into chaos, the gang discovers that someone is using local legends to commit gruesome murders. The killer's obsession with their past exploits becomes clear as each murder echoes the myths they once debunked. With the town's history exploited for tourism and the gang's fame drawing unwanted attention, they must unravel the clues before the killer strikes again — this time targeting one of their own.

Facing familiar fears and new terrors, the gang must rely on their wits and each other to survive a twisted plot that threatens to make their past case the stuff of legend — for all the wrong reasons.

About the authors:

Bill Wood is a British author of young adult mysteries. After earning a degree in Film & Screenwriting at Birmingham City University, he worked as a bookseller while writing his novels and building a presence on TikTok.

His debut novel, Let’s Split Up was published by Scholastic in September 2024 and quickly became the UK’s fastest-selling YA debut of the year. It is currently in development for a live action television series by Scholastic Entertainment. The sequel, Be Right Back is set for publication in October 2025.

Clay McLeod Chapman is the author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes, Kill Your Darling, Stay on the Line, What Kind of Mother, Ghost Eaters, Whisper Down the Lane, The Remaking, and miss corpus, story collections nothing untoward, commencement and rest area, as well as The Tribe middlegrade series: Homeroom Headhunters, Camp Cannibal and Academic Assassins.