Henry County Author Talk with Jenna Blum in Conversation with Travis Weik

Join us in the library’s auditorium for a special Henry County Author Talk featuring New York Times Bestselling Author Jenna Blum in conversation with Courier Times Editor Travis Weik. Jenna is visiting as part of her national tour for her newest release, Murder Your Darlings.

Be among the first to arrive—the first 100 attendees will receive a free copy of the book! Additional copies will also be available for purchase from Kids Ink during the event. After the talk, Jenna Blum will be signing books.

This event is proudly sponsored by the Library Board of Directors. We extend our sincere thanks to our sponsors for their dedication to supporting literacy, education, and high-quality, engaging events for families.

About the book:

Simone “Sam” Vetiver is a mid-career novelist finishing a lukewarm publicity tour while facing a deadline for a new book on which she’s totally blocked. Recently divorced, Sam is worrying where her life is going when she receives glowing fan mail from stratospherically successful author William Corwyn, renowned for his female-centric novels. When William and Sam meet and his literary sympathy is as intense as their chemistry, both writers think they’ve found The One.

But as in their own novels, things between Sam and William are not what they seem. William has multiple stalkers, including a scarily persistent one named The Rabbit. He lives on a remote Maine island, where his writer life resembles The Shining. And when writers turn up dead, including from The Darlings support group William runs, Sam has to ask: Is it The Rabbit—William’s #1 Stalker? Another woman scorned? Is William’s charming demeanor a fact—or a dangerous fiction?

Narrated by Sam, William, and The Rabbit, MURDER YOUR DARLINGS is at once a wickedly witty look at the writerly world, full of behind-the-scenes publishing lore and relatable characters, and also a down-the-rabbit-hole tale of how far people will go for love.

About the author:

Jenna Blum is the New York Times and # 1 internationally bestselling author of novels Those Who Save Us, The Stormchasers, and The Lost Family; memoir Woodrow on the Bench; audiocourse “The Author at Work: The Art of Writing Fiction” and original podcast The Key of Love. Jenna is CEO and Co-Founder of online author interview platform A Mighty Blaze and one of Oprah.com readers’ Top 30 Women Writers. Jenna earned her MA in Creative Writing at Boston University and has taught workshops for Boston University, Grub Street Writers, A Mighty Blaze, and numerous other institutions for over 25 years. She interviewed Holocaust survivors for Steven Spielberg’s Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation and is a professional public speaker, traveling nationally and internationally to speak about her work. Jenna is based in Boston.