The Huntsville-Madison County Library Foundation (HMCLF) offers several author events each year to bring awareness to the Huntsville-Madison County Public Library. These events are great opportunities for our community to be entertained by, learn from, and engage in meaningful conversation with best-selling authors of every genre. Author events typically consist of a reading or talk by the author, a question & answer period, and end with a book signing.
Some favorite authors from the recent past include Sean Dietrich, Lisa Wingate, Homer Hickam, and Greg Iles. The Library Foundation loves connecting authors to the great reading community here in Madison County, all while supporting the HMCPL with proceeds from these events.
An Evening with Ashley Winstead
Join us on Wednesday, January 21, at 6:00 p.m. at the Downtown Huntsville Library for An Evening with Ashley Winstead, author of The Future Saints. Ashley will be in conversation with fellow bestselling author, Georgina Cross.
Perfect for fans of Daisy Jones & The Six and In Five Years, The Future Saints is a beautiful, powerful, and transportive new novel about a music executive desperately trying to bring a rock band back from the brink.
Ashley Winstead is the national bestselling author of This Book Will Bury Me, Midnight is the Darkest Hour, The Last Housewife, In My Dreams I Hold a Knife, The Boyfriend Candidate, and Fool Me Once. Her books have been Library Reads picks, Loan Star picks, Best of Amazon picks, Best of Apple Books picks, and have received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, BookPage, and Library Journal.
This is a ticketed event, and each ticket includes a copy of The Future Saints. For more information or to purchase a ticket, click here.
An Evening with Jennifer Moorman
Do you love reading books filled with magical realism and Hallmark-esque rom-com sweetness? If so, you don't want to miss An Afternoon with Jennifer Moorman. With her signature blend of magical and heartfelt storytelling, USA TODAY bestselling author Jennifer Moorman returns with The Charmed Library, a love letter to libraries, favorite childhood stories, and readers who have fallen for fictional heroes.
Join us on Thursday, January 22, at 6:00 p.m. at the South Huntsville Public Library as we sit down with Jennifer and discuss the power of libraries, plot inspiration, and how she brings characters to life.
Jennifer lives in Nashville, Tennessee, and is the bestselling author of the magical realism Mystic Water Series, The Baker’s Man, The Magic All Around, and The Vanishing of Josephine Reynolds.
This is a ticketed event, and each ticket includes a copy of The Charmed Library. There will be a book signing following the conversation. For more information or to purchase a ticket, please click here.
An Afternoon with Terah Shelton Harris
We're thrilled to host Terah Shelton Harris on Sunday, February 15, at 2:00 p.m. at the Downtown Huntsville Library as we celebrate her new release, Where the Wildflowers Grow.
Just like Terah's other novels, Where the Wildflowers Grow is thought-provoking and heartfelt. This novel is a poignant story of survival and redemption that questions what it means to stop existing and start living.
Terah is an author and former librarian who now writes fiction with bittersweet endings. She is the author of One Summer in Savannah and Long After We Are Gone. Her books have been chosen as a Target Book Club pick, LibraryReads pick, Kobo Best Book, Together We Read pick, Publisher’s Marketplace Buzz Book, and a Goodreads Choice Awards nominee for Best Debut. Terah was also named Target’s first Author of the Year. Where the Wildflowers Grow is her third novel, releasing in February 2026.
This is a ticketed event, and each ticket includes a copy of Where the Wildflowers Grow. There will be a book signing following the conversation. For more information or to purchase a ticket, please click here.
An Afternoon with ReShonda Tate
Celebrate the upcoming release of With Love From Harlem with us as we welcome ReShonda Tate to the North Huntsville Public Library on Saturday, February 21, at 2:00 p.m.
From The Queen of Sugar Hill author ReShonda Tate, With Love from Harlem is a new novel inspired by beloved Harlem jazz performer Hazel Scott and the equal parts exhilarating and tumultuous relationship that changed the course of her life. Set against the pulsing backdrop of twentieth-century Harlem and featuring icons like Billie Holiday, Langston Hughes, and James Baldwin, With Love from Harlem is a sweeping, emotionally charged romantic drama, rich with historical detail. She delivers a powerful portrait of love, art, and the price of being unforgettable.
