Ocean House Author Series

A glass of wine, a delicious bite, and fascinating conversations with exceptional authors-join me for this ongoing series which brings you the best and the brightest of the literary world in a spectacular setting overlooking the sea.

With Fiona Davis

With Victoria Christopher Murray

With Lisa Unger

With Luanne Rice

With Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York

With Katie Couric

With Emma Straub

With Annabel Monaghan

With Bill Miller

With John Kuhns

With Katie Mahon & Joan Hill

With Amanda Faribanks

With Zain Asher

With Zibby Owens

With the Thriller Panel

With Mary Alice Monroe

With Lauren Willig, Beatriz Williams, & Karen White

Upcoming Events

October 25, 2026

Thriller Panel & Brunch w/ Diane Josefowicz, Wendy Walker, Lauren Willig, and Laura Zigman

11:30 am ET

$45/person

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Past Events 2026

September 2, 2026

Ocean House Author Series w/ Mary Kay Andrews

5:00 pm ET

$45/person

August 26, 20226

Ocean House Author Series w/ Allison Pataki

5:00 pm ET

$45/person

August 19, 2026

Ocean House Author Series w/ Donna Freitas

5:00 pm ET

$45/person

August 12, 2026

Ocean House Author Series w/ Chris Bohjalian

5:00 pm ET

$45/person

August 5, 2026

Ocean House Author Series w/ Ruta Sepetys

5:00 pm ET

$45/person

July 22, 2026

Ocean House Author Series w/ Don Winslow

5:00 pm ET

$45/person

July 16, 2026

In Conversation w/ Jenna Bush Hager, Debra Curtis & Shannon Garvey

5:00 pm ET

July 8, 2026

Ocean House Author Series w/ Beatriz Williams

5:00 pm ET

$45/person

July 1, 2026

Ocean House Author Series w/ Luanne Rice

5:00 pm ET

$45/person

June 24, 2026

Ocean House Author Series w/ Annabel Monaghan

5:00 pm ET

$45/person

May 27, 2026

Ocean House Author Series w/ Katherine Center

6:00 pm ET

$45/person

April 16, 2026

Ocean House Author Series w/ Belle Burden

6:00 pm ET

$45/person

Past Events 2025

November 22, 2025

Lifestyle Design Panel by Deborah Goodrich Royce

With Genevieve Wheeler Brown, Amanda Reynal, Christopher Spitzmiller, & Ashley Whittaker

4:00 pm ET

$35/person

October 26, 2025

Ocean House Author Series Thriller Panel

With Deborah Goodrich Royce, Christa Carmen, Karen Dukess, Vanessa Lillie, Kristin Offiler and Tessa Wegert

11:30 am ET

$45/person

September 3, 2025

Ocean House Author Series w/ Sarah McCoy

6:00pm - 8:00pm ET

$45/person

August 27, 2025

Ocean House Author Series w/ Karen White

5:00pm - 6:30pm ET

$45/person

August 20, 2025

Ocean House Author Series w/ Wilbur Ross

5:00pm - 7:00pm ET

$45/person

August 13, 2025

Ocean House Author Series w/ Lisa Genova

6:00pm - 7:30pm ET

$45/person

August 6, 2025

Ocean House Author Series w/ Beatriz Williams

5:00pm - 7:00pm ET

$45/person

July 23, 2025

Ocean House Author Series w/ Jessa Maxwell

5:00pm - 6:30pm ET

$45/person

July 16, 2025

Ocean House Author Series w/ Victoria Christopher Murray

5:00pm - 6:30pm ET

$45/person

July 9, 2025

Ocean House Author Series w/ Mary Alice Monroe

5:00pm - 6:30pm ET

$45/person

July 2, 2025

Ocean House Author Series w/ Jim Pierce

5:00pm - 6:30pm ET

$45/person

May 21, 2025

Ocean House Author Series w/ Fiona Davis

6:00pm - 7:30pm ET

$45/person

April 23, 2025

Ocean House Author Series w/ Lisa Unger

6:00pm - 7:30pm ET

$45/person

Past Events 2024

December 12, 2024

The Author’s Guide to Murder

With Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White (aka “Team W”)
6:00pm - 8:00pm
$45/person

October 27, 2024

Thriller Panel Brunch w/ Liv Constantine, Sara DiVello, Juliet Grames, Elise Hart Kipness, Jean Kwok, & Luanne Rice

11:30am - 1:30pm ET
$45/person

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September 16, 2024

Ocean House Author Series w/Meghan Riordan Jarvis and Catherine Newman

Event is in conjunction with Bank Square Books

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm ET

$45/person
(INCLUDES BOOK)

