What happens when you take Sherlock Holmes, The Last of Us, Star Wars, and anime and cram it into one award-winning book? That's when you get My Mind is Not Yours by Eliot Esparza. 

Eliot credits a variety of pop culture icons as influences for his hit, My Mind Is Not Yours. The urban-fantasy detective book is the first part of a series of young-adult novels available at bookstores everywhere.

To learn more about Eliot, visit his website: http://eliotdesparza.com/

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