
Author Visit with Dane Erbach
Featured Book

Meat Bees
Jaws with wasps.
By the time Scarlett Sutton arrives at her dad’s cabin in the Smoky Mountains, two locals have already been eaten alive by wasps. Of course, she doesn’t know this yet. All Scarlett knows is her mom finally checked herself into a hospital to take care of her mental health, leaving Scarlett alone with her dad all summer.
After he insists that she get a job, Scarlett accepts a position at nearby Stovetop Outfitters, hoping to spend as much time away from him as possible. She doesn’t expect to trip over a skeletonized corpse beneath the zip-line during one of her shifts—and definitely doesn’t expect to be thrown into a Netflix-style true crime investigation.
The local sheriff’s department is so overwhelmed by these unsolved deaths that when one of the Stovetop Outfitters employees disappears next, Scarlett and her co-workers set out to find him on their own. They discover something much more horrifying: a swarm of yellow jackets stripping the meat off his body. Scarlett never signed up to solve a disgusting mystery, but in order to protect her friends and family, she must defeat the mountain’s darkness and all these godforsaken wasps.
This book will be available for purchase at the event.
About This Event
We’re looking forward to welcoming author Dane Erbach to Read Between The Lynes on October 25, 2026, at 1 p.m. for a meet and greet and book signing. His novel Meat Bees, (published in April 2026) is a horror, coming-of-age, fiction book, and might be perfect to read this spooky season.
Featured Author

Dane Erbach
Dane Erbach is a writer from Chicago’s northwest suburbs who teaches English and journalism at a public high school. During the summer, he teaches writing at Northwestern University to gifted and talented students. His writing has appeared in Mythaxis Magazine, The Freak!, Perseid Prophecies, the Amazine, JMWW Journal, and elsewhere, including several speculative anthologies. His novel MEAT BEES was published in 2026 by CLASH BOOKS. When not writing or reading, you can find him catching Pokémon with his family, raiding his community library, and tending to the pumpkin patch in his backyard.
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