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August 28, 2024

Ocean House Author Series w/ Annabel Monaghan & Alix Strauss

5:00 pm-7:00 pm ET

$45/person

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August 26, 2024

Ocean House Author Series w/ Jenny Jackson

5:00 pm-7:00 pm ET

$45/person

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August 21, 2024

Ocean House Author Series w/ Patricia Walsh Chadwick

5:00 pm-7:00 pm ET

$45/person

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August 19, 2024

Ocean House Author Series w/ Moya Hession-Aiken & Elizabeth Birkelund

5:00 pm-7:00 pm ET

$45/person

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August 14, 2024

Ocean House Author Series w/ Hank Phillippi Ryan & Carola Lovering

5:00 pm-7:00 pm ET

$45/person

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August 12, 2024

Ocean House Author Series w/ Martha Hall Kelly & Katherine Reay

5:00 pm-7:00 pm ET

$45/person

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August 7, 2024

Ocean House Author Series w/ Terah Shelton Harris

5:00 pm-7:00 pm ET

$45/person

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August 5, 2024

Ocean House Author Series w/
Ann Hood

5:00 pm ET

July 24, 2024

Ocean House Author Series w/ Sarah Ferguson

5:00 pm-7:00 pm ET

$45/person

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July 22, 2024

Ocean House Author Series w/ Allison Pataki & Emily Franklin

5:00 pm-7:00 pm ET

$45/person

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July 17, 2024

Ocean House Author Series w/ Beatriz Williams

5:00 pm-7:00 pm ET

$45/person

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July 15, 2024

Ocean House Author Series w/ Zibby Owens

5:00 pm-7:00 pm ET

$45/person

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July 10, 2024

Ocean House Author Series w/ Dawn Tripp

5:00 pm-7:00 pm ET

$45/person

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July 8, 2024

Ocean House Author Series w/ Kristy Woodson Harvey

5:00 pm-7:00 pm ET

$45/person

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July 1, 2024

Ocean House Author Series w/ Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg

5:00 pm-7:00 pm ET

$45/person

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May 22, 2024

Ocean House Author Series w/ Elliot Ackerman & Joanne Leedom-Ackerman

5:00 pm-7:00 pm ET

$45/person

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April 24, 2024

Ocean House Author Series w/ Susannah Marren, Laura Zigman, & Dara Levan

5:00 pm-7:00 pm ET

$45/person

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March 20, 2024

Ocean House Author Series w/ Jeffrey Blount

5:00 pm ET

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Past Events 2023

December 6, 2023

Ocean House Author Series w/ Luanne Rice

5:00 pm-7:00 pm ET

$38/person

November 8, 2023

Ocean House Author Series w/ Dr. Renee Alsarraf

5:00-7:00 pm ET

$35/person

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November 1, 2023

Ocean House Author Series w/Julie Gerstenblatt

Deborah Goodrich Royce is joined by
novelist Julie Gerstenblatt to discuss
her debut novel, Daughters of Nantucket

5:00-7:00 pm ET

$38/person

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October 1, 2023

Thriller Panel and Brunch with Peter Swanson, Rea Frey, Vanessa Lillie, Wendy Walker & Megan Collins

11:30 am-1:00 pm ET

$38/person

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September 6, 2023

Ocean House Author Series w/Ann Hood & Michael Ruhlman

5:00pm-7:00pm ET

$38/person

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August 30, 2023

Ocean House Author Series w/Victoria Christopher Murray

5:00-7:00 pm ET

$35/person

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August 23, 2023

Summer Reads Author Panel

5:00pm-7:00pm ET

$38/person

August 21, 2023

Ocean House Author Series w/Katie Couric

5:00-7:00 pm ET

$35/person

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August 16, 2023

Ocean House Author Series w/Karen White

5:00-7:00 pm ET

$38/person

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August 9, 2023

Ocean House Author Series w/Annabel Monaghan

5:00-7:00 pm ET

$35/person

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August 7, 2023

Ocean House Author Series w/Patti Callahan Henry

5:00-7:00 pm ET

$38/person

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August 2, 2023

Ocean House Author Series w/Chris Bohjalian

5:00-7:00 pm ET

$35/person

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July 31, 2023

Ocean House Author Series w/Beatriz Williams

5:00-7:00 pm ET

$38/person

July 19, 2023

Ocean House Author Series: Deborah Goodrich Royce and Robin Kall in Conversation on Reef Road

