VIRTUAL - The Joys of Research with Bestselling Author Kerri Maher

Have you ever wondered how to integrate “truth” into your fiction? Do you love to read historical fiction and wonder if you could write it yourself? Do you have an idea for a novel that requires research, and you don’t know where to start? This workshop with bestselling historical novelist Kerri Maher is for you! She loves research as much as she loves writing, and she’s designed a workshop for writers at all stages of their journey to seamlessly implement facts into their fiction.

This is a virtual program. Please register to receive your Zoom link!

About Kerri Maher:

I wrote my first unfinished novel in fifth grade, so I’ve been at this a long time. I wrote my first completed novel after college when I was 22, and I wrote 4 more novels before The Kennedy Debutante sold in 2017 when I was 42. So yes, that was twenty years and 5 unpublished novels before I “made it.” I wouldn’t change a thing – and if you’re an aspiring writer reading this, take heart, I believe in you. If you’re looking for advice, may I recommend my first published book, which is actually a memoir: This Is Not a Writing Manual: Notes for the Young Writer in the Real World – you don’t have to be a young writer to read it, I promise!

​Since Kennedy, I’ve been lucky enough to publish 4 books with Berkley of Penguin Random House, with a 5th on the way: Summer of Love, which will come out the summer of 2026.

Learn more about Kerri Maher on her website here. 

This program is hosted by the Cary Memorial Library and was generously shared with us to offer to our patrons.