About this Event
Book Signing Event
Join us on May 11, 2026 at 10:00 AM (Eastern Time) for a fun in-person book signing with author Deborah Levison. She'll be sharing her latest novel, "A Novel Crime". Don't miss this chance to meet Deborah, get your copy signed, and chat about her exciting story. It's a relaxed and friendly event perfect for book lovers!
About the Book:
She wanted to write the perfect novel. Instead, she became the perfect villain.
Struggling romance writer and recent divorcée Marcy Jo Codburn feels like a failure. She’s green with author envy and longing for a book deal, a launch party with cupcakes, and the admiration of her daughter. But her dream of literary success is fading faster than her beige hair dye. When she witnesses celebrated author Francesca Barber in a compromising position, Marcy sees her chance. Transforming into Summer Branigan, her bolder, blonder pen name, she leverages Francesca’s secret to secure the ultimate coauthor.
As their collaboration spirals from Marcy’s modest Connecticut home to Francesca’s lavish Hamptons estate, both women discover that in the cutthroat world of publishing, every story has its price. With looming deadlines, a kidnapping plot gone awry, and more than one fraud to hide, their twisted partnership careens toward a surprise ending neither could have written.
In this darkly comic page-turner, critically acclaimed author Deborah Levison skewers the publishing industry with razor-sharp wit. A Novel Crime asks just how far an aspiring writer will go to see her name on a book jacket―and what happens when the stories we tell start to write themselves.
About the Author:
Debbie's life has two parts: the first in Canada, where she attended the Royal Conservatory of Music and the University of Toronto, and the second in Connecticut, with three children, two doodles, and one husband.
She's an award-winning writer, published in national and international media. Her first book, a nonfiction, true crime about a M**der that involved her family, is THE CRATE, which won seven literary awards. Reviewers commented on the "gorgeous and poetic writing” and New York Journal of Books said it was "a brilliant story." Her first novel, A NEST OF SNAKES, won a CT Press Club award for fiction. Inspired by cases of abuse at elite New England private schools, it has been described as "powerful and raw" and “a roller coaster ride of emotions leading to a staggering climax.”
A NOVEL CRIME, Debbie’s third book, is a crime caper about a romance writer desperate for a bestseller. Readers say it is “wickedly hilarious,” “ingeniously plotted and uproariously funny,” “full of twisty, razor-sharp wit,” with “an ending you’ll be texting your friends about.”
Her dream of storytelling began one summer night by a camp bonfire as she listened to a ghost story: The Monkey's Paw. The memory still makes her shiver.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The BookSmiths Shoppe, 100 Reserve Road, Danbury, United States
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