An Evening with Meg Waite Clayton, Author of Typewriter Beach

“An irresistible story of 1950s Hollywood,” Publishers Weekly raves of Typewriter Beach. “Readers will be riveted.”

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* Unless otherwise noted on an event flyer, you have two ticketing options: a ticket that includes a copy of the book being featured at the event, or a ticket that includes a $10 Mermaid Books gift card that may be used at any time.

* Our Author Talks series include an audience Q&A, followed by a signing. Additional copies of our featured books will be available for purchase PRIOR to the start of the Q&A, or after the Q&A has concluded and the signing has begun. *We recommend that our visitors buy their books beforehand to streamline their signing experience.*

* Our Author Talks are slated for one hour. Please arrive on time to help us stay on schedule.

* The health and safety of our guests are important to us. Masks are encouraged but not required. If you are not feeling well, please refrain from attending.

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Set in Carmel-by-the-Sea and 1950s Hollywood, Typewriter Beach is an unforgettable story about love and friendship, ideas and ideals, passion and persistence, and family.

Six decades after her screenwriter grandfather was blacklisted at the peak of the McCarthy era, Gemma Chazan, 26, also a screenwriter, arrives in Carmel after his passing to settle his affairs. It should’ve been a straightforward task. But when she gets to his cottage, she finds a safe full of secrets — uncovering a chapter of his life she never knew about, including his unlikely friendship with a promising young actress poised for fame until a personal crisis threatened her career.

“An irresistible story of 1950s Hollywood,” Publishers Weekly raves in a starred review. “Readers will be riveted.”

Join us for a reading, Q&A, and book signing with the author Wednesday, August 6th, at 6:30pm.

About Meg Waite Clayton:

New York Times bestseller and book club favorite Meg Waite Clayton is the author of nine novels, most recently the instant USA Today bestseller and the international bestsellers and Her books have been featured on Good Morning America and the New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice list, and in People and other newspapers and magazines all over the world. They have been IndieNext, Library Reads, LoanStars librarians, USA Today, Book of the Month Club, Costco and Target Book Club, and Amazon Editors’ picks, as well as finalists for the National Jewish Book Award, the Langum Prize, and Barbara Kingsolver’s Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. Her The Wednesday Sisters is one of Entertainment Weekly’s 25 Essential Best Friend Novels of all time. Clayton’s books have been published in 24 languages. Her screenplay for The Last Train to London was chosen for the Meryl Streep- and Nicole Kidman-sponsored The Writers Lab.

Meg’s novels draw on the history of real women facing the kinds of challenges women face, and women defying the odds to make differences, large and small, in the world. Inspirations include Mary Jayne Gold, Truus Wijsmuller, Beatrix Potter, Martha Gellhorn, and other journalists and photographers, and the women of Hollywood past and present.

Meg also writes for major newspapers, magazines, and public radio, mentors in the OpEd Project, and is a member of the National Book Critics Circle, PEN, and the California bar. She divides her time between California and Connecticut.

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