5:00-6:30 pm ET

$35/person

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July 12, 2023

Ocean House Author Series w/Kristy Woodson Harvey

6:00-7:00 pm ET

$38/person

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July 10, 2023

Ocean House Author Series w/Avery Carpenter Forrey

5:00-7:00 pm ET

$36/person

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July 3, 2023

Ocean House Author Series: These Americans by Will Vogt

5:00-6:30 pm ET

$75/person

June 28, 2023

Ocean House Author Series w/Katherine Reay

5:00-7:00 pm ET

$35/person

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April‌ 28, 2023

Ocean House Author Series w/Chloe Melas

5:00pm - 7:00pm ET

$30/person

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April‌ 12, 2023

Ocean House Author Series w/Lauren Willig

5:00pm - 7:00pm ET‌

$38/person

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Past Events 2022

December 7, 2022

In conversation with Serena Burdick, author of The Stolen Book of Evelyn Aubrey

In Person
$28/person

5:00-7:00 pm ET

October 17, 2022

In conversation with Jane Green, author of Sister Stardust

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm ET
In Person

$32/person

September 25, 2022

Thriller Panel with Deborah Goodrich Royce

Deborah Goodrich Royce will moderate a discussion with authors, Luanne Rice, Casey Sherman, Aggie Blum Thompson, Stewart O’Nan, and John Searles

11:30 am to 1:30 pm ET
In Person

$25/person

September 21, 2022

In conversation with Bill Miller about his novel, Steel City, A Story of Pittsburgh

5:00 pm ET
In Person
Ocean House Summer Author Series with the Savoy Bookshop

$35/person

September 7, 2022

In Conversation with Joan Hill and Katie Mahon About Their Novel, The Miracle Collectors

5:00 - 6:30 pm ET
In Person
Ocean House Summer Author Series with the Savoy Bookshop

$35/person

August 31, 2022

In conversation with Zibby Owens about her memoir, Bookends

5:00 - 6:30 pm ET
In Person
Ocean House Summer Author Series with the Savoy Bookshop

$35/person

August 24, 2022

In conversation with Annabel Monaghan about her novel, Nora Goes Off Script

5:00 - 7:00 pm ET
In Person
Ocean House Summer Author Series with the Savoy Bookshop

$35/person

August 17, 2022

In conversation with Mary Dixie Carter, author of The Photographer

5:00 - 7:00 pm ET
In Person
Ocean House Summer Author Series with the Savoy Bookshop

$25/person

August 10, 2022

In conversation with Zain Asher about her memoir, Where The Children Take Us, How One Family Achieved The Unimaginable

5:00 - 7:00 pm ET
In Person
Ocean House Summer Author Series with the Savoy Bookshop

$35/person

July 20, 2022

In conversation with John Kuhns about his novel, They Call Me Ishmael

5:00 - 7:00 pm ET
In Person
Ocean House Summer Author Series with the Savoy Bookshop

$38/person

July 13, 2022

In conversation with Amanda M. Fairbanks about her book, The Lost Boys of Montauk

5:00 - 6:30 pm ET
In Person
Ocean House Summer Author Series with the Savoy Bookshop

$25/person

July 6, 2022

In conversation with Carola Lovering about her novel, Can’t Look Away

5:00 - 7:00 pm ET
In Person
Ocean House Summer Author Series with the Savoy Bookshop

$35/person

June 29, 2022

In conversation with Emma Straub About her novel, This Time Tomorrow

5:00 - 7:00 pm ET
In Person
Ocean House Summer Author Series with the Savoy Bookshop

$35/person

June 22, 2022

In conversation with Mary Alice Monroe about her novel, The Summer of Lost & Found

5:00 pm ET
In Person
Ocean House Summer Author Series with the Savoy Bookshop

May 16, 2022

In conversation with Beatriz Williams, Karen White, and Lauren Willig to celebrate the launch of Lost Summers of Newport

6:00 pm ET
In Person
Ocean House Summer Author Series with the Savoy Bookshop

2021

October 30, 2021

Thriller Fiction Panel at Ocean House

3:30pm - 5:30pm
$25/person
(plus taxes and fees)

August 25, 2021

Ocean House Summer 2021 Author Series

Deborah Goodrich Royce and Robin Kall
in Conversation about Ruby Falls
5:00pm - 6:30pm
Price: $30/person
(plus taxes and fees)

August 11, 2021

Ocean House Summer 2021 Author Series

All The Ways We Said Goodbye
by Karen White, Lauren Willig & Beatriz Williams

August 4, 2021

Ocean House Summer 2021 Author Series

Haven Point by Virginia Hume
5:00pm - 6:30pm
Price: $30/person
(plus taxes and fees)

July 21, 2021

Ocean House Summer 2021 Author Series

Summertime Guests by Wendy Francis
5:00pm - 6:30pm
$20/person
(plus taxes and fees)

July 7, 2021

Ocean House Summer 2021 Author Series

Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams
5:00pm - 6:30pm
Price: $30/person
(plus taxes and fees)

June 24, 2021

Author Talk & Book Signing

Deborah Goodrich Royce will be in conversation with author, Luanne Rice

To Benefit
Literacy Volunteers of Washington County

5:00 pm