Adult Fiction

Annie Barrows
Annie Barrows is the author of the New York Times bestseller THE TRUTH ACCORDING TO US (Random House) and co-author of THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY (Dial) which was adapted into a Netflix film in 2018; she is also author of the adored, wildly successful IVY AND BEAN series of chapter books. (LD)

Robyn Carr
Robyn Carr recently won the RWA’s Rita Award for Lifetime Achievement. She is the author of forty-three captivating novels (Mira) that count 28 million copies in print and which have been sold in thirty different countries. Robyn has spent 235 weeks on the NYT list and her VIRGIN RIVER series will be adapted into a 10-episode series on Netflix. (LD)

Victoria Christopher Murray
Victoria Christopher Murray is the co-author of the instant New York Times bestseller THE PERSONAL LIBRARIAN (Berkley). Her novel STAND YOUR GROUND (Touchstone) won the NAACP Award for Outstanding Literary Fiction in 2016, and several of her novels are being adapted into Lifetime films. (LD)

Rea Frey
Rea Frey is an award-winning author of four nonfiction books and three domestic suspense novels with St. Martin’s Press. Her debut novel, NOT HER DAUGHTER, was hailed as one of Marie Claire’s top fiction by women and was optioned for film. She’s also the founder and CEO of Writeway, where she teaches aspiring authors the three paths to publication. (RB)

Carla Norton
Carla Norton’s first nonfiction book, PERFECT VICTIM: The True Story of the Girl in the Box (Morrow), was a #1 New York Times bestseller. She recently turned to fiction with THE EDGE OF NORMAL and WHAT DOESN’T KILL HER (Minotaur) which won the 2016 Nancy Pearl Award for Best Book in Genre Fiction and the President’s Book Award Gold Medal for Suspense/Thriller Fiction, respectively, and one of which was recently optioned by Bold Entertainment. (LD)

Marybeth Whalen
Marybeth Whalen’s sixth riveting novel of domestic suspense, THE THINGS WE WISH WERE TRUE (Lake Union/Amazon), spent August glued to the #1 position on Amazon. She is also one of the co-founders of SHE READS (www.shereads.org) an online community and book club for women’s fiction. (LD)