As the national bestselling author of more than 50 books, ReShonda Tate has the credentials and the passion to bring stories to life. She writes both adult and teen fiction as well as nonfiction. Her sophomore novel, Let the Church Say Amen, was made into a film directed by actress Regina King and produced by TD Jakes and Queen Latifah.
This is a ticketed event, and each ticket includes a copy of With Love from Harlem. There will be a book signing following the conversation. For more information or to purchase a ticket, please click here.
An Evening with Rachel Hawkins
Join us at the South Huntsville Public Library for a discussion and book signing, celebrating Rachel Hawkins's new novel, The Storm, on February 23, at 6:00 p.m.
The Storm by Rachel Hawkins is a Southern gothic thriller about a decades-old murder in the hurricane-prone town of St. Medard's Bay, Alabama, centered around the historic Rosalie Inn. The plot follows true-crime writer August Fletcher and the woman accused of the murder, Lo Bailey, as they return to the inn to write her story, uncovering buried secrets as another hurricane approaches.
Rachel Hawkins is the New York Times bestselling author of The Wife Upstairs, Reckless Girls, The Villa, The Heiress, and The Storm, as well as multiple books for young readers. Her work has been translated into over a dozen languages. She studied gender and sexuality in Victorian literature at Auburn University and currently lives in Alabama.
This is a ticketed event, and each ticket includes a copy of The Storm. There will be a book signing following the conversation. For more information or to purchase a ticket, please click here.
An Afternoon with James Rollins
Join us at the South Huntsville Public Library for a discussion and book signing, celebrating James Rollins's new novel, Trust No One, on Sunday, March 1 at 2:00 p.m.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling master of international intrigue comes a shocking new stand-alone thriller that thrusts a group of university students, falsely accused of murder, into a treacherous hunt across Europe, all to unlock the secrets buried within a centuries-old book that could change humankind forever.
Knowledge can be magic—until it falls into the wrong hands.
James Rollins is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of international thrillers that have been translated into more than forty languages. His Sigma series has been lauded as one of the “top crowd pleasers” (New York Times) and one of the “hottest summer reads” (People magazine). In each novel, acclaimed for its originality, Rollins unveils unseen worlds, scientific breakthroughs, and historical secrets—and he does it all at breakneck speed and with stunning insight. He lives in the Sierra Nevada.
This is a ticketed event, and each ticket includes a copy of Trust No One. There will be a book signing following the conversation. For more information or to purchase a ticket, please click here.
An Evening with Joshilyn Jackson
Join us at the South Huntsville Public Library for a discussion and book signing in celebration of Joshilyn Jackson's new novel, Missing Sister, on Tuesday, March 3, at 6:00 p.m.
From the New York Times bestselling author of Never Have I Ever comes a chilling story of sisters and revenge.
Revenge...It's all relative.
Twins Penny and Nix Albright were inseparable until Nix’s tragic death left Penny with haunting questions. Five years later, now a rookie cop, Penny is called to her first murder scene—only to discover the victim is a man she’s long blamed for her sister’s death. When a mysterious woman claims the killing is part of a larger story about sisters, Penny is pulled into a dangerous pursuit where justice, vengeance, and grief collide.
New York Times and USA Today bestselling novelist Joshilyn Jackson’s books have been translated into a dozen languages and have received numerous honors, including SIBA’s Novel of the Year Award; multiple #1 Book Sense and Indie Next selections; Georgia Author of the Year (twice); a Top Ten finalist spot in the Goodreads Choice Awards; selections for the Target and Books-A-Million Book Clubs; four shortlistings for the Townsend Prize for Fiction; finalist recognition for the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction; and the Patricia Winn Award for Southern Fiction. She lives in upstate New York with her family and a motley crew of black and white animals.
This is a ticketed event, and each ticket includes a copy of Missing Sister. There will be a book signing following the conversation. For more information or to purchase a ticket, please click here.
