Tea and Conversation with Best-Selling Author M. J. Rose

Join us for tea and conversation as Julie Maloney, Director of Women Reading Aloud, conducts an up-close and personal interview with New York Times best-selling author M. J. Rose at Bernardsville Public Library on Sunday, October 29 at 2:00 pm. Her most recent novel, "The Library of Light and Shadow" was published in July. The Washington Post described Ms. Rose as "an unusually skillful storyteller. Her polished prose and intricate plot will grip even the most skeptical reader." Audience members will have a rare opportunity to ask the author questions about her work and her writing process. A book signing will follow the interview; books will be available for purchase.

M. J. Rose grew up in New York City mostly in the labyrinthine galleries of the Metropolitan Museum, the dark tunnels and lush gardens of Central Park, and reading her mother's favorite books before she was allowed. She believes mystery and magic are all around us, but we are too often too busy to notice, and that books that exaggerate this mystery and magic draw attention to it and remind us to look for it and revel in it.
Ms. Rose is the Co-President and founding member of International Thriller Writers and the founder of the first marketing company for authors: AuthorBuzz. She runs the blog, Museum of Mysteries. In 1998, her first novel "Lip Service" was the first e-book and the first self-published novel chosen by the LiteraryGuild/Doubleday Book Club as well as the first e-book to go on to be published by a mainstream New York publishing house.

Ms. Rose has appeared on The Today Show, Fox News, and The Jim Lehrer NewsHour, and features on her have appeared in dozens of magazines and newspapers in the U.S. and abroad, including USA Today, Stern, L'Official, Poets and Writers, and Publishers Weekly.

A graduate of Syracuse University, Ms. Rose spent the 1980s in advertising. She was the Creative Director of Rosenfeld Sirowitz and Lawson, and she has a commercial in the Museum of Modern Art in NYC.

Interviewer Julie Maloney has worked in the arts as a performer and educator her entire life. She is a poet and writer and founder/director of Women Reading Aloud (WRA), a not-for-profit organization that promotes women writers in New Jersey and beyond. WRA holds workshops, special events, writing retreats, conferences and an on-going writing workshop series each spring and fall during which women writers of all genres hone their work in a salon type setting. The annual Writer’s Weekend Retreat is held each April in Sea Girt, NJ. Last June, WRA returned to the island of Alonnisos in the North Sporades for its seventh Writer’s Retreat in Greece and to Languedoc, France for its second retreat. Ms. Maloney is a frequent speaker on “Writing as a Life Tool.” Her debut novel, “A Matter of Chance,” will be published by SheWrites Press in spring, 2018.

There is no charge to attend the program at the library, but advance sign-up is requested. Register online at www.bernardsvillelibrary.org and follow the link from Adult Programs, or call the library at 908-766-0118 to sign up.