Ocean House Author Series
A glass of wine, a delicious bite, and fascinating conversations with exceptional authors! Join Ocean House owner, actress, and bestselling author Deborah Goodrich Royce for this ongoing series which brings you the best and the brightest of the literary world in a spectacular setting overlooking the sea.
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Wednesday Sep 20, 2023
Wednesday Sep 20, 2023
Join Ocean House owner, actor, and bestselling author Deborah Goodrich Royce for a conversation with award-winning author Chris Bohjalian. Bohjalian has written more than 20 books, including The Sandcastle Girls, The Guest Room, and The Flight Attendant, which has been adapted into a hit TV series. Bohjalian will be discussing his latest novel, The Lioness, which became an instant New York Times bestseller upon release and is now a Washington Post and Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2022! For more information or to purchase his books visit chrisbohjalian.com . For more information on Deborah Goodrich Royce and the Ocean House Author Series visit deborahgoodrichroyce.com
Wednesday Sep 06, 2023
Wednesday Sep 06, 2023
Join Ocean House owner, actor, and bestselling author Deborah Goodrich Royce for a conversation with author Karen White to discuss her latest novel The House on Prytania (A Royal Street Novel, Book 2). Karen White is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of 34 books, including the Tradd Street series, The Last Night in London, Dreams of Falling, The Night the Lights Went Out, Flight Patterns, The Sound of Glass, and A Long Time Gone. She is the coauthor of The Lost Summers of Newport, All the Ways We Said Goodbye, The Glass Ocean and The Forgotten Room with New York Times bestselling authors Beatriz Williams and Lauren Willig. She grew up in London but now lives with her husband near Atlanta, Georgia. For more information or to purchase her books visit www.karen-white.com. For more information on Deborah Goodrich Royce and the Ocean House Author Series visit deborahgoodrichroyce.com
Monday Aug 21, 2023
Monday Aug 21, 2023
Join Ocean House owner, actor, and bestselling author Deborah Goodrich Royce for a conversation with novelist Kristy Woodson Harvey, to discuss her latest novel, The Summer of Songbirds. Southern fiction writer Kristy Woodson Harvey is the bestselling author of nine novels including The Wedding Veil and The Peachtree Bluff Series, which is currently in development with NBC with Kristy as co-writer and co-executive producer. Kristy is also a co-founder and co-host of the hit weekly web show and podcast, Friends & Fiction. For more information or to purchase her books visit kristywoodsonharvey.com. For more information on Deborah Goodrich Royce and the Ocean House Author Series visit deborahgoodrichroyce.com
Tuesday Jul 18, 2023
Tuesday Jul 18, 2023
Join Ocean House owner, actor, and bestselling author Deborah Goodrich Royce for a conversation with Avery Carpenter Forrey to discuss her debut novel Social Engagement, set right here in Watch Hill! Avery Carpenter Forrey was a founding team member and Managing Editor at theSkimm, where she co-wrote the #1 NY Times bestseller How to Skimm Your Life, breaking down some of the less glamorous parts of being an adult from personal finance to stress management. For more information or to purchase her books visit www.averycarpenterforrey.com. For more information on Deborah Goodrich Royce and the Ocean House Author Series visit deborahgoodrichroyce.com
Thursday Jul 06, 2023
Thursday Jul 06, 2023
Join Ocean House owner, actor, and bestselling author Deborah Goodrich Royce for a conversation with novelist Katherine Reay to discuss her latest novel, A Shadow in Moscow: A Cold War Novel. Katherine Reay is a national bestselling and award-winning author of several novels. She has enjoyed a lifelong affair with books and history, and brings that love to her stories. Katherine has also written one full-length nonfiction work. She holds a BA and MS from Northwestern University, graduating Phi Beta Kappa, and has lived across the country with a few years in England and Ireland as well. A full-time author and mother of three children, Katherine and her husband currently live outside Chicago, IL. For more information or to purchase her books visit katherinereay.com. For more information on Deborah Goodrich Royce and the Ocean House Author Series visit deborahgoodrichroyce.com
Monday Jun 19, 2023
Monday Jun 19, 2023
Join Ocean House owner, actor, and bestselling author Deborah Goodrich Royce for an enriching conversation with CNN entertainment reporter Chloe Melas. Chloe Melas covers breaking celebrity news, industry analyses and in-depth investigations for the major US news source CNN and has also written the new foreword to her grandfather Frank Murphy’s World War II book, Luck of the Draw: My Story of the Air War in Europe. Melas will discuss her news and novel writing processes alongside refreshments, including wine and light bites. For more information or to purchase the book visit Amazon - Luck of the Draw: My Story of the Air War in Europe. For more information on Deborah Goodrich Royce and the Ocean House Author Series visit deborahgoodrichroyce.com
Friday May 19, 2023
Friday May 19, 2023
Join Ocean House owner, actor, and bestselling author Deborah Goodrich Royce for a conversation with Two Wars and a Wedding author Lauren Willig. Lauren Willig is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of more than twenty works of historical fiction, including Band of Sisters, The Summer Country, The English Wife, the RITA Award-winning Pink Carnation series, and four novels co-written with Beatriz Williams and Karen White. Her books have been translated into over twenty languages, picked for Book of the Month Club, awarded the RITA, Booksellers Best, and Golden Leaf awards, and chosen for the American Library Association’s annual list of the best genre fiction. An alumna of Yale University, she has a graduate degree in history from Harvard and a JD from Harvard Law School. She lives in New York City with her husband, two young children, and vast quantities of coffee. For more information or to purchase her books visit laurenwillig.com. For more information on Deborah Goodrich Royce and the Ocean House Author Series visit deborahgoodrichroyce.com
Deborah Goodrich Royce
Deborah Goodrich Royce’s thrillers examine puzzles of identity. Reef Road hit Publishers Weekly’s Bestseller list, Good Morning America’s Top 15 list, and was an Indie Next pick by the American Bookseller’s Association for January 2023. Ruby Falls won the Zibby Award for Best Plot Twist in 2021 and Finding Mrs. Ford was hailed by Forbes, Book Riot, and Good Morning America’s “best of” lists in 2019.
She began as an actress on All My Children and in multiple films, before transitioning to the role of story editor at Miramax Films, developing Emma and early versions of Chicago and A Wrinkle in Time. With her husband, Chuck, Deborah restored the 1939 Avon Theatre in Stamford, CT. Under her leadership, the Avon hosts an ongoing series of film luminaries, most recently, Mira Nair, Richard Gere and Chloe Sevigny. Together, Deborah and Chuck have restored the Ocean House Hotel, Deer Mountain Inn, United Theatre, Savoy Bookstore, and numerous Main Street revitalization projects in Rhode Island and the Catskills.
The Ocean House Author Series—a salon style conversation that Deborah created in partnership with The Savoy Bookshop & Café—brings world-class authors to readers in the stunning seaside location of Watch Hill, RI. This year, Deborah will talk there with two dozen writers ranging from Chris Bohjalian to Katie Couric. Past authors have included Zibby Owens, Emma Straub, Annabel Monaghan, Zain Asher, and many more.
She serves on the governing and/or advisory boards of the American Film Institute, Avon Theatre, Greenwich International Film Festival, New York Botanical Garden, Greenwich Historical Society, the Preservation Society of Newport, the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach, and the PRASAD Project. Deborah holds a bachelor’s degree in modern foreign languages and an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Lake Erie College.