# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Meet the Author
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 14 Aug, 2025 at 05:00 pm – Thu, 14 Aug, 2025 at 07:00 pm
- **Event Description**: ?✨ Join Us for a Special Evening with Local Author Maggie Beckstrand! ✨?

We’re thrilled to invite you to a book signing and reading event celebrating the release of Grey Sea Rising, the debut novel by local indie author Maggie Beckstrand, on ? Thursday, August 14th from 5:00–7:00 PM at the Lewiston Library.
 
Maggie Jane Beckstrand is an author, soft pastel artist, and traditional book binder with an old soul and a deep love for history, storytelling, and the quiet beauty of handmade things. She is the founder of Maggie Jane Studio and The Eva LaPrele Bindery, where she creates with words, soft pastels, and vintage-inspired, heirloom-quality, hand-bound journals meant to be treasured for generations.

Maggie grew up in North Logan, Utah and her love for storytelling began in childhood, nurtured by bedtime stories read aloud by her mother and spent her days writing tales in spiral notebooks. She won her first writing awards starting at the age of seven at the Cache County and Utah State fairs, won multiple awards throughout her school career, and has been chasing the magic of a well-told story ever since.

Her novel, set against the stormy 1942 coast of Maine, Grey Sea Rising is a nostalgic, character-driven mystery steeped in wartime secrets, deep friendship, and small-town intrigue. Follow the journey of an artist and a baker—two best friends—whose quiet harbor town is shaken when a stolen painting resurfaces, unearthing a long-buried truth.


✨ Event Highlights:

•Meet the author and hear about her inspiration behind the story

•Enjoy a live reading from Grey Sea Rising

•Purchase a signed copy of the book

•Celebrate and support local literature!

? This event is FREE and open to all

Bring a friend, and settle in for a night of mystery, memory, and Maine.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/lewiston/meet-the-author/200028602659237
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, fine-arts, storytelling
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 13

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Lewiston
- **state**: UT
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Lewiston Public Library
- **lat**: 41.97528
- **long**: -111.85638
- **full address**: Lewiston Public Library, 29 S Main St,Lewiston, Utah, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Meet the Author being held?
  - **A:** Meet the Author takes place on Thu, 14 Aug, 2025 at 05:00 pm to Thu, 14 Aug, 2025 at 07:00 pm at Lewiston Public Library, 29 S Main St,Lewiston, Utah, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Meet the Author?
  - **A:** Meet the Author is organized by Lewiston Public Library.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Meet the Author is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Lewiston, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Meet the Author sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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